Quotes about boo
book grateful thinking
I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me. I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society - which is true in all his books. Alan Lightman
book creative different
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
book important looks
Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books.
book years two
A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
book reading should-have
I should have written books instead of reading them.
book character able
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
book way different
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
book writing bird
One day I'm going to write a book about osprey . It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.
book years four
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four. Alan Davies
book reality want
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. Alan Furst
book writing get-better
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
book thinking past
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
book europe people
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.
book writing two
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
book
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do. Alan Garner
book character amusement
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. Alan Dean Foster
book reading mean
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
book way oneself
The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable. Alain de Botton
book best-effort taste
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
book writing years
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.
book giving feelings
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
book sadness console
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...
book secret maps
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
book writing sick
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.
book done remains
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
book glasses lessons
We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.
book emotion good-book
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
book asking kind
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
book order people
We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.
book world reason
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. Al Capp
bootlegging
Some call it bootlegging. Some call it racketeering. I call it a business. Al Capone
book responsibility writing
I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book. Al Franken
book political important
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.