Quotes about book
book writing men
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops - in general, doing everything men do. Erica Jong
book hands people
Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need them at the times when they need them ... Cosmic forces guide such passings-along.
book writing thinking
I stand in the mist and cry, thinking of myself standing in the mist and crying, and wondering if I will ever be able to use this experience in a book.
book men hoe
Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear. Eric Burns
book important firsts
Brown Bear, Brown Bear was kind of my first important book Eric Carle
book thinking wind
Let's put it this way: if you are a novelist, I think you start out with a 20 word idea, and you work at it and you wind up with a 200,000 word novel. We, picture-book people, or at least I, start out with 200,000 words and I reduce it to 20
book giving honor
It's an honor, indeed I'm glad, to join in giving a warm reception to a book that has given me many delightful moments. Enrique Vila-Matas
book hollies copies
HOLLY: Are you suggesting I occasionally stray from the rule book? FOALY: No. I'm suggesting you do not own a copy of the rule book, and if you do, you have certainly never opened it. Eoin Colfer
book reading thinking
I have always loved 'Stig of the Dump.' I think reading that book made me officially realise that I was a reader.
book people hook
What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever.
book frustrated use
I often meet frustrated young writers who say they've only got so far and just can't finish a book. Even if you don't happen to use what you've worked on that day, it has taught you something and you'll be amazed when you might come back to it and use it again.
book television grew-up
I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself. Emily Watson
book open-book
I'm a pretty open book. Emily VanCamp
book museums trying
[On the British Museum:] It was manifestly impossible to read all the books in that huge, gloomy structure, but I made a good try and accumulated a fund of useless information guaranteed to cast a pall over any dinner table. Elsa Maxwell
book writing men
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book. Elvis Costello
book time-management management
I've actually not read any books on time management. Elon Musk
book trying may
Actually, I love trying to figure out why certain books become hits while others, which may be just as good, have trouble finding an audience. Jay Asher
book writing people
When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
book people way
The main thing I wanted to say, and thankfully it’s what most people say they get out of the book, is simply an acknowledgement that we do affect each other in ways we can’t predict.
book thinking other-worlds
For the first time i began to think, consciously and deliberately of religion and other worlds. The Hindu religion especially went up in my estimation; not the ritual or ceremonial part, but it's great books, the "Upnishads", and the "Bhagavad Gita". Jawaharlal Nehru
book character cities
I was always a clown. In the eighth grade I won a city speech contest by doing an Eddie Murphy routine. I'm no good at public speaking, but if I can assume a role and speak as that person, then I'm fine. When I had to give a book report, I always did it in character. Jason Wiles
book ideas interesting
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. Jasper Fforde
book writing years
It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.
book should-have romance
Every book should have a romance.
book giving library
Mr. Pewter led them through to a library, filled with thousands of antiquarian books. 'Impressive, eh?' 'Very,' said Jack. 'How did you amass all these?' 'Well,' said Pewter, 'You know the person who always borrows books and never gives them back?' 'Yes...?' 'I'm that person.
book assuming academic
I still feel threatened by academics, but my books have a lot of academic in-jokes and everybody assumes I went to university and studied English.
book awards seven
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
book needs attention
He spent his life immersed in books to the cost of everything else, even personal relationships. "Friends," he'd once said, "are probably great, but I have forty thousands friends of my own already, and each of them needs my attention.
book degrees creeps
There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.
book magic kind
Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.
book writing people
To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.
book heed
Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
book thinking giving
Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.