Quotes about book
book reading talking
Also, I've spent an entire week without reading any books or talking about them too loudly. I'm learning to work my apparat's screen, the colourful pulsating mosaic of it, the fact that it knows every last stinking detail about the world, whereas my books only know the minds of their authors. Gary Shteyngart
book kids people
I love librarians more than any other people in the world. When I was an immigrant kid, they’ve made me feel like a human being and they gave me books that taught me English.
book possession
I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
book people needs
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
book men needs
All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!
book artist firsts
My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.
book world want
I felt the weakness of these books, their immateriality, how they had failed to change the world, and I didn't want to sully myself with their weakness anymore.
book reading ideas
It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that. Gary Oldman
book play apples
I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with. Gabe Newell
book thinking easy
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
book eye writing
In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
book responsibility years
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.
book writing soul
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
book writing underwear
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a book, I accumulate a lot of documentation. That background material is the most intimate part of my private life. It's a little embarrassing - like being seen in your underwear It's like the way magicians never tell others how they make a dove come out of a hat.
book novelists truth-is
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
book one-hundred-years-of-solitude ends
In the end all books are written for your friends.
book want musician
Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into! Frank Iero
book years feelings
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book. Francoise Sagan
book reality men
A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books. Francois Mitterrand
book our-world forget-everything
I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world. Francoise Hardy
book men brain
Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them. George Horace Lorimer
book asks
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books). George Herbert
book emotional purpose
The purpose of bread and circuses is, as Neil Postman said in his book Amusing Ourselves to Death, to distract, to divert emotional energy towards the absurd and the trivial and the spectacle while you are ruthlessly stripped of power. Chris Hedges
book intellectual culture
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture. Not because I'm such a high brow intellectual and bloody European. But it's just something that I was never into. Not because of any superiority. I don't know why. Christoph Waltz
book culture comic
I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
book ignorance different
If I jumped into the cliché, everybody will have seen it before. If I stick to my ignorance a little bit, maybe, maybe it will turn out different. Or maybe a slightly new aspect to a comic book villain.
book would-be stories
If I don't tell it all now, the story in the history books will always be imperfect and that would be wrong. Christine Keeler
book blue ideas
Vernon Reis opened the world to me through books. He taught me that while I was physically firmly planted in blue-collar Auburn, Washington in the 50s and early 60s, intellectually I could go anywhere, explore anything, and sample exciting new ideas simply by opening a book. Christine Gregoire
book trying library
-Mikhail?...Try making suggestions next time, or just plain asking. You go do whatever it is you're doing, and I'll go search you extensive library for a book on manners. -You will not find it. -Why am I not surprised? Christine Feehan
book writing stories
I write for the love of writing. If I never published another book, I would still be writing stories.
book writing challenges
The most enjoyable part in writing a series is being able to visit a world I have created and revisit old friends. The challenges are making the book fresh and new for readers who have started from the beginning while still adding old information for new readers.
book weight gains
Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role Christian Slater
book writing distinction
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.