Quotes about book
book sometimes conversation
Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not. China Mieville
book thinking important
But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books, they can often learn about their own books.
book writing voice
Every book I write, the first thing I have to do is get into the voice, and the voice varies from book to book - that's part of what's interesting to me.
book people way
Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books.
book writing ideas
I like the idea of trying to write a book in every genre.
book people want
I love it when people want to interpret my books.
book years passionate
I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.
book writing names
In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
book trying pages
What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.
book writing thinking
Americans think African writers will write about the exotic, about wildlife, poverty, maybe AIDS. They come to Africa and African books with certain expectations. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
book writing people
I had people read it early on and, you know, well-meaning people said to me, you should take out the blogs. I didn't get much positive feedback. Only because most of these people were protective of me - it was sort of like a "tone it down, make it easier to swallow" kind of thing. And I just thought if I do that then it's not the book I want to write.
book men order
All over the world, there are so many magazine articles and books telling women what to do, how to be and not to be, in order to attract or please men. There are far fewer guides for men about pleasing women.
book school american-history
When I was in school, all our history books were American, so we learned American history, not Canadian history. Dave Foley
book thinking italian
I came to think that nobody from England could draw American comic books, because they were clearly all done by this sort of Mafia, all these guys with Italian and Irish names who had the whole thing sewn up. It was actually seeing a comic book drawn by Barry Smith, who was about my age, and English. Dave Gibbons
book thinking illustration
People unacquainted with graphic novels, including journalists, tend to think of Watchmen as a book by Alan Moore that happens to have some illustrations. And that does a disservice to the entire form.
book numbers people
I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers. David Shapiro
book should endure
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it. David Shields
book reading order
If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress.
book audio lovers
Lovers of audio books learn to live with compromise. David Sedaris
book mean writing
When I taught, a lot of my students weren't big readers, so they would write something and I realized that they thought it belonged in a book. Like, they didn't know what the inside of a book looked like, you know what I mean?
book iron listening
I like listening to books as well, as that way you can iron at the same time.
book school adventure
If I'm riding my bike I just replay the same scenarios over and over in my head, like I haven't had a new mental adventure since high school. So that's what I like about books on tape, so my mind can't wander anywhere.
book tape
I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.
book people sitting
I meet people at book signings. My record now, for signing, is ten and a half hours in one sitting.
book thinking library
When someone tell me they illegally downloaded one of my audiobooks I think, Thanks a lot, Pal. When someone tells me they checked my book out of the library, I'm delighted. I've always been a big library user, and feel a kinship with others who do the same thing.
book listening would-be
I guess my guilty pleasure would be listening to the British audio versions of the 'Harry Potter' books.
book people fiction-and-nonfiction
I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives.
book ipads sometimes
I sometimes read books on my iPad.
book people infidelity
In books and movies infidelity always looks so compelling, so right. Here are people who defy petty convention and are rewarded with only the tastiest bits of human experience.
book writing firsts
I started writing when I was twenty. My first book came out when I was thirty-five. But I never expected that it would happen quickly.
book reading thinking
I would still be reading out loud. I think that if you are any kind of an artist, then validation is just sort of... it can be a result, but you're going to do the work anyway. Because you're just wired that way. It's so engrained, it's such a part of your personality that you don't just stop doing it. Eventually I'll retire on some level, eventually no one will want to buy my books or a ticket to see me read, it's inevitable that's going to happe
book writing years
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
book years needs
Before I start a project, I always ask myself the following question. Why is this book worth a year of my life? There needs to be something about the theme, the technique, or the research that makes the time spent on it worthwhile. David Morrell