Quotes about boo
book fall reading
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier. Amanda Hocking
book people needs
For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.
book writing long
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn. Annie Dillard
book fool ifs
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
book people lazy
People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.
book light way
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
book imagination people
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.
book imagination world
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.
book writing house
Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.
book blow land
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone’s way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one.
book firsts excitement
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
book writing spinning
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
book mind passionate
Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.
book extravagant pure
All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
book written
Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
book writing ears
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.
book writing hands
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
book air breathe
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
book kids dark
I had a book that was given to me as a kid that was called 'Faeries.' It was this dark, sinister book with pictures that used to scare me because they were these creepy little creatures. But, I was always really drawn to that fantasy world, more than a sci-fi world, in terms of outer space stuff. Anna Silk
book luxury space
To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more. Annabelle Selldorf
book information connections
I know I'm old-fashioned, but there's just something about the act of looking at books versus taking in information on a screen, which is so one-dimensional. There's a sense of ownership that you have with books, a physical connection.
book earth study
I have continued systematically to study the Book of Mormon and Bible to understand even more deeply what God expects of me and my family while on this earth. Clayton Christensen
book writing successful
Often they [writers on the study of management] have a point of view based upon intuition and experience. They then offer a cadence of two-paragraph examples carefully selected to "prove" their theory, and then they write "one size fits all" books. The message is, "If you'd do what these companies did, you'd be successful too."
book library clubs
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time. Claire Danes
book kids thinking
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician. Daniel Johnston
book writing son
Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone. Daniel Keyes
book answers helping
The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer. Daniel J. Boorstin
book messengers slave
Books are messengers of freedom. They can be hidden under a mattress or smuggled into slave nations.
book needs information
It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.
book selling wells
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
book reading library
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
book people looks
When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish. Daniel Kahneman
book thinking cases
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.