Quotes about book
books skilled
Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.
books public
Let?s just say you?re not going to see these books at the public library. Emily Johnson
books love watching
You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents. A. S. Byatt
book ideas firsts
I've always dabbled. I've always nearly written a book, I've always tried painting, I've always tried to make something out of ideas, really. It was never a plan. I never thought, "Right. First I'll get famous, and then I'll do a book. Ricky Gervais
book library
Why buy a book when you can join a library?
book books judged process published quite
The process you have to go through to get a book published is quite difficult, because books are judged by essentially serious-minded people. Nick Hornby
book characters dark engaged moral nature require sort whom wish
I like characters who are changed, often for the better, by the dark nature of their experiences. I also can become engaged by a character for whom I wish to see justice done, one way or the other. In general, I require a book to have some sort of moral center. Thomas H. Cook
book comic friend fun nerd nerds nerdy people theater theatre
My theater nerd world and my comic friend world are colliding... That's the thing that I was nerdy about, was theatre. I wasn't as much into the comic book stuff. So it's fun to see there are people that are into that that are also theatre nerds like me. Tom Lenk
book copy edition fiction gave noted ray science work
When I was fifteen, my father gave me a first edition copy of Ray Bradbury's magnificent work, 'The Martian Chronicles.' I had read other science fiction by noted authors, but this book was something else altogether. Thomas Steinbeck
books-and-reading collection depends finished greatest professors university
What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books. Thomas Carlyle
book intelligent ordinary
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject are written by academics, for academics. But I am not an academic. Brian Crozier
book writing kids
Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped. Brent Runyon
book writing work-out
Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.
book people literature
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book. Brent Weeks
book looks sigh
So…” Kimball looks at his book helplessly. “There’s nothing you can tell me about Paul Owen?” “Well.” I sigh. “He led what I suppose was an orderly life, I guess. “ Really stumped, I offer, “He...ate a balanced diet. Bret Easton Ellis
book feelings way
Every book for me is an exorcism in some way or another, working through my feelings at the time.
book writing thinking
If I want to write a movie, I'll write a screenplay, but if I have an idea for a book, it's something that I think can only be done novelistically.
book able way
It's the rare book that's able to transport you in a way that a movie does.
book thinking sensibility
I think my sensibility is very literary; all my books were built as books, and I wasn't thinking about them being movies.
book writing thinking
I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea and a situation that I think is a really good idea for a movie. When I'm writing a book, I'm not thinking, "Oh, this would be a great movie." This would be a very interesting book. And I think the books are things that cannot really be adapted into another medium.
book two interesting
Michel Houellebecq is the most interesting, provocative and important European novelist of my generation. Period. No one else comes close. He has written two or maybe three great books, and his latest, The Map and the Territory, is one of them.
book thinking looks
I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.
book writing want
There’s no grand plan. All I know is that I write the books I want to write. All that other stuff is meaningless to me.
book writing past
You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.
book writing
I actually was doing ghostwriting jobs since I was 17 years old, so I've been supporting myself off and on with writing jobs for almost 10 years. But those were all things that I did off the books. And now I do a lot more writing on the books. Brady Corbet
book party writing
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. Boris Johnson
book men equal
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women. Booker T. Washington
book people soul
In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
book writing thinking
I could write an entirely new book about Andy Warhol, but I don't think I will. I certainly don't think Nancy Reagan would like that, as she's been patiently waiting for Volume 2 of my chronicle of the life of her and Ronnie. Bob Colacello
book wind decision
Well, it wasn't really a decision on my part although you always hope as an author that a book that goes out of print somehow winds up back in print. These days publishers like to put out-of-print books into e-book form, but I really wanted to do an update.
book mean guy
I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him, ... I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics. Bob Dole
book scott-fitzgerald crooks
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books. Bob Dylan
book people dimes
People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations.