Quotes about book
book people events
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times: more people, more events, and more books written about them. More evidence is preserved, often, one is tempted to say, too much. Decay and destruction have hardly begun their beneficent work. A. J. P. Taylor
book moving recipes
Giulia Melucci has written a wonderfully funny and moving book. It's like Eat, Pray, Love, with recipes. A. J. Jacobs
book reading lists
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read. It's like a particularly relentless series of pop-up ads.
book helping interest
I'm not saying all publishers have to be literary, but some interest in books would help. A. N. Wilson
book writing years
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
book writing
I don't write books inadvertently.
book trying open-book
I try to be an open book now as much as possible. A. J. McLean
book age firsts
I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked. A. Scott Berg
book school night
I developed a mania for Fitzgerald - by the time I'd graduated from high school I'd read everything he'd written. I started with 'The Great Gatsby' and moved on to 'Tender Is the Night,' which just swept me away. Then I read 'This Side of Paradise,' his novel about Princeton - I literally slept with that book under my pillow for two years.
book oxygen two
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books. A. Whitney Brown
book writing people
I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers. A. S. Byatt
book later-in-life giving
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
book glasses ideas
There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.
book people
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.
book character characters comic risk runs treats turning writer wrong
I feel when a writer treats a character as 'precious,' the writer runs the risk of turning them into a comic book character. There's nothing wrong with comic book characters in comic books, but I don't write comic books. Raymond E. Feist
books finding future heroes heroines love power surprise women
In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their power and their future through love. Sarah MacLean
books lifetime work
Who I am, what I am, is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, a lifetime of stories. And there are still so many more books to read. I'm a work in progress. Sarah Addison Allen
books insomnia looked middle night time window
While reading 'David Copperfield' in the middle of the night - probably because of the light, I had insomnia for the first time - I looked out of the window and thought, 'If this is what books can do, this is what I want to do.' Siri Hustvedt
book wrote
When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.
books fall guided high hugo last life lived love people smartest victor wrote
Books guided my life from high school, and the greatest, most interesting, most provocative, funniest, smartest people who ever lived in the last 200 or 300 years wrote those books. I would fall in love with Victor Hugo and read not just 'Les Miserables,' but 'Bug-Jargal' and 'The Toilers of the Sea' and so forth.
book cup depression great half horror last life middle moments sat spent sure whether
I'm not sure whether I've been happy. After my last book tour, I sat on my balcony with a cup of tea. I thought: 'You can't rewind the movie. I've spent more than half my life in the Middle East. There have been great moments of horror and depression and loneliness.' Robert Fisk
books-and-reading defensive letter phone size
The defensive playbook is the size of a phone book. We didn't even get through the first letter of the alphabet.
book reading details
I read everything I could find: books and online. Sometimes bigger revelations came to me through finer details or something that you wouldn't pick up just by surface reading. Abbie Cornish
book writing years
I never intended to write poems, nor to be a photographer, nor to be a film-maker. I just took many, many pictures and I would put them in an album, and then some years later I decided to show them and suddenly I was called a photographer. Same thing with my poetry. They're notes that I'd written in a book and it may be considered poetry. Abbas Kiarostami
book giving needs
A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation. A. C. Benson
book love-you hands
To her- Hand in hand we come Christopher Robin and I To lay this book in your lap. Say you're surprised? Say you like it? Say it's just what you wanted? Because it's yours- because we love you. A. A. Milne
book reading way
Do not ever read books about versification: no poet ever learnt it that way. If you are going to be a poet, it will come to you naturally and you will pick up all you need from reading poetry. A. E. Housman
book men interesting
Some men are more interesting than their books but my book is more interesting than its man.
book comfort bears
Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.
book decide elitist full guinness office people record scientific
The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of people who decide what is a record and what isn't. Jack White
book men justice
You'll see all other mortal sinners, the ones who flout the honor owed to gods or guests, or loving parents--you'll see them get the justice they deserve. For Hades holds men mightily to a strict accounting down below the earth; he sees all things, inscribes them within the book of his remembering. Aeschylus
book way exes
It had come about exactly in the way things happened in books. Agatha Christie
book people should
People should be interested in books, not their authors.