Quotes about book
book writing important
Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built Leon Uris
book writing knowing
The first thing you have to do is get immersed in the project, organizing yourself, knowing what you are going after and not going after. It is extremely important to know what you don't want to find. Research to me is as important or more important than the writing. It is the foundation upon which the book is built.
book writing marine
I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps.
book battle nine
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
book borders looks
On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if my book was there?and it wasnt.
book writing challenges
The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all, speaks of what the book is about: fear of disapproval. Joyce Maynard
book writing nonfiction
Every time I write a nonfiction book I get sued. Joseph Wambaugh
book enjoy my-own
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
book writing dna
No one I know of has ever had this experience-where you had to sit and wait and wait for a DNA test to come back just so you can write the last page of the book.
book mean writing
I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.
book men islands
So many things were testing his faith. There was the Bible, of course, but the Bible was a book, and so were Bleak House, Treasure Island, Ethan Frome and The Last of the Mohicans. Did it then seem probable, as he had once overheard Dunbar ask, that the answers to riddles of creation would be supplied by people too ignorant to understand the mechanics of rainfall? Had Almighty God, in all His infinite wisdom, really been afraid that men six thousand years ago would succeed in building a tower to heaven? Joseph Heller
book hero adventure
I prefer the gradual path My feeling is that mythic forms reveal themselves gradually in the course of your life if you know what they are and how to pay attention to their emergence. My own initiation into the mythic depths of the unconscious has been through the mind, through the books that surround me in this library. I have recognized in my quest all the stages of the hero's journey. I had my calls to adventure, my guides, demons, and illuminations. Joseph Campbell
book writing mean
You know, I didn't write my books for critics and scholars. I wrote them for students and artists. When I hear how much my work has meant to them--well, I can't tell you how happy that makes me. That means that this great stuff of myth, which I have been so privileged to work with, will be kept alive for a whole new generation. That's the function of the artists, you know, to reinterpret the old stories and make them come alive again, in poetry, painting, and now in movies.
book reading writing
My writing is of a very different kind from anything I've heard about. All this mythological material is out there, a big gathering of stuff, and I have been reading it for some forty- or fifty-odd years. There are various ways of handling that. The most common is to put the material together and publish a scholarly book about it. But when I'm writing, I try to get a sense of an experiential relationship to the material. In fact, I can't write unless that happens ... I don't write unless the stuff is really working on me, and my selection of material depends on what works.
book reading imagination
I've turned down a lot of stuff. I've read several scripts and said "That's not me, I'm not interested in doing that." It's got to be something that inspires me and captures my imagination. I want to be able to say "There's a challenge.". Karl Urban
book taken ideas
Peter Watts has taken the core myths of the First Contact story and shaken them to pieces. The result is a shocking and mesmerizing performance, a tour-de-force of provocative and often alarming ideas. It is a rare novel that has the potential to set science fiction on an entirely new course. Blindsight is such a book. Karl Schroeder
book holiday sleep
The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone. Karl Pilkington
book new-books
The Web is the new book though, innit?
book years two
If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.
book giving half
I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book
book roots squares
A good preface must be the root and the square of the book at the same time. Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
book reading vacation
Reading-not occasionally, not only on vacation but everyday-gives me nourishment and enlarges my life in mysterious and essential ways. Mona Simpson
book thinking excited
I get really excited if I think I'm going to introduce somebody to a writer they haven't found before and I think they'll love. My favorite books to get as gifts are any that the giver is messianic about. Monica Ali
book may want
Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command. Monica Crowley
book grace important
Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace. Molly Ringwald
book mean thinking
I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.
book turning-40 spots
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
book writing thinking
I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter.
book years obsession
When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit. Mohsen Makhmalbaf
book world towns
I grew up in a small town in India, but through books I knew the world. Mira Nair
book writing want
I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the day that I don't want to forget. So I have books filled with little things like that. Miranda Cosgrove
book games tennis
But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
book reading editing
It is amazing how little effort most people make to improve control of their attention. If reading a book seems too difficult, instead of sharpening concentration we tend to set it aside and instead turn on the television, which not only requires minimal attention, but in fact tends to diffuse what little it commands with choppy editing, commercial interruptions, and generally inane content.