Quotes about book
book writing plot
At the time I begin writing a novel, the last thing I want to do is follow a plot outline. To know too much at the start takes the pleasure out of discovering what the book is about. Elmore Leonard
book heart tragedy
My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history. Ellen Tauscher
book brain nonfiction
I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain. Ellen Pompeo
book thinking space
I'm not a fancy person. I love small spaces. I like tiny cars. I don't buy things, aside from music and books. I don't get loads of attention and maybe it's because I'm kind of boring. I don't think I'm boring, but I have different interests. I don't go out much, not because I'm hiding but because I'm not a big drinker. I go out and have a good time, I go to concerts and stuff. Ellen Page
book reading thinking
I was in a store in Halifax, Nova Scotia that I love, sort of like an environmental friendly sort of store. But they had a great book section. So I went in there all the time. The woman who worked there - which I feel so bad; I've forgotten her name - she handed me the book and she said, "Hey, you should read this. I think it would make a good movie." I remember reading the back of it and I was like, "Huh." Then I just devoured the book and I was so moved by it and said, "Why don't we start developing this into a film?" So that's how it [Into the Forest] all started.
book long remember
I remember having been with this book [Into the Forest] for a long time, and I remember the moment that she [Patricia Rozema] sent me the script and what it was like to read it for the first time. I just was so blown away by how she managed to capture the story and their relationship to each other, and the nuances of that.
book safe-environment want
I'm not very much an open book, I do really express myself only through my music and when I'm in that safe environment and I don't have to let anything go out of the studios that I don't want to go out. Ella Henderson
book dramatic ebb great million stories tension
A Million Little Pieces. I wanted the stories in the book to ebb and flow, to have dramatic arcs, to have the tension that all great stories require. James Frey
book duality forbidden friend islam mine muslim paradise points precisely rewarded righteous similar
A Muslim friend of mine who has just read the book points out to me that Islam retains a similar duality over paradise. In paradise the righteous are rewarded with precisely what is forbidden on earth.
book censorship dollar fight helps librarians royalties sale students teachers
All of our royalties from the sale of the book go to NCAC. Every dollar helps them fight censorship and helps the teachers and students and librarians who are under fire. Judy Blume
book censorship dollar fight helps librarians royalties sale students teachers
All of our royalties from the sale of the book go to NCAC, ... Every dollar helps them fight censorship and helps the teachers and students and librarians who are under fire.
books diaries felt grew natural since smile written
All of the narration in 'Smile' is first-person. Most of the books that I grew up reading had first-person narrators for some reason. My diaries were written in this voice, and since this story is autobiographical, it just felt like a natural extension. Raina Telgemeier
books bottom figures line publishers safe safest selling
All the figures show that film-makers and publishers go for the safe option. You go for the safest bottom line and as long as Dahl is selling a lot of books you can't go wrong.
books contain extremely historical lies tedious
All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious Anatole France
books everywhere influences travel
And all of those things: my religion, my politics, my family, my friends, the books I read, everywhere I travel - that influences everything I do. Mandy Patinkin
book reading people
I'm really not responsible for what mental operation people have when they're reading my books other than the ones which are created by literary effects. Edward St Aubyn
book knows
What an author doesn't know could fill a book. Holly Black
book writing thinking
I remember everyone telling me I had to think positive when I was writing my first book. If I believed I could do it, then I could! If I pictured myself published, then it was going to happen! Which sounded great, except...could I do it? If I didn't think I could, was I doomed to fail? What if I was almost totally sure I would fail? I am here to tell you-what matters is sticking with it.
book holy-grail firsts
A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series.
book belief living-things
It is my belief that books are living things.
book reading knowledge-and-power
Librarians are hot. They have knowledge and power over their domain...It is no coincidence how many librarians are portrayed as having a passionate interior, hidden by a cool layer of reserve. Aren't books like that? On the shelf, their calm covers belie the intense experience of reading one. Reading inflames the soul. Now, what sort of person would be the keeper of such books?
book character thinking
I think it's a bit like coming to the end of a book. The plot's in its thickest, all the characters are in a mess, but you can see that there aren't fifty pages left, and you know that the finish can't be far off. Herman Wouk
book income fiction
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
book boys ideas
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught. Hermann Hesse
book ideas taught
The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught.
book writing humanity
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
book mean writing
"For even the most childish intoxication with progress will soon be forced to recognize that writing and books have a function that is eternal. It will become evident that formulations in words and the handling on of these formulations through writing are not only important aids but actually the only means by which humanity can have a history and continuing consciousness of itself."
book angel ice
All the books of the world full of thoughts and poems are nothing in comparison to a minute of sobbing, when feeling surges in waves, the soul feels itself profoundly and finds itself. Tears are the melting ice of snow. All angels are close to the crying person.
book way gone
The day had gone by just as days go by. I had killed it in accordance with my primitive and retiring way of life.
book herbs bees
As great a store Have we of books as bees of herbs or more. Henry Vaughan
book voyages ships
I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
book reading heart
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
book
Books are sepulchres of thought.