Quotes about book
book different-experiences film
It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience Ed Harris
book awards feminist
Adrienne Rich was one of the most widely-read and influential poets of her time, a leading feminist, known especially for her politically-engaged verse. Her best-known volume, "Diving into the Wreck," won the National Book Award in 1973. Earl Scruggs
book race bores-you
Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary. Elizabeth McCracken
book remember
Books remember all the things you cannot contain.
book ideas library
The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.
book character people
Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people. Elizabeth Moon
book character fiction
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
book writing fiction
When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
book
Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing. Elizabeth Kostova
book purpose reader
No book that is written for an external purpose is going to be a passionately felt book for the writer or the reader. I don't see the point in doing that.
book library want
You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.
book long temptation
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.
book wonder someday
...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant to find?
book entertainment
Yes, I don't read books for entertainment. Elizabeth Olsen
book want scripts
But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.
book character phones
If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that character, the possibilities are endless. When you have such a defined character, I feel like I can actually read the phone book and make it funny. Eliza Coupe
book writing men
Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
book love-you writing
OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is.
book reading succeed
Books succeed; and lives fail.
book men higher
... books are men of higher stature ...
book reading profound
We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.
book men speak
Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear.
book writing ends
Of writing many books there is no end.
book mirrors dust
Books! The chosen depositories of the thoughts, the opinions, and the aspirations of mighty intellects; like wondrous mirrors that have caught and fixed bright images of souls that have passed away; like magic lyres, whose masters have bequeathed them to the world, and which yet, of themselves, ring with unforgotten music, while the hands that touched their chords have crumbled into dust. Books! they are the embodiments and manifestations of departed minds--the living organs through which those who are dead yet speak to us. Edwin Hubbel Chapin
book rooms energy
The biggest fatal flaw in most fictional portrayals of nanotech - what sends those books arcing across the room - is ignoring that the nanobots need energy to do... anything. Edward M. Lerner
book gay race
With Barack Obama, we will turn the page on the old politics of misrepresentation and distortion. With Barack Obama we will close the book on the old politics of race against race, gender against gender, ethnic group against ethnic group, and straight against gay. Edward Kennedy
book
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice. Edmund Wilson
book past sick
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the enemy not as a fissure in the will but as a dead fetus in the specimen jar of the unconscious. My attention was being paternally led away from the excruciating present to the happy, healthy future that would be enabled by an analysis of the sick past, as though the priest had nothing to do but study old books and make bright forecasts, the present not worthy of notice. Edmund White
book keys years
Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science, in all of biology. The key to our being here now is time, 4.54 billion (Earth) years of time. Nuclear fission wasn't discovered until long after Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace published their original books and papers, for example. Our ability to measure atomic masses wasn't developed until long after their deaths. These features of nature enabled us to reckon the age of the Earth and compare it with speciation rates here. Bill Nye
book people television
Television isn't inherently good or bad. You go to a bookstore, there are how many thousands of books, but how many of those do you want? Five? Television's the same way. If you're going to show people stuff, television is the way to go. Words and pictures show things.
book reading thinking
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. Bill Murray
book cards different
I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books. Bess Truman
book writing talking
I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. Beryl Bainbridge