Quotes about boo
book greatest-fear disappointing
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before. Anthony Horowitz
book phones expectations
I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything Anthony Hopkins
book makes-you-stronger
What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer. Anthony Kiedis
book reading people
People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it. Alicia Vikander
book littles rich
But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. Alison Bechdel
book class firsts
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
book reading thinking
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.
book thinking mad
Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them. Alice Thomas Ellis
book thinking trying
Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about. Alice Sebold
book done stuff
I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then I pretty much stopped. I'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.
book important disrespectful
I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books]. Alice Walker
book reading world
Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
book likes duty
Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
book humility writing
A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility. Alice McDermott
book shapes four
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich... Alice James
book coffee hands
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb tea which is now her substitute for coffee. At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days. Alice Munro
book men boys
It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I would find, for the next few years, my lovers. They were men, not boys. They were self-possessed and sardonic, with a ferocious streak in them, reserves of gloom.
book reading dust
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.
book years twenties
I've been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays. Alice Hoffman
book way looks
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.
book tone plot
I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself
book reading grandmother
Our house was littered with books- in the kitchen, under the beds, stuck between the couch pillows--far too many for her the ever finish. I suppose I thought if my grandmother kept up her interests, she wouldn't die; she'd have to stay around to finish the books she was so fond of. "I've got to get to the bottom of this one," she'd say, as if a book were no different from a pond or a lake. I thought she'd go on reading forever but it didn't work out that way.
book people library
Are people drawn to each other because of the stories they carry inside? At the library I couldn’t help but notice which patrons checked out the same books. They appeared to have nothing in common, but who could tell what a person was truly made of? The unknown, the riddle, the deepest truth. I noticed them all: the ones who’d lost their way, the ones who’d lived their lives in ashes, the ones who had to prove themselves, the ones who, like me, had lost the ability to feel.
book breathing sigh
I heard a sigh, as though the books were breathing. I felt that this was where I belonged. This was where I lived.
book writing forget-everything
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head
book faces looks
It reminds me how funny living in LA can be; You go to a friend's barbecue and you leave the face of Victoria Beckham's look book. Alice Greczyn
book thinking way
I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that. Alice Eve
book needs mood
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept Anne McCaffrey
book age needs
At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book
book world comfort
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens
book successful years
I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others. Anne Lamott
book reading reviews
E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.
book thinking people
Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.