Quotes about book
book writing doubt
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship to books and not to living masters of the craft. Madison Smartt Bell
book writing convinced
With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me. Madeleine L'Engle
book writing might
Stories have a richness that goes way beyond fact. My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don't expect to go.
book writing hands
It's not my brain that's writing the book, it's these hands of mine.
book light illumination
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair and that there is no light in the darkness; we want to feel that we have been given illumination.
book writing
A book comes and says, 'Write me.
book writing order
It is all, as usual, paradox. I have to use what intellect I have in order to write books, but I write the kind of books I do in order that I may try to set down glimpses of things that are on the other side of the intellect. We do not go around and discard the intellect, but we must go through and beyond it.
book writing stories
My writing knows more than I know. What a writer must do is listen to her book. It might take you where you don’t expect to go. That’s what happens when you write stories. You listen and you say ‘a ha,’ and you write it down. A lot of it is not planned, not conscious; it happens while you’re doing it. You know more about it after you’re done.
book giving people
All writers learn this, in time: don't show your work to other people until it's safely finished. Even discussing your unborn book in quite general terms can be such an undermining experience that, afterwards, you give it up and go to live in Guatemala. Lynne Truss
book hands errors
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives who get things out of proportion and are in continual peril of being disowned by our exasperated families.
book journey voice
We read privately, mentally listening to the author's voice and translating the writer's thoughts. The book remains static and fixed; the reader journeys through it.
book men ideas
If men were but to read the New Testament with the same tone and emphasis, with which they do other books, and were to keep out of mind the idea of its being sacred, they would be disgusted with the credulity, and the want of intellect, reason and judgment, that is apparent in it. Lysander Spooner
book apples fire
A plate of apples, an open fire, and a jolly good book are a fair substitute for heaven. Lucy Maud Montgomery
book names shame
Steal not this book for fear of shame For on it is the owners name And when you die the Lord will say Where is the book you stole away And when you say you do not know The Lord will say go down below.
book drunkards
I am simply a book drunkard.
book revelations book-of-revelation
There is a book of Revelation in every one's life, as there is in the Bible.
book writing temptation
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
book blessing would-be
Blessings be the inventor of the alphabet, pen and printing press! Life would be -- to me in all events -- a terrible thing without books.
book sleep cereal
As long as we’ve got somewhere to sleep, a bowl of cereal, and a coloring book we’ll be fine. Louis Tomlinson
book character two
You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen. Louisa May Alcott
book good-company company
Books are always good company if you have the right sort.
book thinking people
My book came out; and people began to think that topsy-turvy Louisa would amount to something after all.
book library bliss
...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her.
book castles delight
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement.
book reading learning
She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain.
book good-friend select
Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.
book clouds air
Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air.
book soul-and-body good-company
Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can
book heart joy
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.
book writing thinking
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.
book missing grace
Tell me my copy is missing the last twenty pages or something. Hazel Grace, tell me I have not reached the end of this book. OH MY GOD DO THEY GET MARRIED OR NOT OH MY GOD WHAT IS THIS?! John Green
book character thinking
Like, in general I think people have very complicated reasons for wanting things, and we often have no idea whether we’re actually motivated by altruism or a desire to hook up or a search for answers or what. I always get annoyed when in books or movies characters want clear things for clear reasons, because my experience of humanness is that I always want messy things for messy reasons.
book names museums
The book was turned to the page with Anne Frank's name, but what got me about it was the fact that right beneath her name there were four Aron Franks. FOUR. Four Aron Franks without museums, without historical markers, without anyone to mourn them. I silently resolved to remember and pray for the four Aron Franks as long as I was around.