Quotes about book
book writing character
It's funny - for a long time, I didn't know I was writing a book. I was writing stories. For me, each story took so long and took so much out of me, that when I finished it, I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel like I've poured everything from myself into this, and then I'd get depressed for a week. And then once I was ready to write a new story, I would want to write about something that was completely different, so I would search for a totally different character with a different set of circumstances. Molly Antopol
book writing thinking
The Israel stories were really hard for me to write, because I think that my book is very much about politics, but it isn't political. It really was important for me to not have a political agenda at all, because I have a hard time stomaching any political fiction that feels message-y.
book writing thinking
It was tricky [to write about Israelis], because everyone has an opinion about the Arab - Israeli conflict, and when I first started writing these stories, I was working for an Arab - Israeli human rights group. It was during the Second Intifada. It was this totally violent and intense time, and I think there's a part of me where I don't know how to write about that situation without getting my politics out of my messages, and that's something that was important for me not to do in this book.
book people holocaust
With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel like so many writers who have either lived through it firsthand or were part of that generation where they were closer to the people who were in it have written so beautifully about it, so there's no lack of great books about it
book reading done
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. Moliere
book good-friend bottles
Great is the fortune of he who possesses a good bottle, a good book, and a good friend.
book reading writing
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living.
book greek pages
A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
book reading different
It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . . Mohsin Hamid
book character dark
But when you read a book, what you see are black squiggles on pulped wood or, increasingly, dark pixels on a pale screen. To transform these icons into characters and events, you must imagine. And when you imagine, you create.
book writing years
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
book echoes ambiguity
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
book taj-mahal painting
I'd rather create a miniature painting than a Taj Mahal of a book.
book people way
Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through
book kids speak
I used to sit when I was a kid, from 14 or 15 on, with a book or a paper or a magazine in front of a mirror and teach myself to speak with a more straight mouth, so it wasn't so pronounced. Milo Ventimiglia
book iron black
There is no figure who had more of an influence, no person had more of an influence on the intellectuals behind the Iron Curtain than Friedrich Hayek. His books were translated and published by the underground and black market editions, read widely, and undoubtedly influenced the climate of opinion that ultimately brought about the collapse of the Soviet Union. Milton Friedman
book law minimum-wage
I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent.
book years long
The true test of any scholar's work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.
book my-favorite filmmaking
Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I do every time, it's part of my production structure. He said when you're hiring an actor, ask them what draws them to the project, and don't lead them to the answer. Mike Birbiglia
book printed-books want
I would always want printed books. J. K. Rowling
book writing needs
I've been asked this question so many times, do you feel you need to write a book for adults? No, I don't need to write a book for adults.
book writing potters
No, there's no University for Wizards. At the moment I'm only planning to write seven Harry Potter books. I won't say "never," but I have no plans to write an eighth book.
book writing grieving
I don't feel quite normal if I haven't written for a while. I doubt I will ever again write anything as popular as the "Harry" books, but I can live with that thought quite easily. By the time I stop writing about Harry, I will have lived with him for 13 years, and I know it's going to feel like a bereavement. So I'll probably take some time off to grieve, and then on with the next book!
book answers clue
I really like how the sixth book is going. A lot happens in the sixth book and a lot of questions are answered. I really have a sense that we are nearly there and it is time for answers, not more questions and clues, although obviously there are a few clues as I am not quite finished yet.
book taken years
There aren't that many people who have written seven-book series, taken them 17 years. Actually finishing was (the) most remarkable feeling I've ever had. (I) couldn't tell you which was uppermost - euphoria or feeling devastated.
book writing thinking
I think they thought it was very arrogant of me to write the end of my seven books series when I didn't have a publisher and no-one had heard of me
book writing persistence
I've been writing since I was six. It is a compulsion, so I can't really say where the desire came from; I've always had it. My breakthrough with the first book came through persistence, because a lot of publishers turned it down!
book thinking forever
I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
book thinking creative
Just think how many books I could've sold if Harry had been a bit more creative with his wand." -[On the success of 50 Shades of Grey]
book parent limits
When I was quite young my parents never said books were off limits.
book thinking people
The Potter books in general are a prolonged argument for tolerance, a prolonged plea for an end to bigotry. And I think it's one of the reasons that some people don't like the books, but I think that's it's a very healthy message to pass on to younger people that you should question authority and you should not assume that the establishment or the press tells you all of the truth.
book men shining
Books-bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men. H. G. Wells
book writing trying
If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.