Quotes about book
book writing fifty
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry? Emile M. Cioran
book writing dare
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
book fall writing
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?
book reading offering
Designers provide ways into—and out of—the flood of words by breaking up text into pieces and offering shortcuts and alternate routes through masses of information. (...) Although many books define the purpose of typography as enhancing the readability of the written word, one of design’s most humane functions is, in actuality, to help readers avoid reading. Ellen Lupton
book writing let-me
O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books! Ellen Glasgow
book school dust
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
book writing night
As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"
book lessons
The Bible is God's great lesson book... Ellen G. White
book next lessons
Next to the Bible, nature is to be our great lesson book.
book offering advice
There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones? Ellen DeGeneres
book animal america
I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me.
book thinking two
I think two different people can read one of my books and come away with completely different opinions on the subject. I hope they just read from the beginning to the end and be made to think about the subject. Then they can come to their own conclusions. Eric Schlosser
book people library
Basically, I'm a perpetual student. I start by finding a subject I really don't know very much, but that I'm curious about. I learn about it through books in a library, by doing interviews with people who know a lot about the subject, and by going out on my own and seeing for myself what's happening.
book car video
In 1970, Americans spent about $6 billion on fast food; in 2000, they spent more than $110 billion. Americans now spend more money on fast food than on higher education, personal computers, computer software, or new cars. They spend more on fast food than on movies, books, magazines, newspapers, videos, and recorded music—combined.
book training mind
Books are the training weights of the mind. Epictetus
book focus trying
I really try to focus on my books and readers. Emily Giffin
book character age
I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters.
book cheesy littles
I like to match what I wear to my book jacket - it's a little bit cheesy, but it's my thing.
book choices want
A theme in a lot of my books - and in my own life - is making choices that you feel you should make, or what society wants you to make, as opposed to what is truly right for you.
book thinking dresses
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think. Emily Dickinson
book reading land
There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
book heart pages
But a Book is only the Heart's Portrait- every Page a Pulse.
book mushrooms today
Existence has overpowered Books. Today I slew a Mushroom.
book ships
To travel far, there is no better ship than a book.
book thinking hands
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And warming in our own, A passage back, or two, to make To times when he was young. His quaint opinions to inspect, His knowledge to unfold On what concerns our mutual mind, The literature of old...
book taken fire
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other way?
book
There is no frigate like a book
book reading-poetry fire
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
book reading writing
The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
book cooking horizon
Books make great gifts because they expand your horizons and keep you cooking. Emeril Lagasse
book may tvs
Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.
book writing winning
I don't judge in my books. I don't have to have the antagonist get shot or the protagonist win. It's just how it comes out. I'm just telling a story. Elmore Leonard
book weather pages
I won't read a book that starts with a description of the weather. I don't read books over 300 pages, though I'll make an exception for Don Delillo.