Quotes about book
book endless products
I am a product [...of] endless books. C. S. Lewis
book reading sea-breeze
The only palliative is to keep the clean sea breeze of the centuries blowing through our minds, and this can be done only by reading old books.
book reading men
I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once.
book sleep writing
For me, writing something down was the only road out...I hated childhood, and spent it sitting behind a book waiting for adulthood to arrive. When I ran out of books I made up my own. At night, when I couldn't sleep, I made up stories in the dark. Anne Tyler
book kids costumes
My book is very wild. But you know during the period of BATMAN, that there were thousands of Batman and Robin costumes sold and these weren't just for kids. Burt Ward
book play arrows
I confess I didn't read the 'Green Arrow' comics before coming to play Shado. The comic books are not as easily accessible in Hong Kong as they are in the States. I do enjoy superhero fiction, though. Celina Jade
book school two
There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action. Cesar Millan
book writing way
I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.
book people goes-on
I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.
book giving demand
Books don't prattle. Books don't make demands. Yet they give you everything they possess. It's a very satisfying partnership. Carol Berg
book writing fairy-tale
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales Carol Ann Duffy
book writing way
I have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.
book wish more-time
I wish I had more time to read. I do love books. Carnie Wilson
book thinking long
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge. Alan Lightman
book years important
You say, "Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse." And that's enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
book writing golf
When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water...You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
book inspiration writing
I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It's a vision of the whole thing.
book character thinking
The Diagnosis had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes. I would do something and let it sit for three months... just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn't quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
book insecure thinking
The Diagnosis is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it... there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years. Just didn't know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out...
book tragedy diagnosis
I wouldn't overall say that The Diagnosis it's a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.
book writing ideas
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing. To the point that I have to be careful that they don't take over.
book grateful thinking
I'm humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me. I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society - which is true in all his books.
book creative different
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
book important looks
Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I've mentioned, of course, are original, but it's important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world. And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can't really depend upon what you've done with previous books.
book years two
A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
book reading should-have
I should have written books instead of reading them.
book character able
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
book way different
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
book writing bird
One day I'm going to write a book about osprey . It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.
book years four
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four. Alan Davies
book reality want
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books. Alan Furst
book writing get-better
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
book thinking past
I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.