Quotes about boo
book ideas doe
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. Margaret Mahy
book thinking two
At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction. Margaret Mahy
book reading people
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If you can’t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading. Michael Jackson
book other-worlds people
I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books. Michael Jackson
book mean hard-work
In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean, work like there's no tomorrow. Train. Strive. I mean, really train and cultivate your talent to the highest degree. Be the best at what you do. Get to know more about your field than anybody alive. Use the tools of your trade, if it's books or a floor to dance on or a body of water to swim in. Whatever it is, it's yours. Michael Jackson
book people rooms
Sometimes you walk out of an audition and you kind of know you nailed it and you're probably going to book it, but you very rarely are told in the room by the people who are hiring you. Michael Cudlitz
book betrayed want
If you've really loved a book, or a movie for that matter, really loved it, what you want is that same book again, but as if you've never read it. And when you get something unfamiliar, you feel betrayed. Michael Cunningham
book kissing first-kiss
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. Michael Cunningham
book writing artist
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things. Michael Cunningham
book writing secret
Here's a secret. Many novelists, if they are pressed and if they are being honest, will admit that the finished book is a rather rough translation of the book they'd intended to write. Michael Cunningham
book tired world
She is, above all else, tired; she wants more than anything to return to her bed and her book. The world, this world, feels suddenly stunned and stunted, far from everything. Michael Cunningham
book years needs
I encourage the translators of my books to take as much license as they feel that they need. This is not quite the heroic gesture it might seem, because I've learned, from working with translators over the years, that the original novel is, in a way, a translation itself. Michael Cunningham
book dark fire
You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. Michael Cunningham
book school years
Virginia Woolf's great novel, 'Mrs. Dalloway,' is the first great book I ever read. I read it almost by accident when I was in high school, when I was 15 years old. Michael Cunningham
book paper matter
I know, speaking for myself, no matter what I'm able to do, no matter what book comes out and ends up on paper, I always had something bigger and grander in my head. Michael Cunningham
book giving parent
You want to give him the book of his own life, the book that will locate him, parent him, arm him for the changes. Michael Cunningham
book reading writing
One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper. Michael Cunningham
book writing gone
Writing a book is a bit like going on location for a movie. You're absent from your life, your family, and your friends. You're psychologically gone, so you might as well be physically gone. Michael Crichton
book writing done
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it. Michael Crichton
book years eight
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that. Method Man
book perfect detours
I don't see love as some perfect happily ever after thing like it is in books and movies. It's more like a bumpy road filled with potholes...and detours. Sometimes we even veer off into the ditch. But the places that road will take you, the things you'll experience, are worth all of the uncertainty.
book years identity
To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity. Melissa Gilbert
book ink-and-paper design
I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood ... the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book. Michel de Montaigne
book learning study
I leaf through books, I do not study them. What I retain of them is something I no longer recognize as anyone else's. Michel de Montaigne
book character winning
To compose our character is our duty, not to compose books, and to win, not battles and provinces, but order and tranquility in our conduct. Our great and glorious masterpiece is to live appropriately. All other things, ruling, hoarding, building, are only little appendages and props, at most. Michel de Montaigne
book reading honest
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. Michel de Montaigne
book fool good-book
Every abridgement of a good book is a fool abridged. Michel de Montaigne
book matter
I am myself the matter of my book. Michel de Montaigne
book health loss
Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things we have, let us give it over. I, for my part, am one of those who think no fruit derived from them can recompense so great a loss. Michel de Montaigne
book exercise doe
The study of books is a drowsy and feeble exercise which does not warm you up. Michel de Montaigne
book boys hands
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum. Michel de Montaigne
book reading world
All the world knows me in my book, and my book in me. Michel de Montaigne
book treasure enjoy
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please. Michel de Montaigne