Quotes about book
book order sanctuary
If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order to survive, to protect some aspect of myself that was now in constant retreat. Azar Nafisi
book buy compared decide decided held largest meeting number staggering
We held a very long meeting to decide how many of the paperbacks we would buy. And the number we decided on was staggering compared to other books. It's the largest buy I've made for one book in 20 years.
books easily money replace sent shipping spend
We didn't want to spend money shipping furniture, or things we could replace here. So we sent just the minimum, only things like books that couldn't easily be replaced.
book writing men
Christmas poem to a man in jail hello Bill Abbott: I appreciate your passing around my books in jail there, my poems and stories. if I can lighten the load for some of those guys with my books, fine. but literature, you know, is difficult for the average man to assimilate (and for the unaverage man too); I don't like most poetry, for example, so I write mine the way I like to read it. Charles Bukowski
book luck impossible
a good book can make an almost impossible existence, liveable ( from 'the luck of the word' )
book mean self
It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.
book great-book interest
I could read the great books but the great books don't interest me.
book people waiting
That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.
book needs great-book
great books are the ones we need
book soul desire
If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.
book drop fact half horrendous matter national though
The fact of the matter is this is the 52nd National Book Awards, and when something has been going on for half a century, you have to think about the fact that you're responsible for that and you just can't let it drop even though these are horrendous circumstances,
books closing fact habit kids realize schools
The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun. James Patterson
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The problem with making movies is that you have to devote so much of your life to fawning and flattering the men in suits, whereas that doesn't happen in books. You just go and write, and then the book comes out. Richard Flanagan
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The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries. Rene Descartes
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There is case after case on the books that have upheld the validity of flood exclusion language, exactly the language Mr. Scruggs is contesting.
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When I find myself frozen - whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book - it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place. Jeffery Deaver
books playing reading
When I'm not playing football, I'm usually studying. I want to go to college, so I got to keep reading books and doing my homework. Joe King
book calls countless finally looking phone realized received three
When it was finally over - all of the traveling, the 350 interviews, countless phone calls - and I received the book in the mail, I realized I had never done anything like it. I look at this book and I looking at three years of my life.
book ideas smell
Music endures and ages far better than books. Books, made of words, are unavoidably attached to ideas, events, conflict, and history, but music has the power to transcend time. At least for a time. Palestrina sounds as fresh today as he did in 1555, but Dante, only three centuries older, already smells of the archaic, the medieval, the catacombs. Edward Abbey
book hero brave
What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
book sacrifice squares
I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.
book reviews written
I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
book enemy lasts
There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
book writing years
How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.
book facts written
My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
book reviews reviewers
It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
book utah arizona
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
book writing shoes
When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
book silence clubs
A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
book cadavers bed
Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.
book oblivion new-books
Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
book two democracy
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.
book eggs
Books are like eggs -- best when fresh.