Quotes about boo
book way death-and-dying
That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in the middle of your life, in the middle of a sentence John Green
book challenges conversation
How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked. “Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.
book character simple
I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books are not in the business of creating merely likeable characters with whom you can have some simple identification with. Books are in the business of creating great stories that make you're brain go ahhbdgbdmerhbergurhbudgerbudbaaarr.
book writing years
In retrospect Hank I don't know why I spent four years writing this book when I could have just made a hit sing-a-ma-jig album.
book knowing people
All along — not only since she left, but for a decade before — I had been imagining her without listening, without knowing that she made as a poor a window as I did. And so I could not imagine her as a person who could feel fear, who could feel isolated in a roomful of people, who could be shy about her record collection because it was too personal to share. Someone who might have read travel books to escape having to live in the town that so many people escape to. Someone who — because no one thought she was a person — had no one to really talk to.
book eye parent
Radar threw his books into his locker and shut it. Then the din of conversation around us quieted just a bit as he turned his eyes toward the heavens and shouted, "IT IS NOT MY FAULT THAT MY PARENTS OWN THE WORLD'S LARGEST COLLECTION OF BLACK SANTAS.
book favourite favourite-book
I don't have a favourite book, I have hundreds.
book writing people
I'm not interested in writing for adults. I like them as people! I don't like the way they publish books in that world. Nothing ever gets a chance.
book thinking squirrels
I don't think we should see the world of books as fundamentally separate from the world of the Internet. Yes, the Internet contains a lot of videos of squirrels riding skateboards, but it can also be a place that facilitates big conversations about books.
book reviews used
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books.
book online conversation
I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.
book reading together
I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that's made by one person, but that's not true. Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the reader and the writer who are making the story up together.
book tweet
Books are like tweets, except longer.
book reading creating
In the end, what makes a book valuable is not the paper it's printed on, but the thousands of hours of work by dozens of people who are dedicated to creating the best possible reading experience for you.
book reading winning
Whether the author intended a symbolic resonance to exist in her book is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it's there. Because the book does not exist for the benefit of the author, the book exists for the benefit of YOU. If we as readers can have a bigger and richer experience with the world as a result of reading a symbol and that symbol wasn't intended by the author, WE STILL WIN.
book recalls finished
As I recall, you promised to CALL when you finished the book, not text.
book thinking people
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...
book numbers phones
How about I call you when I finish this?” “But you don’t even have my phone number,” he said. “I strongly suspect you wrote it in the book.” He broke out into that goofy smile. “A nd you say we don’t know each other.
book writing rocks
I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work. Patti Smith
book want catalogues
I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.
book oregon towns
I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.
book childhood world
I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.
book rocks rock-n-roll
I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation ...
book writing shelves
I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
book reading thinking
To live fully your well-read life -at any age- it is essential to take your selection of books seriously. When you drift from book to book, you're lulled into thinking that this lack of focus is right and natural - but it's as wrong as can be. Some serendipity in your reading is delightful, but if you wanted to build a house, would you wait for the materials to assemble themselves? - Steve Leveen Pat Williams
book reading pleasure
Books of quotations ... afford me one of the most undemanding but satisfying forms of reading pleasure. P. D. James
book character animal
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. P. J. O'Rourke
book pages lasts
Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written? Mary Ritter Beard
book mirrors sight
Books are like blankets, the mere sight of them around the house provides warmth and comfort. They are like mirrors, too, reflecting places I've been, phases I've been through, people I've loved or thought I did. Mary Schmich
book stuff topics
The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff. Mary Roach
book people disrespectful
Many people will find this book disrespectful. There is nothing amusing about being dead, they will say. Ah, but there is.
book research obsession
All good research-whether for science or for a book-is a form of obsession.
book writing thinking
You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.