Quotes about book
book air dust
As I leafed through the book in front of me and watched the dust swirl in the air, I wondered if maybe there was some evil dormant virus in the pages that would infect me, like the mummy dust that used to kill archaeologists. Death by research. That was not a glorious end. Rachel Caine
book people should
People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent. Phil McGraw
book opportunity never-quit
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing just one thing struck them as a decorative display opportunity tragically lost.
book house important
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.
book littles happens
Very little happens in my books. Peter Mayle
book years funny-things
The funny thing in France is that writers are not allowed to retire, because the French government say you are still earning money from books you wrote 20 years ago.
book writing stories
It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid... initially and my own stories. Peter Morgan
book play people
There are so many other people involved in the making of a play or a television series or whatever... even if you're a novelist there's so much in just the marketing of a book, or even the time... the zeitgeist, the moment at which it comes out. There's a lot you can't control.
book passion kissing
Under the pretext of study we spent our hours in the happiness of love, and learning held out to us the secret opportunities that our passion craved. Our speech was more of love than of the books which lay open before us; our kisses far outnumbered our reasoned words. Peter Abelard
book character imagination
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books. Peter Ackroyd
book light smell
London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
book planning instinct
None of my books has been ever in my head; after they're finished, they go. It's like being a sort of medium; you just grab it when it's there then just release it when it's time to go. There's a lot of instinct, not planning.
book long chapters
Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.
book
We're just like a movie based on a book-- almost, but not quite as good. Pete Wentz
book wells
I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.
book writing want
I want to be a writer, not an engineer who writes books. Paulo Coelho
book believe eye
I simply believe that a book has a journey to make, and should not be condemned to being stuck on a shelf… Let’s leave our books free to travel, then, to be touched by other hands, and enjoyed by other eyes.
book reading made
He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.
book forget-everything forget
Read. Forget everything you've been told about books and read.
book boys sheep
People say strange things, the boy thought. Sometimes it's better to be with the sheep, who don't say anything. And better still to be alone with one's books. They tell their incredible stories at the time when you want to hear them. But when you're talking to people, they say some things that are so strange that you don't know how to continue the conversation.
book miracle brain
We buy books, we go to gyms, we expend a lot of brain power on trying to hold back time, when we should be celebrating the miracle of being here in this world.
book adventure night
He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. He had decided, the night before, that he would be as much an adventurer as the ones he had admired in books.
book threatening downloads
Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
book writing years
It took me 40 years to write my first book.
book writing soul
Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul
book hard-work son
I've always been a very restless person. I work hard, spend too much time looking after my son, I dance like a mad thing, I learned calligraphy. I go to courses on selling, I read one book after another. But that's all a way of avoiding those moments when nothing is happening, because those blank spaces give me a feeling of absolute emptiness, in which not a single crumb of love exists.
book computer difficult
It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
book past problem
Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past. Peter Sotos
book making-money publish
I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.
book pay too-much
I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
book writing ideas
My introduction to the Brady book was an attempt to nail the exact same idea since Brady addressed the point. And since I write pornography, naturally, something of an obsession for me.
book frozen doe
What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the lives of Iraqis as he does for the lives of Americans, or even frozen American embryos. Peter Singer
book reading moon
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close to a universal digital public library.