Quotes about book
book thinking people
I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read. Thomas Perry
book interesting long
Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far.
book reading perspective
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective. Robert Musil
book unusual cases
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just as rare for it to be one or the other. It is usually both.
book people investing
In the book of things people more often do wrong than right, investing must certainly top the list, followed closely by wallpapering and eating artichokes Robert Klein
book writing good-enough
Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do. Robert Kirkman
book thinking years
Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.
book safety three
I will say that Rick will probably die before the end of the book. I'll go ahead and put that in print. Nobody's safe. I've almost killed him three times already.
book thinking issues
I think Walking Dead is one of the friendliest new reader type books in that every time a new trade is shipped out, a new issue is shipped out at the same time.
book people pompeii
People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii) Robert Harris
book infinite possibility
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.
book law together
50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't know what to expect. It ended up we got along really well. That's why we decided to do a book together, The 50th Law of Power. Robert Greene
book perception wish
My greatest wish is that a certain way of looking at the world, a way I show in all of my books, gets into my readers' heads, and slowly alters their perception.
book thinking years
I often daydream about the future, thinking of the world in 100, 200 years, imagining what it looks like, feels like. I hope that my books are like ghosts that will inhabit this future.
book ideas skins
The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or whomever, are influenced by these books.
book years new-orleans
I've had a five- or six-year down-spell as a writer, and now that most of the other contracts are cleared or down to the last book, I have a chance to do what I want to do - specifically, something set in New Orleans. Robert Asprin
book falcon
Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon Robert B. Parker
book writing term
I really don't know what I am going to do in terms of what a book is going to be about until I actually start writing it!
book thinking artist
Heidegger wrote a book called Was Ist Das Ding - What Is a Thing? which was kind of interesting and influential to me, as a matter of fact. It's a small paperback, which I read. It's about the nature of thingness; what is it? It's a very penetrating analysis of that, and I think a rather influential book. I know other artists who have read it and come up with it. Robert Barry
book nun
Here's to the good Nuns for telling me what books NOT to read! Robert Anton Wilson
book reading fiction
The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.
book writing people
Money, after all, is an abstract artifact, like language - merely symbolized by the paper or coin or whatever. If you can fully grasp its abstractedness, especially in the computer age, it becomes quite clear that no group can monopolize this abstraction, except through a series of swindle. If the usurers had been bolder, they might have monopolized language as well as currency, and people would be saying we can't write more books because we don't have enough words, the way they now say we can't build starships, because we don't have enough money.
book past may
The book says we may be through with the past but the past ain't through with us. Ricky Jay
book four three
I'm already in the (record) books three or four times. Rickey Henderson
book fiction biographies
I like to read biographies of authors that I love, like Richard Yates. I also like to see what non-fiction authors are out there. My bible is Something Happened. It's one of the greatest books I've ever read. But if I don't read a Dostoevsky soon I'm going to kill myself. Richard Lewis
book reading islands
Unlike television, reading does not swallow the senses or dictate thought. Reading stimulates the ecology of the imagination. Can you remember the wonder you felt when first reading The Jungle Book or Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn? Kipling’s world within a world; Twain’s slow river, the feel of freedom and sand on the secret island, and in the depths of the cave? Richard Louv
book heart writing
In his heart everyone knows that the only people who get rich from the "get rich quick" books are those who write them. Richard M. Nixon
book party hard-work
I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me. Rhys Ifans
book world starting
As if there's a world that exists that you're semi-privy to yet can't quite penetrate - that's how it feels when you're starting a book. Rebecca Miller
book writing roots
Writing is acting in the sense that you're imagining and inhabiting another. In the book I was trying to get at the root of what true acting is.
book creating scotch
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape. Richard Scarry
book thinking ideas
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing. Richard Rorty
book thinking trying
I want that which is hilarious and that which is heartbreaking to occupy the same territory in the book because I think they very often occupy the same territory in life, much as we try to separate them. Richard Russo