Quotes about book
books books-and-reading looking morning night spent
We did wine-tasting in the morning and spent night after night looking at books of wallpaper.
books jane record track
Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival. Kate Atkinson
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People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm going to be moving to a laptop really soon, but I was one of the last guys to let the vinyl go. I was crying. In my room, I still have thousands of records. I still pull them out and play them all the time. Kaskade
book database denied gluttony information knowledge patience reading sustenance wisdom yield
Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin. James Gleick
books kids worried
I understand why parents worry about books - they're worried about their kids. They want to keep their kids safe. But parents aren't always realistic. Lauren Myracle
books fall fiction historical middle
My books fall in the wobbly middle between historical fiction and historical romance. Lauren Willig
books stop
I'm always in search of those books where you don't want to stop reading, and 'Me Before You' is at the top of that list. Lauren Weisberger
books change episodes held separate series shaped
Not all series books are sagas. Some are shaped more like beads on a string, separate episodes held together by a set of characters, who may or may not grow and change as the series continues. Katharine Kerr
books broke looking people push time wrote
Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I want to write what people want to read, not push any message. Ken Follett
book four house open passed people
We had an open house when we launched the book and 900 people passed through in the first four hours.
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When we raise tuition five or three dollars a credit or when books go up, for many of these students this is the difference between their being able to go to school and not go to school.
book four knowledge market three
When you're out for three or four years, you've got book knowledge and the market doesn't want that,
book good mad people
When you write the truth, a lot of people get mad ... But, hey, a good book is a good book. Gwen Davis
book cannot character complex means narratives scottish-writer spin
Writing a children's book means you cannot spin out long narratives or have complex character development.
book broke children feed learned matter rule summer taught water
What is it about summer that makes children grow? We feed and water them more. They do get more sun, but that probably doesn't matter as much as the book they read or the rule they broke that taught them something they couldn't have learned any other way. Nancy Gibbs
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No matter how beautiful and loved a cover may be, the jury on it remains uncommitted until the book has been in the world for a while. Perhaps bookstore buyers will be indifferent. Perhaps it will be lost on store shelves. Perhaps there's another book or two out there using the same or a similar photo. Nancy Werlin
books central freelance grand known published
I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books. Nalo Hopkinson
book home hurry school
I never wanted to be a writer. I wanted to be a book illustrator. I used to hurry home from school and draw. Natalie Babbitt
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For commercial books in a genre, readers' and editors' expectations may be fairly rigid. Some romance lines, for instance, issue fairly detailed writers' guidelines explaining exactly what must happen in a book they publish (and what must not). Nancy Kress
book thinking views
You're sincere, but in order not to upset your views you avoid talking with people who think differently. You pick your thoughts from conversations with people like yourself, from books written by people like yourself. In physics they call it resonance. You start out with modest opinions, but they match and build each other up to a scale ... Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
book writing opportunity
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture. Alejandro Jodorowsky
book reality may
In this book it is spoken of the Sephiroth and the Paths; of Spirits and Conjurations; of Gods, Spheres, Planes, and many other things which may or may not exist. It is immaterial whether these exist or not. By doing certain things certain results will follow; students are most earnestly warned against attributing objective reality or philosophic validity to any of them. Aleister Crowley
book soul world
I must make MAGICK the essential factor in the life of ALL. In presenting this book to the world, I must then explain and justify my position by formulating a definition of MAGICK and setting forth its main principles in such a way that ALL may understand instantly that their souls, their lives, in every relation with every other human being and every circumstance, depend upon MAGICK and the right comprehension and right application thereof.
book mean squares
You must on no account attempt to use the squares given in the Book of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin the Mage until you have succeeded in the Operation. More, unless you mean to perform it, and are prepared to go to any length to do so, you are a fool to have the book in your possession at all. Those squares are liable to get loose and do things on their own initiative; and you won't like it.
book messages should
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
book heart vanity
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction. Alberto Moravia
book pages who-we-are
Our books will bear witness for or against us, our books reflect who we are and who we have been, our books hold the share of pages granted to us from the Book of Life. By the books we call ours we will be judged Alberto Manguel
book hands fire
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
book writing pages
A writer stops writing the moment he or she puts the last full stop to their text, and at that point the book is in limbo and doesn't come to life until the reader picks it up and the reader flips the pages.
book reading important
Our society accepts the book as a given, but the act of reading -- once considered useful and important, as well as potentially dangerous and subversive -- is now condescendingly accepted as a pastime, a slow pastime that lacks efficiency and does not contribute to the common good.
book erotic skins
In the books by Ruy-Sanchez we find again the erotic conviction that allows us to read with all the skin. The erotic, in his narratives is not a subject or a phrase, it is the clay of what they are made. In his novels every experience, trivial or extraordinary, breaths through the erotic.
book technology cds
In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.
book waiting feelings
I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.