Quotes about boo
book years names
If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher. Dean Koontz
book past years
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. Dean Koontz
book people mind
Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all those things, as well—and more, because their stories haven’t yet been completely told. Dean Koontz
book heaven kitchen
I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books. Dean Koontz
book writing ideas
But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, it’s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You can’t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book. Dean Koontz
book kids house
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. Dean Koontz
book self careers
I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book. Dean Koontz
book way way-to-live
Books showed me that there were other ways to live a life. Dean Koontz
book writing boredom
Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen. Dean Koontz
book skeletons littles
I build a book the way coral reefs are built: millions of little calcareous skeletons piling up one atop another, though in my case the skeletons are drafts. Dean Koontz
book house age
We never had books in the house. Not any book in our house. Not a Bible, not anything. So, I would go the library from a very young age and get the books out. Dean Koontz
book pages facts
The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page. Daniel Hannan
book kids writing
As a kid I wanted to write science fiction, and I was never without a book. Later I really got into being a scientist and never thought I'd be writing novels. Daniel H. Wilson
book light nuggets
I tend to pull nuggets out of many books - rather than having a handful of books that serve as guiding lights. Daniel H. Pink
book groups overcoming
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them. Daniel Goleman
book stranger said
I'm not a stranger," I said, and pointed to his book. "I'm someone who reads the same authors you do. Daniel Handler
book sometimes enough
Sometimes words are not enough. There are some circumstances so utterly wretched that I cannot describe them in sentences or paragraphs or even a whole series of books. Daniel Handler
book night thinking
There are those who say that life is like a book, with chapters for each event in your life and a limited number of pages on which you can spend your time. But I prefer to think that a book is like a life, particularly a good one, which is well to worth staying up all night to finish. Daniel Handler
book reading sight
There are few sights sadder than a ruined book. Daniel Handler
book reading happy-endings
If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book. Daniel Handler
book reading orange
Grinning is something you do when you are entertained in some way, such as reading a good book or watching someone you don't care for spill orange soda all over themselves. Daniel Handler
book reading three
If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters. Daniel Handler
book mean law
But one type of book that practically no one likes to read is a book about the law. Books about the law are notorious for being very long, very dull, and very difficult to read. This is one reason many lawyers make heaps of money. The money is an incentive - the word "incentive" here means "an offered reward to persuade you to do something you don't want to do - to read long, dull, and difficult books. Daniel Handler
book risk secret
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk. Daniel Handler
book people world
There are many, many types of books in the world, which makes good sense, because there are many, many types of people, and everybody wants to read something different. Daniel Handler
book reading tired
The book was long, and difficult to read, and Klaus became more and more tired as the night wore on. Occasionally his eyes would close. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. He found himself reading the same sentence over and over. Daniel Handler
book sadness thinking
The burning of a book is a sad, sad sight, for even though a book is nothing but ink and paper, it feels as if the ideas contained in the book are disappearing as the pages turn to ashes and the cover and binding--which is the term for the stitching and glue that holds the pages together--blacken and curl as the flames do their wicked work. When someone is burning a book, they are showing utter contempt for all of the thinking that produced its ideas, all of the labor that went into its words and sentences, and all of the trouble that befell the author . . . Daniel Handler
book reading hands
If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting quietly with good books in their hands is preferable to world filled with schisms and sirens and other noisy and troublesome things, then every time you enter a library you might say to yourself, 'The world is quiet here,' as a sort of pledge proclaiming reading to be the greater good. Daniel Handler
book happy-endings ifs
If you like books with happy endings then put this book down immediately. Daniel Handler
book mean cards
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true. Daniel Handler
book skeletons adults
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves. Daniel Handler
book reading airplane
There are some who say that sitting at home reading is the equivalent of travel, because the experiences described in the book are more or less the same as the experiences one might have on a voyages, and there are those who say that there is no substitute for venturing out into the world. My own opinion is that it is best to travel extensively but to read the entire time, hardly glancing up to look out of the window of the airplane, train, or hired camel. Daniel Handler
book fire mind
They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the mind. Daniel Handler