Quotes about boo
book reading scotland
It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element. Irvine Welsh
book writing class
Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
book failure years
I live, I live, with an absolutely continuous sense of failure. I am always defeated, always. Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea. The years pass and one has only one life. If one has a thing at all one must do it and keep on and on and on trying to do it better. Iris Murdoch
book fire anxiety
any writer is inevitably going to work with his own anxieties and desires. If the book is any good it has got to have in it the fire of a personal unconscious mind.
book writing ideas
Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea.
book writing people
I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read. Imre Kertesz
book past years
Mankind in Amnesia has to do not only with the past, like my other books -- primarily it has to do with the future, a future not removed by thousands or tens of thousands of years, but the imminent future, on whose threshold we now stand. Immanuel Velikovsky
book interesting people
You know, a documentary is only interesting once in a while. If you look at a whole book of Dorothea [Lange]'s where she has row after row of people bending over and digging out carrots - that can be very tedious. And so it's only once in a while that something happens that is worth doing. Imogen Cunningham
book eye blood
I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice. Ilka Chase
book kids guy
I'm not a big guy and hopefully kids could look at me and see that I'm not muscular and not physically imposing, that I'm just a regular guy. So if somebody with a regular body can get into the record books, kids can look at that. That would make me happy. Ichiro Suzuki
book philosophical mean
Scholars of the East and West have heroically consecrated their whole working lives to making available, by means of their own disciplines, Sufi literary and philosophical material to the world at large. In many cases they have faithfully recorded the Sufis' own reiteration that the Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning. Idries Shah
book mean way
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
book long people
Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
book cry ends
I cry at the end of every book. Hunter Parrish
book deals knows
Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn. Huston Smith
book courses
Of course. You get everything from books. Gregory Maguire
book years wicked
I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.
book fall writing
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be.
book lasts next
I just finished my 11th book last week, so I'm ready to start the next one. Gloria Stuart
book artist type
I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
book writing people
When I'm traveling to promote my book, I feel like an artful impostor. What I really am is when I'm in my (painter's) studio and when I'm writing. With actors, it's the same thing. They're kind of artful impostors in public. When you get to know them, they're different people. Gloria Vanderbilt
book divorce given
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. Gloria Swanson
book
Most books are bought by women. Gloria Steinem
book men law
Society definitely encourages and condones men's violence toward women. Not as much as it used to be when it was less visible, and there were still laws on the books that made it alright for men to beat their wives, as long as it was within certain limits, and women were chattel.
book reading news
For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.
book past church-service
...the Bible itself is less read than preached, less interpreted than brandished. Increasingly, pastors may drape a limply bound Book over the edges of the pulpit as they depart from it. Members of the congregation carry Bibles to church services; the paster announces a long passage text for his sermon and waits for people to find it, then reads only the first verse of it before he takes off. The Book has become a talisman. Harold Bloom
book dark age
Some of our newspapers and magazines are more concerned with the welfare of their advertisers than they are with the dissemination of news and the discussion of matters of lasting importance. ...Radio, television, motion pictures, popular books - all contribute...to...the stifling of dissent on all but the most banal levels. ...a renunciation of the most basic and precious of democratic principles. J. Paul Getty
book school character
The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them. J. Michael Straczynski
book hunting people
When a book of mine comes out, I instantly go hunting the net, not for praise, but for criticism, because that's how you learn, from people who don't have to be polite to you.
book different
A movie is a movie and a book is a book, and they have different rules.
book benefits individual
I'm all for crossovers if they benefit the individual books.
book men racing
I want to have time. When you're doing a monthly book, you're like a man racing after a bus. You're breathless and red-faced. I want to build in quality control.
book men spiders
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.