Quotes about boo
book writing trying
All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write. Carl Sandburg
book judging judging-a-book-by-its-cover
You can't judge a book by its cover, can you? Cao Cao
book novel
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels. Caprice Bourret
book reading kingdoms
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books. Cardinal Richelieu
book character views
It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way. Carey Mulligan
book reading age
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. C. S. Lewis
book reading should
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
book wish ordinary
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
book wind long
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
book play skills
Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.
book years good-book
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.
book endless products
I am a product [...of] endless books.
book reading sea-breeze
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
book reading men
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
book sleep writing
For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark. Anne Tyler
boost bowl certainly huge next rankings sure win year
We've sure had our bowl troubles. That's why it would be huge for us to win this game. It would give us a boost for next year in the (preseason) rankings and it would certainly boost our confidence.
book kids costumes
My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids. Burt Ward
book play arrows
I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though. Celina Jade
book school two
There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action. Cesar Millan
book writing way
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.
book people goes-on
I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.
book giving demand
Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership. Carol Berg
book writing fairy-tale
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales Carol Ann Duffy
book writing way
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
book wish more-time
I wish I had more time to read. I do love books. Carnie Wilson
book thinking long
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge. Alan Lightman
book years important
You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
book writing golf
When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water...You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
book inspiration writing
I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It's a vision of the whole thing.
book character thinking
The Diagnosis had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
book insecure thinking
The Diagnosis is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years. Just didn't know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out...
book tragedy diagnosis
I wouldn't overall say that The Diagnosis it's a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.
book writing ideas
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be careful that they don't take over.