Quotes about book
book reading ideas
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea. Joshua Foer
book revelations symbols
The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols. Joseph Franklin Rutherford
book biblical long
It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered. Joseph Butler
book smell library
I've got a vendetta to destroy the Net, to make everyone go to the library. I love the organic thing of pen and paper, ink on canvas. I love going down to the library, the feel and smell of books. Joseph Fiennes
book
I collect books - a lot of books. Kate Spade
book writing humble
Life's so brief,” she goes on. “We're, at every juncture, staring mortality in the face. It's the very least we can do if we think it will be of any interest or value, to share the past. And although mine's been crooked, it's also been splendid. It's taught me to be vulnerable and humble, to write this book. Kate Mulgrew
book reading fighting
Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for. Kate Mosse
book together purpose
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader. Kate Morton
book simple self
I probably coughed self-pityingly in response, little aware that I was about to cross a tremendous threshold beyond which there would be no return, that in my hands I held an object whose simple appearance belied its profound power. All true readers have a book, a moment, like the one I describe, and when Mum offered me that much-read library copy mine was upon me.
book air together
His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.
book writing successful
Some say I'm an overnight success. Well, that was a very long night that lasted about 10 years. But while I do, of course, now feel the pressure having had books that have been very successful, I just know I have to concentrate on writing for myself. I can't worry about genres or markets or what might be commercial or not. That never works.
book feelings adults
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.
book given wanted
I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.
book taken character
She felt like a fictional character who'd escaped the book in which her creator had carefully and kindly trapped her, taken a pair of scissors to her outline and leaped, free...
book together were-meant-to-be
Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.
book intelligent thinking
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.
book thinking people
I think I have a good rapport with the people I work with and that really helps. If you like working with people and you always have a good time and you always do good work, then they're going to book you again. I like doing what I do. Kate Moss
book school writing
I've been writing since I'm five years old. I've been writing books since high school - junior high, high school. I write every single day. I never thought I'd be published. Karrine Steffans
book people video
Confessions of a Video Vixen' is not a book about my encounters with celebrities, or anyone else for that matter. It is my life story, thus far, which just so happens to include some people you may have heard of.
book champion breakfast
Although Kurt Vonnegut may not be considered a humor writer, 'Breakfast of Champions' is one of the funniest books I've ever read. Justin Halpern
book writing insane
Writing a book is incredibly pleasurable, but very solitary. You have total control, but sometimes that can drive you insane.
book writing unique
The Bible is obviously a mixed book. Literary and nonliterary (expository, explanatory) writing exist side by side within the covers of this unique book. Leland Ryken
book writing way
As I write in my book, there is a misnomer that destroying another person's position is an effective and practical way to negotiate. Leigh Steinberg
book sitting suits
There was a day where I was sitting at my desk, working 90-hour work weeks, in a suit, looking at a computer, with all these pitch books on my desk, and I just thought, 'This can't be my life. Laz Alonso
book writing feet
I read a lot of books. Here are the books I'm using for my 9/11 project. [Wright gestures to three six-foot-long shelves of books.] As I read them I highlight certain passages. Then I have an assistant write down each quote on an index card and note where it came from. Lawrence Wright
book thinking finished
I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet. Lawrence Welk
book voice mind
Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library. Laurel Lea
book twilight dvds
Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead! Lauren Bacall
book talking potters
It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Laurell K. Hamilton
book writing thinking
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
book writing worry
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
book writing pages
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print
book mean mystery
For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.