Quotes about book
book books-and-reading remembered
I didn't want to make the book as it was, I wanted to make the book as I remembered it. Andrew Adamson
books cut happen instead three whether year
I'd like to cut it down to three books in two years instead of two a year - but whether that'll happen I don't know. Bernard Cornwell
bookstore everybody found psychiatry survivors
I do a lot of research. For 'I Am Legend', I did a lot of research about survivors. If everybody is dead around you, how you can keep surviving. I went to the bookstore and found psychiatry books about survivors from the Holocaust. Alice Braga
books content death forces hear inside love meet shaped speak stories time together
I'd love to meet Flannery O'Connor. I think I'd be content to hear her speak on any subject. What forces shaped her. What nebula of books and stories were whirling together inside her at the time of her death. Karen Russell
book
I'd like you always to have a book at your desk.
books discovered imagination looked number single somewhere wrote
I discovered writing children's books was a way to keep living in my imagination like a child. So I wrote a number of books before I started 'Magic Tree House.' Then, once I got that, I never looked back because I could be somewhere different in every single book. Mary Pope Osborne
booked flight situation yesterday
I don't know what the situation is (with Camara). He was booked on a flight yesterday (Friday). I don't want to say too much at the moment. Paul Jewell
book gave gets hooked penalty rule says shot
I don't know why (the referee) gave him a penalty shot. It says in the rule book that if he gets a shot off, even if he's hooked or whatever, it should be just 2 minutes. Peter Budaj
books child computers facility library maybe people public pull reads six using
I don't know why people aren't using the library frequently. Maybe it's the pull of the new bookstores, maybe it's something else. I'm not sure, but I do know we have computers here -- six for public use in this facility and 14 system-wide -- and our books are free. If you or your child reads a lot, the library is the place to visit.
book changed dearly hearts love men minds political women
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women. Jim Crace
books boost congress delighted funding interested kids libraries library local program provided provides quality renew school shelves
I am delighted that I can do my part to put quality books to the shelves of our local school libraries, ... Often times, school libraries are not provided with enough funding to renew book selections, so the Library of Congress program provides a real boost for these libraries, and helpes keep kids interested in reading.
book might flair
And if, by the end [of this book], you reckon you might still disagree with me, then I offer you this: you'll still be wrong, but you'll be wrong with a lot more panache and flair than you could possibly manage right now. Ben Goldacre
book writing years
I thought when I started writing that I'd have a book out in four or five years, and as it became apparent that that wasn't going to happen, I became increasingly frustrated and unsure of myself. Ben Fountain
book writing years
I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train.
book writing people
If you tell certain people that you like Kerouac, they assume that's all you read, like you don't know anything else about literature. I recognize all the things that people dislike about the way he writes - his tone and the sentimentality of it all. But those books were there for me at a very important point in my life. Ben Gibbard
book keys afar
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it. Ben Elton
book men genius
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. Carl Sandburg
book thinking sitting
My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
book thinking titles
We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
book literature coming-out
I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.
book writing people
I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
book years light
The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.
book writing trying
All my life I have been trying to learn to read, to see and hear, and to write.
book judging judging-a-book-by-its-cover
You can't judge a book by its cover, can you? Cao Cao
book novel
Wherever I am, I take books, not novels. Caprice Bourret
book reading kingdoms
Nothing is as dangerous for the state as those who would govern kingdoms with maxims found in books. Cardinal Richelieu
book character views
It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go where the script for my character was very sparse, and I enjoyed it. With Never Let Me Go, I had a whole book written from my character's point of view, so I always knew where I was. But, with Ryan [Gosling], it was just easy. He's such a brilliant actor and he is so prepared. He doesn't have to warm himself up to be in a scene. He's just in it. It draws you in, in a way. Carey Mulligan
book reading age
No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond. C. S. Lewis
book reading should
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
book wish ordinary
Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old.
book wind long
I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books.
book play skills
Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves.
book years good-book
Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years.