Quotes about book
book squares looks
But every page having an ample marge, And every marge enclosing in the midst A square of text that looks a little blot. Alfred Lord Tennyson
book reality people
Also, most people read fiction as an escape - and I wonder whether my books aren't a bit too grounded in reality to reach the widest possible audience. Alex Berenson
book taken writing
Each of my books took roughly one and a half years to write. Some may have taken a shorter time to write the draft and a longer time to revise, while others were the opposite. Alex Flinn
book age would-be
It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.
book thinking able
Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent.
book divorce past
The success that comes from my books is not something I feel very comfortable with. Past a certain point you have to accept the idea that the success is a lot to do with the timing and luck and that divorces you from it massively. There are aspects of it that I haven't got used to at all. But I've enjoyed some parts of it massively. It relates to the same reason I did a lot of backpacking — partly for the experience — it's something to tell my grandkids. It's a weird chain of events to have in your life. Alex Garland
book done way
If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do them. Don't talk about going to Borneo. Book a ticket, get a visa, pack a bag, and it just happens.
book plugs great-gifts
Books make great gifts because you don't have to plug them in. Alec Baldwin
book men two
It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini. Aldous Huxley
book cooking special
All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook.
book writing reality
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.
book heart names
Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water.
book writing byron
Isn't it remarkable how everyone who knew [D.H.] Lawrence has felt compelled to write about him? Why, he's had more books written about him than any writer since Byron!
book artist people
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.
book fall reading
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.
book reading writing
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
book brave-new-world culture
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
book reading writing
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced.
book reading past
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
book teaching light
The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light. Albert Pike
book reading writing
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books and write. Albert Einstein
book errors nazi
[Asked about a book in which 100 Nazi professors charged him with scientific error.] Were I wrong, one professor would have been quite enough.
book effort letters
About Newton: Nature to him was an open book, whose letters he could read without effort.
book explanation blogs
Anyone can repeat a technical explanation they read in a text-book or blog post.
book reading doubt
My deep religiosity [...] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
books buy extended family food happy help money talk
We didn't have much money. My whole extended family used to help us, and buy us books and food. It was hard, and there were things I didn't want to talk about. But at the end I was a happy girl. Maria das Gracas Silva Foster
book computer discover engage fall games incredible love networks people readers social understand
We didn't have all the distractions that young people have today. We didn't have these incredible computer games and social networks to engage with. I understand that. But once young readers do discover reading, when they discover a book which they fall in love with, it really unleashes something new in their imagination. Mark Billingham
book chocolate cooked dinner eating family fun incredibly laid novels
Writing this book was incredibly fun because I soaked in the bathtub, laid around eating chocolate in bed, cooked dinner for my family and read novels the whole time. Jane Smiley
book hard printed published
Writing the book was the hard part. Getting it published and printed through Lulu was a breeze.
book chance happy helped
Writing the book helped exorcise all of that, ... Many years later, I'm happy that I didn't have that chance for a sniper kill. Anthony Swofford
book winter hands
In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love. Aberjhani
book clouds building
Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud. Aaron Levie
book utah should-have
I always thought the name of Utah’s major newspaper was some sort of weird misspelling of the word “desert.” But no, Deseret is the “land of the honeybee,” according to the Book of Mormon. I guess I should have figured they would have caught a typo in the masthead after 154 years. A. J. Jacobs