Quotes about book
book perfect perspective
Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective. Sarah Dessen
book thinking scripts
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
book writing thinking
Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.
book cereal inspire
I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.
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My books are so tame!
book want needs
My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.
book writing tired
I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."
book editors eight
I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.
book character thinking
I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or piece of dialog might be too much like something I've already done. So it's a challenge to keep it fresh.
book thinking reader
I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.
book writing tired
Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself. But then another idea starts percolating. It usually begins with the narrator's name, then some idea that intrigues me about her life or situation. I try to ignore it as long as I can, because I know when I start writing, I'll be right back into it, every single day. But eventually, I just have to. It's a compulsion!
book challenges way
Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
book school people
I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.
book thinking benefits
I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
book character ideas
For each book, there's a back story of where the idea came from. Sometimes it's derived from a current event or topic of discussion. Often it begins with a character. And often, I have NO idea what sparked the idea. It's just there. Sandra Brown
book careers people
Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do. Sandra Lee
book language
My book would come out in one language, then it would come out in another language, then it would come out in One City, One Read, and I was always being called away from my desk. Sandra Cisneros
book thinking poor
I think that you need to have books that talk about the lives of the poor, and they need to be involved - involved in acquisitions.
book communication buddhism
A second person that's come to my life very recently, and I'm thankful for it, is Marshall Rosenberg, the founder of the Nonviolent Communication Organization. He has all these books about how we can use our language nonviolently to help create peace. He's using a lot of Buddhism too, but he's helping me to think about language.
book errors able
Most of the books call Her a He, but I am able to ascertain what is meant, despite that semantic error.. Roseanne Barr
book two piercings
I pierced one nipple. Not both. Just one. She has it in the books and I wanted to get as many of the piercings as I could, and I spent so much time on this film naked, and I just had to be really comfortable with that right away . . . I'm gonna keep it for now. I don't want to have to repierce that should we do the other two films. Rooney Mara
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…the book creates meaning, the meaning creates life. Roland Barthes
book cost birth
The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.
book men magic
There is a magic in some books That sucks a man into connections With the spirits hard to touch That join him to his kind. Roger Waters
book romance advice
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature. Roger Ebert
book long firsts
A lot of first novels are written long before they're actually put down on paper.
book keys pieces
Jane Austen wrote six of the most beloved novels in the English language, we are informed at the end of Becoming Jane, and so she did. The key word is beloved. Her admirers do not analyze her books so much as they just plain love them to pieces.
book heart romance
' The Lucky One' is at its heart a romance novel, elevated however by Nicholas Sparks' persuasive storytelling. Readers don't read his books because they're true, but because they ought to be true.
book character superhero
One of the weapons Marvel used in its climb to comic-book dominance was a willingness to invent new characters at a dizzying speed. There are so many Marvel universes, indeed, that some superheroes do not even exist in one another's worlds, preventing gridlock.
book editors rumor
A reckoning is coming on the state of the internet journalism, because right now, the way it's set up, there is so much room for libel to squeak through that you're going to see...they're going to rewrite the rule book on journalism very soon. They have to, because the bloggers are getting away with so much rumor-mongering about public officials and even private figures because they don't have editors and they don't have fact checkers and they don't have lawyers. There is going to be a price to pay somewhere down the line. Rod Lurie
book open-book has-beens
My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me. Rod Stewart
book self tears
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical paeans to lesbianism than with See Him Tear and Kill Her or similar Mickey-Spillanesque titles. Robin Morgan
book reading needs
It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story "The Book-Bag. Robin McKinley