Quotes about book
book dull want
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull and it would also make no sense. Rachel Cohn
book darkness feels
I feel like there's so much darkness in all of my books.
book writing sea
If there is poetry in my book about the sea, it is not because I deliberately put it there, but because no one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry. Rachel Carson
book important use
The more I learned about the use of pesticides, the more appalled I became. I realized that here was the material for a book. What I discovered was that everything which meant most to me as a naturalist was being threatened, and that nothing I could do would be more important.
book blessed joy
Those who draw their sustenance from science are blessed. It is for me to only derive an occasional pleasure. This is nothing worthy of conceit, but I am indeed touched by the joys. This book is an ode to such joys, a digest of my collections from various sources. Rabindranath Tagore
book heart mind
The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart.
book bird rooms
I have read in books that we are called 'caged birds'. I cannot speak for others, but I had so much in this cage of mine that there was not room for it in the universe- at least that is what I then felt.
book england supremacy
That Book (the BIBLE) accounts for the supremacy of England Queen Victoria
book reality thinking
When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in books. You want them to overturn your life, create and define a new reality. Later, I think, you want them to do something milder, something more practical: you want them to support your life as it is and has become. You want them to tell you that things are OK. And is there anything wrong with that? Julian Barnes
book information looks
..books look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.
book life-is
Books are where things are explained to you; life is where things aren't.
book writing shelves
Write the book you've always wanted to read, but can't find on the shelf. Maggie Stiefvater
book horror filmmaker
Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
book hands going-away
This object that we hold in our hands, a book... that tactile pleasure, it's just not going to go away.
book important done
I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
book hair smell
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of her feet against my legs when she climbed into bed. I missed the shape of her shadow where it fell across the page of my book. I missed the smell of her hair and the sound of her breath and my Rilke on her nightstand and her wet towel thrown over the back of her desk chair. It felt like I should be sated after having a whole day with her, but it just made me miss her more.
book smell air
As the hours crept by, the afternoon sunlight bleached all the books on the shelves to pale, gilded versions of themselves and warmed the paper and ink inside the covers so that the smell of unread words hung in the air.
book writing lines
You could write a book about things that you can't find on-line.
book taken reading
I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it.
book wife cry
I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
book thinking challenges
I think that whenever a book is not a challenge, I'm telling the wrong story.
book hair soundtracks
Then I picked my book back up again and stroked her hair and read to the soundtrack of her breaths.
book ideas work-out
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
book matter good-book
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader.
book home pages
...she made her home in between the pages of books.
book reading library
I've always loved reading fantasy. I used to pick out all the books in the library that had the little unicorn sticker on the side to show that they were fantasy.
book thinking years
The right wing conservatives think it’s a decision that you can be cured with some treatment and religion.//Manmade rewiring of a predisposition//Oh no here we go, America the brave still fears what we don't know//But we paraphrase a book written 3500 years ago, I don't know… Macklemore
book hero character
I do a lot with characters' sense of identity. I also like challenging stereotypes, gender roles, things like that. Give me a stereotype or a genre expectation and the first thing I want to do is stand it on its head. In the Nightrunner books I wanted to see if I could create a believable gay hero, one who wasn't someone's sidekick or a victim. Lynn Flewelling
book pages alphabet
Does G get angry because it follows F in the alphabet? Does page 68 in a book start a revolution because it follows 67? Haruki Murakami
book mean logic
Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.
book way
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
book reading kids
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.
book writing realistic
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.