Quotes about book
book secret library
We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets. Kathy Bates
book joy lasts
In fact, isn't it a joy - there is hardly a greater one - to find a new book, a living book, and to know that it will remain with you while life lasts? Katherine Mansfield
book reading literacy
The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
book kind changed
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed. Katherine Paterson
book creative mind
Once a book is published, it no longer belongs to me. My creative task is done. The work now belongs to the creative mind of my readers. I had my turn to make of it what I would, now it is their turn.
book writing thinking
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied were the spider and the novelist - their lives hanging by a thread spun out of their own guts. But in some ways I think writers of fiction are the creatures most to be envied, because who else besides the spider is allowed to take that fragile thread and weave it into a pattern? What a gift of grace to be able to take the chaos from within and from it to create some semblance of order.
book media two
I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.
book writing fighting
You don't have to fight dragons to write books. You just have to live deeply the life you've been given.
book moving thinking
I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
book writing hard-work
Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult. Kate Christensen
book magazines pay
Although the point of blogging is that it doesn't pay, I often steal from my blog for paid publication. I've based several magazine essays on blog posts, as well as an entire book.
book care finished
I knew a book of mine was finished when I was in intensive care. Kate Braverman
book simple hands
We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award Kate DiCamillo
book writing light
Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.
book kids writing
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
book writing goal
May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
book writing two-friends
I remember wanting to write a book with someone, the someone being Kate [DiCamillo], and we decided to write about two friends. We had no idea how to begin this project - neither of us had ever collaborated with another writer - and I'm pretty sure that we began by giving our two friends a sock, just to see what they'd do with it. And it went from there.
book phones people
I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book.
book writing
We [me and Alison McGhee] probably wouldn't have said that when we were writing the stories, but it is so apparent to me in the finished product. For me, looking at Bink, it's like looking at myself on the page in a way that I've never experienced with any other book that I've written.
book thinking virtue
It's a book [Bink & Gollie] about shortness and tallness, so I think it's appropriate to discuss the virtues of shortness.
book too-much ifs
Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much. Karin Slaughter
book long stories
Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending will leave you breathless.
book albums chapters
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
book writing feels
I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write. Karen Thompson Walker
book writing appreciate
I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I hope that people continue to read books, even though we have so many other options for entertainment.
book opposites editors
I was a book editor for nine years. I'm familiar with the opposite experience, bracing myself for the likelihood that no one would want to publish my book.
book attention chance
It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of eventually catching someone's attention.
book home trying
I'm a gastronome first and foremost. I have several bookshelves in my home full of cookbooks, foodie magazines and food writer books and I am always on the hunt for a great recipe or local foodie haunt to try. Karen Walker
book objectivity fiction
My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. Im drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution. Karen Traviss
book writing greed
When Paul [Greengrass] was writing, he'd send me story ideas that he had. He was particularly interested in social movements and revolutions that had been happening all over the world, and how computers and the internet had helped those movements. He encouraged me to read a book about Anonymous, the hacker group called "white hat" hackers, meaning they're driven by ideology and social disruption as opposed to just greed. Julia Stiles
book firsts documentaries
I coauthored my first nonfiction book by the time I was 25. I have been involved in nonfiction documentaries, newspapers, TV and internet since that time. Julian Assange
book reading looks
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like.
book reading live-your-life
Life … is a bit like reading. … If all your responses to a book have already been duplicated and expanded upon by a professional critic, then what point is there to your reading? Only that it’s yours. Similarly, why live your life? Because it’s yours. But what if such an answer becomes less and less convincing? Julian Barnes