Quotes about book
book books-and-reading closed expectation good opened
That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit. Amos Alcott
books-and-reading line whether
That's a first line many have heard, whether or not they've read the book.
book concerned leave open sit takes until
It's still open. I'm still concerned about it. I can't sit here and say it will be solved. You leave the book open until it's resolved. When that'll happen, who knows? Sometimes, as in the Kaczynski case, sometimes it takes a break.
book control guess happy leap marketing mean necessary push quieter somewhat style
It's somewhat of a contradiction, ... I guess the quieter the voice, the more necessary it is to push it. It's not going to leap out at you and scream. I also can't control how a book is marketed. To say the book marketing is aggressive, fine, I'm happy with that. Push the book. That doesn't mean that my personality or writing style changes. David Bergen
book challenges easy lessons light modern reader
It's not an easy book. The book challenges the young reader to see the modern world in light of the lessons of the past.
book fiction literary people strong turned waiting year
Everyone is still waiting for the book that everyone greets as the big literary book. People thought it would be a strong year for fiction but it hasn't turned out that way. John Sterling
books people realize surprise
Every one of these books is going to have one really big surprise in it to make people say, 'I didn't realize that,' Thomas Cahill
books comic despair falling happy lives ordinary people pieces seems trying
Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them. J. M. Coetzee
books-and-reading hymn singing
Everyone has to be singing from the same hymn book. Dean Lombardi
book definitely written
It's definitely something that's not written down in a book that you can read about, ... I couldn't do what I do without my parents. Paula Creamer
book followed hear publishing seems until
It seems if you write a book about something, there's going to be an investigation. It seems that has followed the publishing of the book. I don't think that's right. You didn't hear anything about this until the book was written. Steve Finley
book comic future work
It was like a 1930s comic book set in the future. I can't say what it was, but there was something about it that made me think it would work as a movie. Joel Silver
book came consider detail essay relationship
It was like writing an essay or a book because at every detail one had to consider what was new and what was old and how the relationship came together, David Nelson
books books-and-reading busy collection huge love
I've got a huge collection of books I haven't even read yet because I've been so busy over the years. I want to travel. I love going out West, going to Maine.
books-and-reading fly unread
I've got 11 fly rods and a lot of unread books. Robert Rubin
book clearly dr fire memory sky visual
I've got every Dr Seuss book there is. Everything was red, like the sky was on fire. That was a memory that I could see really clearly as a child, a very visual image. Markus Zusak
books fell few happens looked love obsessed though written
I've written two books set in India... In the mid-'80s, I just fell for India, and it was like a love affair. I was obsessed with it. I read a few things, and looked at films, and it was as though I was more there than in England, where I was writing! This always happens to me, and it's magical. Tanith Lee
books chose found projects scale work written
I've written books for awhile, but always on a pretty small scale and always pretty self-indulgent. I chose projects that I thought would be really fun to work on and found friends to work on them with me, and it was all about the process. Chelsea Cain
books molly moved romance written
I've written 26 books and novellas as Molly O'Keefe. I moved through three different Harlequin lines and into single-title romance with Bantam writing under that name. Fun fact: It's not my name, and it's not even one I picked.
book christian jewish lady muslim passing pastor
OK, here's a Christian pastor writing a book that a Jewish lady is passing on to a Muslim lady. Rick Warren
book man posterity small walked
No man ever walked down to posterity with so small a book under his arm. Charles Dickens
books certainly five good telling trying
No, I never feel that it's getting away from me, ... I certainly am telling it in more detail, in which case, I think it's good that I'm telling it in more books than five. Trying to compress it into five would have made it not as readable or enjoyable. Robert Jordan
books bottom comments few forgotten matter none published quite science time type
No matter what I've published - and you can look it up, I've published quite a lot in science, quite a few books too - none of it's very important. All will be forgotten and in a few years time will be a few comments in eight-point type in footnotes at the bottom of the page somewhere. Robert Winston
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never reads books and I just started reading one because I had nothing else to do. I have problems going outside because if I get too overheated I pass out. Once the roads were cleaned out you couldn't drive because there wasn't gas. Once they did open up the gas stations the lines were a mile long. I siphoned gas out of the lawn mower into the car so I could go to the store and try to get stuff.
book change experience immigrant moving
There's a lot in the book (about) the immigrant experience and the change of generations. It's about moving from the old to the new world.
books five great hitting home runs team
They're a great hitting team but we were just better tonight. The five home runs are by the books now. It doesn't matter, as long as we got the win.
book both last length nights novel thousand
They're about real life, these books, both like novel length things. There's another book I did last year, A Thousand and One Nights of Bacchus. Eddie Campbell
books came complaints destroy fears incredibly oral proven resistance rise stop technology written
There's been resistance to every new technology that's ever been introduced. When books came out hundreds of years ago, there were complaints that it would destroy the oral tradition. Some of those fears were justified, but it didn't stop the rise of the written word. And books have proven to be incredibly useful. Jeremy Stoppelman
book companies expenses horse importance separating value
If you put revenues, expenses for marketing, book value in a horse race, revenues lose. It doesn't have any importance in separating companies out.
book buy chuck people
If you're a best-selling writer, then they just want to chuck the book out there, because people will buy it anyway. Nick Hornby
books-and-reading strictly
If you look at the numbers, you can tell the NIT went strictly by the book.
booked choose hire insurance jail lose name nice orange pay post prepared serve
If you choose to drink, then drive, be prepared to be stopped, arrested, transported to jail, booked (photographed, fingerprinted and issued a nice orange jumpsuit), hire a lawyer, post bail, see a judge, be sentenced, lose your license, serve jail time, pay a fine, pay more insurance and see your name in the paper.
book good pick shop stores time
If you have time to spend, it's good to have different stores to shop at. You can pick up a book or a last-minute gift.