Quotes about book
book two orchestra
I do read everything that we publish. We usually have to have two or three votes for a book before we take it on. So in that sense I suppose it is an orchestra. James Laughlin
book inquiring psychological
Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro. Joe Queenan
book mind lovers
Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind.
book weapons siege
Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.
book sadness may
Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise.
book taken fighting
My books have been part of my life forever. They have been good soldiers, boon companions. Every book has survived numerous purges over the years; each book has repeatedly been called onto the carpet and asked to explain itself. I own no book that has not fought the good fight, taken on all comers, and earned the right to remain. If a book is there, it is there for a reason.
book people lending
Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.
book culture passionate
I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. John Galliano
book men squares
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it. John Galsworthy
book buddhism synthesizers
But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism. John Frusciante
book writing importance
I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. John Entwistle
book library environmental
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. John Dingell
book men world
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world. John Donne
book reading lovers
I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.
book writing reality
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can. John Dos Passos
book creativity adventure
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.
book men islands
All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated....As therefore the bell that rings to a sermon, calls not upon the preacher only, but upon the congregation to come: so this bell calls us all....No man is an island, entire of itself...any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
book desire should
He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.
book character indicators
There is no better indicators of character than the books you have. John Dunning
book writing thinking
I don't write books because I have answers. I write books because I have questions. What we are is the questions that we ask, not the answers that we provide. It's all about the process of self-examination. I think that's what the best writing always contains. John Edgar Wideman
book people tools
We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book. John Ortberg
book heart path
A book is a path of words which takes the heart in new directions. John O'Donohue
book names garbage
Ill book a ticket on some garbage airline. I dont wanna name an actual airline so lets make one up, lets just call it like Delta Airlines John Mulaney
book play people
There's more of yourself in a book than a play. that's why we know all about Dickens and not much about Shakespeare. Ben Jonson murdered people; Marlowe was a spy; Shakespeare just sat in the corner and took notes. John Mortimer
book cutting squad
The officers of the branch of the Force (the Obscene Publications Squad) have a discouraging club tie, on which a book is depicted being cut in half by a larger pair of scissors.
book reading spirit
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit. John Milton
book reading burning
He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
book use delight
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. John Denham
book intimate roof
A book or a letter may institute a more intimate association between human beings separated thousands of miles from each other than exists between dwellers under the same roof. John Dewey
book products
The megaselling books by celebrities are not so much books as products. John Berendt
book years grows
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass. John Berger
book long paper
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit and time, and, reflecting zeitgeist, lasts as long as ore and stone. Johann Georg Hamann
book writing adultery
Bad books on writing tell you to "WRITE WHAT YOU KNOW", a solemn and totally false adage that is the reason there exist so many mediocre novels about English professors contemplating adultery. Joe Haldeman