Quotes about book
book tuna-fish giving
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books. Lois Lowry
book thinking action
I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
book thinking gone
I think of every book as a single entity, and some have later gone on to become a series, often at the request of readers.
book important want
So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say.
book kids writing
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them.
book knowing feelings
I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.
book kids thinking
Early on I came to realize something, and it came from the mail I received from kids. That is, kids at that pivotal age, 12, 13 or 14, they're still deeply affected by what they read, some are changed by what they read, books can change the way they feel about the world in general. I don't think that's true of adults as much.
book other-half half
The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.
book writing world
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves. Lloyd Alexander
book may reader
If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn.
book fantasy form
Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy.
book literature waste
Book reviews have never helped me. Most of them erred in their interpretations and their work has been a waste of time. Manuel Puig
book kind study
I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.
book cocky blow
Some people have read a few Marxist books and think themselves quite learned but what they have read has not penetrated, has not struck root in their minds, so that they do not know how to use it and their class feelings remain as of old. Others are very conceited and having learned some book-phrases, think them terrific and are very cocky; but whenever a storm blows up, they take a stand very different from that of the workers and the majority of the peasants. They waver while the latter stand firm, they equivocate while the latter are forthright. Mao Zedong
book revolution communism
Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.
book intelligent years
Jeremy Popkin's collection of first-person narratives of the Haitian Revolution is an extremely valuable work, accessible, sound and intelligent. I only wish such a book had been available fifteen years ago when I was in the early stages of researching my series of novels. Popkin has been deft and tactful in stitching together these excerpts, and as a result, he manages to tell a complete version of the Revolution almost entirely in the words of the people who experienced it-this book engaged me deeply. Madison Smartt Bell
book writing doubt
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft.
book writing convinced
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. Madeleine L'Engle
book writing might
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.
book writing hands
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.
book light illumination
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.
book writing
A book comes and says, 'Write me.
book writing order
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
book writing stories
My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while you’re doing it. You know more about it after you’re done.
book giving people
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala. Lynne Truss
book hands errors
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.
book journey voice
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.
book men ideas
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it. Lysander Spooner
book apples fire
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. Lucy Maud Montgomery
book names shame
Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
book drunkards
I am simply a book drunkard.
book revelations book-of-revelation
There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
book writing temptation
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.