Quotes about book
book voice mind
Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library. Laurel Lea
book twilight dvds
Yes, I saw Twilight - my granddaughter made me watch it, she said it was the greatest vampire film ever. After the 'film' was over I wanted to smack her across her head with my shoe, but I do not want a (tell-all) book called Grannie Dearest written on me when I die. So instead I gave her a DVD of Murnau's 1922 masterpiece Nosferatu and told her, 'Now that's a vampire film!' And that goes for all of you! Watch Nosferatu instead! Lauren Bacall
book talking potters
It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named. Laurell K. Hamilton
book writing thinking
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
book writing worry
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
book writing pages
I am a very linear thinker, so I write beginning to end. I write hundreds of pages per book that never make it into print
book mean mystery
For me the Anita series is built like a mystery series, which means that as much as possible each book stands alone, so you have a mystery to solve from the beginning to the end of the book.
book writing hours-in-the-day
So many wonderful books to write, and not enough hours in the day. An embarrassment of riches.
book writing secret
Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.
book reading men
Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer? Langston Hughes
book writing men
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer - not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.
book thinking trying
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books. John Keegan
book wine doors
Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors, played by someone I do not know. I admire lolling on a lawn by a water-lilied pond to eat white currants and see goldfish: and go to the fair in the evening if I'm good. There is not hope for that -one is sure to get into some mess before evening. John Keats
book chests divides
My chest of books divide amongst my friends--
book night thinking
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold like rich garners the full ripen'd grain; When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance; And when I feel, fair creature of an hour, That I shall never look upon thee more, Never have relish in the faery power Of unreflecting love;--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.
book experience experiencing-things
We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the author.
book library needs
If you're rich you can buy books. If you're poor, you need a library. John Kenneth Galbraith
book writing men
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more easily purchased diplomat.
book writing joy
I never enjoyed writing a book more; indeed, it is the only one I remember in no sense as a labor but as a joy.
book faithful fields
I've been a faithful reader of the great classical documents of economics, or tried to be. The first book in the field that I ever read was Principles of Economics by Alfred Marshall. I suppose subsequently I would have to pick out Keynes, Adam Smith, Marx.
book writing sugar
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack is dizzyingly brilliant. Mark Leyner is a hyperkinetic shaman, who flies the banner of rum and candy and writes like a one-eyed feral bandit. His new book is supremely original, delirious and synapse-shattering. John Cusack
book thinking hair
Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are an interesting woman Amelia." Gooseflesh rose wherever his breath touched. "I can't f-fathom why you would think so." His playful mouth traced the wing of her brow. "I find you thoroughly, deeply interesting. I want to open you like a book and read every page." A smile curved the corners of his lips as he added huskily, "Footnotes included. Lisa Kleypas
book writing planning
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it. Lois McMaster Bujold
book character writing
I've always tried to write the kind of book I most loved to read: character-centered adventure.
book kids people
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates. Lloyd Jones
book eye flames
You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.
book perks changed
I'm doing 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'... It was a book I read when I was younger, and it just changed my life, and I just wanted to be a part of it. Logan Lerman
book writing support
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history. Lynn Abbey
book reading writing
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm reading books about history, computers, or embroidery.
book writing orphan
I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans.
book believe character
I'm one of those writers who, when writing, believes she's god-and that she hasn't bestowed free will on any of her characters. In that sense there are no surprises in any of my books.
book reading writing
You can't know what a book is about until the very end. This is true of a book we're reading or writing. Lynda Barry
book hands alive
When we finish a book, why do we hold it in both hands and gaze at it as if it were somehow alive?