Quotes about book
book change enjoy mind next sad start subject time whenever
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy writing another book as much as I enjoy this one.' Every time, I'm convinced. And then I change my mind when I start the next book. Gretchen Rubin
books helps kept lose might notes odd organize related seeing stimulate whether wondered worry
For notes related to books I'm writing, I've wondered whether I should organize my notes better, but I do find that the action or scrolling through them and seeing odd juxtapositions of ideas helps to stimulate my own ideas and creativity. I worry that if I kept the notes in a highly-structured way, I might lose some of these benefits. Gretchen Rubin
book character writing
Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time. Kurt Vonnegut
book people might
People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be. Kurt Vonnegut
book mosaics grownups
That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes. Kurt Vonnegut
book thoughtful past
The Fourteenth Book is entitled, "What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: "Nothing. Kurt Vonnegut
book doctors people
The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them. Kurt Vonnegut
book writing thoughtful
I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write. Kurt Vonnegut
book
Nothing in this book is true. Kurt Vonnegut
book
Only in books do we learn what’s really going on. Kurt Vonnegut
book networking magazines
If it had anything to do with the PC or networking industry I was on top of it. I bought manuals. I read every book and magazine. Then I would get involved with industry conferences and put myself out there. Mark Cuban
book vacation years
My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even take the time to read a fiction book. It was all about work. When I sold it, I promised myself I would never wear a watch and only wear a suit to weddings, funerals and to meet the President. Mark Cuban
book reading library
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends. Charles William Eliot
book views illustration
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration of my views of those principles, and as evidence strengthening the system necessarily arising out of the admission of such principles, which... are neither more nor less than that no causes whatever have from the earliest time to which we can look back, to the present, ever acted, but those now acting; and that they never acted with different degrees of energy from that which they now exert. Charles Lyell
book library literature
I remember being in the public library and my jaw just aching as I looked around at all those books I wanted to read. There just wasn't time enough to read everything I wanted to read. Charles Kuralt
book writing building-houses
Culture is everything. Culture is the way we dress, the way we carry our heads, the way we walk, the way we tie our ties - it is not only the fact of writing books or building houses. Aime Cesaire
book matter needs
The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about life I most need to hear as the confession of myself Aidan Chambers
book writing people
Fame, money and the size of the market are not very important to me. What is, is writing a book that is worth doing and then publishing it. I don't write books for entertainment, for people to pass the time then throw away. Aidan Chambers
book impact aftermath
There may yet be another Watergate book. I have thought a book about the aftermath of Watergate and its impact could be done, perhaps by me or someone else. Bob Woodward
book literature littles
I recently did the David Letterman Show about my book. He was very serious and made no jokes and it caught me off guard a little bit. He was much more serious than some of the joke shows that journalists get on. Bob Woodward
book open-book has-beens
My life has been an open book, for better or for worse. Blake Shelton
book pussy good-book
Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book. Bo Burnham
book mean writing
Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time. Billy Joel
book church today
Much of today’s church relies more on a book the early church didn't have, than the Holy Spirit they did. Bill Johnson
book pages alive
Books are like friends to me. Words come alive on the page. Beverly Lewis
book cat men
Long experience has taught me that people who do not like geraniums have something morally unsound about them. Sooner or later you will find them out; you will discover that they drink, or steal books, or speak sharply to cats. Never trust a man or a woman who is not passionately devoted to geraniums. Beverley Nichols
book
I read my books aloud before they were published. Beverly Cleary
book reading twins
With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own. Beverly Cleary
book library would-be
In seventh grade...I found a place on the [library]shelf where my book would be if I ever wrote a book, which I doubted. Beverly Cleary
book imagination vivid
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. Beverly Cleary
book writing want
If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it. Beverly Cleary
book years giving
Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood. Beverly Cleary
book reading sunday
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since. Beverly Cleary