Quotes about book
book inspiration ideas
I've never really found inspiration for story ideas in the news, but I'd say it certainly affects our lives in so many ways. I would say that certainly the stories of the day appear in the work - I just have never gone so far as to say, well, this particular event could influence a plot of an entire book. Michael Koryta
book night careers
'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third person and I loved the feel of that, and it was different but it was also the same. 'So Cold the River,' I knew, was going to be really different, and that's why I thought about doing it as a novella under a pseudonym, because I didn't want to damage my career.
book fading arms
For it is humanly certain that most of us remember very little of what we have read. To open almost any book a second time is to be reminded that we had forgotten well-nigh everything that the writer told us. Parting from the narrator and his narrative, we retain only a fading impression; and he, as it were, takes the book away from us and tucks it under his arm. Siegfried Sassoon
book writing people
The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books. Sidney Sheldon
book sleep writing
Usually, when people get to the end of a chapter, they close the book and go to sleep. I deliberately write a book so when the reader gets to the end of the chapter, he or she must turn one more page.
book poor
Being poor is only romantic in books.
book smell texture
Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings. Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
book air library
I love the place; the magnificent books; I require books as I require air. Sholem Asch
book soul letters
When I first began to combine letters other than Hebrew, I read every book in German that came my way, and from these I certainly received according to the nature of my soul. Shmuel Yosef Agnon
book ignorance writing
Who were my mentors in poetry and literature? This is a matter of opinion. Some see in my books the influences of authors whose names, in my ignorance, I have not even heard, while others see the influences of poets whose names I have heard but whose writings I have not read. And what is my opinion? From whom did I receive nurture? Not every man remembers the name of the cow which supplied him with each drop of milk he has drunk.
book writing important
It may be important to write a book that doesn't come up to what I would like to have rather than to write no book at all. Sheri S. Tepper
book thinking age
Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.
book responsibility writing
There are writers who say they have no social responsibility except to write a good book, but that doesn't satisfy me.
book reading writing
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads. Sherman Alexie
book beer defense
Books and beer are the best and worst defense.
book kissing intelligent
I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss it. Yes, kiss it. That's right, I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.
book house kind
What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
book writing thinking
They've been screaming about the death of literacy for years, but I think TV is the Gutenberg [printing] press. I think TV is the only thing that keeps us vaguely in democracy even if it's in the hands of the corporate culture. If you're an artist you write in your time. Moaning about the fact that maybe people read more books a hundred years ago - that's not true. I think the same percentage has always read.
book native-american thinking
I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.
book taken moments
I suddenly understood that if every moment of a book should be taken seriously, then every moment of a life should be taken seriously as well.
book independent roots
I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
book three three-times
Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
book people library
The librarian spoke in a reverential whisper. Corliss knew she'd misjudged this passionate woman. Maybe she dressed poorly, but she was probably great in bed, certainly believed in God and goodness, and kept an illicit collection of overdue library books on her shelves.
book criticism care
The readers and the hearers like my books, And yet some writers cannot them digest; But what care I? for when I make a feast, I would my guests should praise it, not the cooks. John Harington
book details make-sense
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am." John Guare
book culture passionate
I'm passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures... I've lived with Masai tribe... I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. John Galliano
book men squares
The young man who, at the end of September, 1924, dismounted from a taxicab in South Square, Westminster, was so unobtrusively American that his driver had some hesitation in asking for double his fare. The young man had no hesitation in refusing it. John Galsworthy
book buddhism synthesizers
But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism. John Frusciante
book writing importance
I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance. John Entwistle
book library environmental
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books. John Dingell
book men world
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world. John Donne
book reading lovers
I shall die reading; since my book and a grave are so near.
book writing reality
The only excuse for a novelist, aside from the entertainment and vicarious living his books give the people who read them, is as a sort of second-class historian of the age he lives in. The "reality" he missed by writing about imaginary people, he gains by being able to build a reality more nearly out of his own factual experience than a plain historian or biographer can. John Dos Passos