Quotes about boo
book long criticism
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. E. M. Forster
book writing india
The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
book want language
Ah, but you see, I didn't want to be fair.
book night fire
At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
book reading writing
One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
book interesting literature
Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.
book reading long
Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.
book littles path
The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
book way discovering
Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
book smell hands
I often read nonfiction with a pencil in hand. I love the feel, the smell, the design, the weight of a book, but I also enjoy the convenience of my Kindle - for travel and for procuring a book in seconds. Drew Gilpin Faust
book party school
I'd buy joke books and try doing them at school; I always had jokes. That would be my go-to thing at parties: I'd be able to get through them if I just told enough jokes. Otherwise, I wouldn't end up talking to anybody. Drew Carey
book exercise next
As far as exercising goes... watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging.
book thinking people
It wasn't my choice to be an open book, but when people found out what my life was like when I was 14 or 15, I didn't deny it. I think the more imperfect you are, the more human you are. Drew Barrymore
book
You can never, never have too many books
book writing thinking
When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea. Douglas Preston
book thinking goes-on
I don't think tablets are where we should be focused. But I do think they could end up being an efficient way of delivering textbooks. They're just not really that, yet. There's all sorts of poisons and mined minerals and carnage that goes on to make a tablet. Way more than to print a book. Or a bunch of books. Douglas Rushkoff
book people computer
Computers don't kill books; people do.
book thinking soul
Books have souls. Or so romantics like me tend to think.
book people needs
As a writer and sometime activist who needs to promote my books and articles and occasionally rally people to one cause or another, I found Facebook fast and convenient. Though I never really used it to socialize, I figured it was OK to let other people do that, and I benefited from their behavior.
book writing agency
Unfortunately, for the vast majority of us, a vast majority of the time, we surrender our true autonomy to this illusion of agency. I'm as guilty as anybody, and I write about it in a book. I'm not condemning anybody.
book soul ignorant
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide. Doug Graham
book talking ideas
I was at La Fenice opera house back in 1991 with friends, and we started talking about a conductor whom none of us liked. Somehow there was an escalation, and we started talking about how to kill him, where to kill him. This struck me as a good idea for a book. Donna Leon
book writing two
I was extraordinarily lucky. I wrote a book because I wanted to see if I could write a mystery. Someone nagged me into sending it to a contest, which it won, after which I was offered a two-book contract, thus requiring the writing of a second book.
book reading imagination
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become familiar with the quality of my mind and imagination. They can make judgements about my research abilities. They can tell how well I have documented my claims of experimental results. Any scientist can redo my experiments to see if they still work-and this has happened! I know of no other field in which contributions to world culture are so clearly on exhibit, so cumulative, and so subject to verification. Donald Cram
book writing people
As Jules Renard said, no matter how much care an author takes to write as few books as possible, there will be people who haven't heard of some of them. Donald Barthelme
book men language
The language of my books has shaped me as a man. Don DeLillo
book interesting holes
holes are interesting. there are books about holes.
book writing character
In fiction, I tend to write fairly realistic dialogue-not always, and it tends to vary from book to book. But in many books, there is a colloquialism of address. The characters will speak in a quite idiosyncratic way sometimes.
book media age
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
book character hands
The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is like the masses: a multitude of impressions. A book on the other hand, with its linear advance of words and characters seems to be connected to individual identity.
book three four
It's my contention that each book creates its own structure and its own length. I've written three or four slim books. It may be that the next novel is a big one, but I don't know.
book people individual
Somehow pictures always lead to people as masses. Books belong to individuals.
book thinking america
I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.