Quotes about boo
book writing should
Your obligation as writers is to distinguish yourself. … The ultimate result should be a book that you write that no one else could have written. David Morrell
book writing rushing
As much as I like it when a book I'm writing speeds along, the downside can be that an author becomes too eager to finish and rushes the end. The end is even more important than the first page, and rushing can damage it.
book biographies tests
Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. David McCullough
book writing interesting
My shorthand answer is that I try to write the kind of book that I would like to read. If I can make it clear and interesting and compelling to me, then I hope maybe it will be for the reader.
book writing ideas
I feel that what I do is a calling. I would pay to do what I do if I had to. I will never live long enough to do the work I want to do: the books I would like to write, the ideas I would like to explore.
book today madness
I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.
book bigger
Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.
book reading people
To hold the reader's attention, you have to bring the person who's reading the book inside the experience of the time: What was it like to have been alive then? What were these people like as human beings?
book writing journey
Once I discovered the endless fascination of doing the research and of doing the writing, I knew I had found what I wanted to do in my life. Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
book character people
Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.
book age saws
It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.
book journey experts
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.
book rewards infinite
Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.
book reading feel-better
Read. Read every chance you get. Read to keep growing. Read history. Read poetry. Read for pure enjoyment. Read a book called Life on a Little Known Planet. It's about insects. It will make you feel better.
book thinking people
When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy! David Mitchell
book hero journey
I elbowed my way into the grubby café, bought a pie that tasted of shoe polish and a pot of tea with cork crumbs floating in it, and eavesdropped on a pair of Shetland pony breeders. Despondency makes one hanker after lives one never led. Why have you given your life to books, TC? Dull, dull, dull! The memoirs are bad enough, but all that ruddy fiction! Hero goes on a journey, stranger comes to town, somebody wants something, they get it or they don't, will is pitted against will. "Admire me, for I am a metaphor.
book heard
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
book challenges loses
I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
book reading fate
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
book answers maps
I have always preferred maps to books. They don't answer you back.
book reading
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
book eye done
So much is wrapped up in our work and each book of the Bible points to Christ and the good news of what he's done that impacts the whole of our lives and the whole of our world. When our eyes are opened to see how each book of the Bible points us to the gospel, the relevance to our work and the need for this good news to enter into our work becomes increasingly evident. David Kim
book imagine observation
You can't just be reactive to the things going on in your life. You have to imagine, and you have to plunder other people's work, books, poems, ideas, observations. David Gray
book writing player
Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it. David Guterson
book successful expectations
I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
book fall skeletons
Word books traditionally focus on unusual and quirky items. They tend to ignore the words that provide the skeleton of the language, without which it would fall apart, such as 'and' and 'what,' or words that provide structure to our conversation, such as 'hello. David Crystal
book firsts six
The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny! David Cross
book reading ideas
There are a number of people without whom I could not have written this book, but I hope you don't hold that against them. They are all fine people, and they had no idea how it would turn out. Dave Barry
book reading writing
All these people helped make this book possible. But let me make one thing clear: If there are any errors or omissions in this book, these people are not responsible. In the end, there is only one person responsible for what I write, and that person, of course, is: Donald Trump.
book taken reading
First, a few words about this title. It isn't easy, coming up with book titles. A lot of the really good ones are taken. Thin Thighs in 30 Days, for example. Also The Bible.
book sea fishing
The books all say that barracuda rarely eat people, but very few barracuda can read.
book humorous night
Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield Gets Spayed, and you'll see a half-dozen books telling you how to be excellent: In Search of Excellence, Finding Excellence, Grasping Hold of Excellence, Where to Hide Your Excellence at Night So the Cleaning Personnel Don't Steal It, etc.
book drinking eye
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.