Quotes about book
book writing stories
Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one. Grace Paley
book
Any book is better than no book. Slowly, surely, one will lead you to another, which will lead you to the best. J. R. Moehringer
book writing second-chance
I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life. J. R. Martinez
book dark moon
The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods. H. P. Lovecraft
book home boys
I have dwelt ever in realms apart from the visible world; spending my youth and adolescence in ancient and little-known books, and in roaming the fields and groves of the region near my ancestral home. I do not think that what I read in these books or saw in these fields and groves was exactly what other boys read and saw there; but of this I must say little, since detailed speech would but confirm those cruel slanders upon my intellect which I sometimes overhear from the whispers of the stealthy attendants around me.
book men stories
We usually break the story first. For instance, on The Monuments Men, and this one is more complicated because there's a lot of history, so before we started, we sat down with Robert Edsel, the author of the book, for about a week, and basically, he just gave us a lecture and went through everything. And then, I had a researcher, somebody who we had actually used on Argo. Grant Heslov
book character lasts
Unlike novel characters, comic book characters last an eternity. When a character is changed beyond recognition, there's no longer the merchandising aspect. Grant Morrison
book writing want
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics can do a lot of things that movies can't do, and vice versa.
book disease looks
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. Georg C. Lichtenberg
book forbidden forefathers
One of our forefathers must have read a forbidden book.
book reading mean
To read means to borrow; to create out of one s readings is paying off one's debts.
book thinking ideas
A writer who wishes to be read by posterity must not be averse to putting hints which might give rise to whole books, or ideas for learned discussions, in some corner of a chapter so that one should think he can afford to throw them away by the thousand.
book taken believe
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not to do that, therefore, that I have taken up my pen, but merely so as to annoy them, and to bestow strength and courage on those on our own side, and to make it known to the others that they have not convinced us.
book ifs
If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.
book writing sound
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
book evidence grows
It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.
book would-be banned-books
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.
book you-like-it good-book
A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.
book people world
There can hardly be a stranger commodity in the world than books. Printed by people who don't understand them; sold by people who don't understand them; bound, criticized and read by people who don't understand them; and now even written by people who don't understand them.
book world should
A book which, above all others in the world, should be forbidden, is a catalogue of forbidden books.
book reading air
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
book writing play
If it is permissible to write plays that are not intended to be seen, I should like to see who can prevent me from writing a book no one can read.
book common-sense religion
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.
book abandoned finished
A book is never finished; it's abandoned. Gene Fowler
book space accomplishment
Today, we are on a path of decay. We are seeing the book close on five decades of accomplishment as the leader in human space exploration. Gene Cernan
book writing games
The books I write because I want to read them, the games because I want to play them, and stories I tell because I find them exciting personally. Gary Gygax
book thinking office
I'm not one of those professors whose office is encased floor-to-ceiling with books. By the way, I think academics do this to intimidate their visitors. Gary Hamel
book writing order
In Russia there is an emigration of intelligence: émigrés cross the frontier in order to read and to write good books. But in doing so they contribute to making their fatherland, abandoned by spirit, into the gaping jaws of Asia that would like to swallow our little Europe. Friedrich Nietzsche
book opponents spirit
A book full of brilliance imparts some of it even to its opponents.
book men criticism
We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal.
book reading smell
Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them.
book passion boredom
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it -those quarter-hours of profoundest contemplation within oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he will never get to drink the strongest refreshing draught from his own innermost fountain.
book blessed apology
We are, indeed, not among the least contented. You, however, if your belief makes you blessed then appear to be blessed! Your faces have always been more injurious to your belief than our objections have! If these glad tidings of your Bible were written on your faces, you would not need to insist so obstinately on the authority of that book ... As things are, however, all your apologies for Christianity have their roots in your lack of Christianity; with your defense plea you inscribe your own bill of indictment.