Quotes about book
book wizards wonderful
Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made what they were not-imaginative , tolerant, alert to wonders, life. Gore Vidal
book writing age
I started to read my first book at about the age of six. I started to write a book simultaneously. Not to compete, just to augment. And that's how one starts. Or I started.
book reading eye
People are worse educated than they used to be. Certainly they are not very interested in reading books, as opposed to watching television, movies. They are used to getting things through the eye and the ear. In a small way, literature goes on being written, but few people like it. Once it's bureaucratized by the schoolteachers, the game's up.
book facts literature
What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.
book world may
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
book writing done
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.
book writing past
Writing of history is our only heuristic principle. The Germans have a word for it, einfühlen. It is the ability to experience the past in the present and to recreate it. In my books, I have tried to recreate it in the most natural way possible: History must be integrated into the story without the weight of premonition.
book ignorance world
How marvelous books are, crossing worlds and centuries, defeating ignorance and, finally, cruel time itself.
book reading intimate-relationships
I have an intimate relationship with books. After all, I take them with me into the bathtub-not an invitation I offer lightly. Gina Barreca
book character men
People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. Gillian Flynn
book transition
I'm all for whatever transitions the book properly to a movie.
book giving worry
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!'
books checks guy jacket leaves library minutes player puts takes
He's the only player I've ever had who checks books out of my library in my office. This guy can read a book in about 15 minutes I think. He checks them out. He takes the jacket off, leaves the jacket, then puts it back on when he comes back. Dusty Baker
book changed marrow time
He said at the time that the book scraped him down to the marrow of his bones. It changed him.
book decided
He said let's go down. We did this book together, so I decided to come down. Paul Hornung
book gary handled quite tough
Gary is a pretty tough cookie. Over the years he has handled quite a bit. I don't know what's in the book and other than that, I'm not going to comment. Brian Cashman
book books-and-reading knew smart spoke
Garth was smart enough that he could have done just about anything. He was book savvy, and the things he knew, he knew well. He spoke with confidence.
books-and-reading few general pioneering served
General histories-there have been a few that have served as pioneering books. Iris Chang
books books-and-reading good reading studying
Good thought can be imbibed by reading and studying good books and by contemplating on them.
book men rising-up
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and genius as if both were high-spirited freedom, as if man were rising up on tiptoe and simply had to dance out of inner pleasure. Friedrich Nietzsche
book heart character
I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful." But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.— Altered opinions do not alter a man’s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable.
book writing greek
It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.
book ambition doe
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of 'eternity'; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
book men intimate
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to seek out the most hidden and intimate things.
book grateful done
A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.
book ink born
Never to read another book that was born and baptized (with ink) at the same time.
book writing long
A book should long for pen, ink, and writing-table: but usually it is pen, ink, and writing-table that long for a book. That is why books are so negligible nowadays.
book doe transport
What good is a book that does not even transport us beyond all books?
book hands way
Writers ought to be regarded as wrongdoers who deserve to be acquitted or pardoned only in the rarest cases: that would be a way to keep books from getting out of hand.
book knows
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows.
book hands shoes
It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots.
book two guy
This is the sixth book I've written, which isn't bad for a guy who's only read two. George Burns
book reading writing
I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book. So relax, read it, and if you don't enjoy it, remember that you're saving money.