Quotes about book
book europe people
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience. Alan Furst
book writing two
It takes me three months of research and nine months of work to produce a book. When I start writing, I do two pages a day; if I'm gonna do 320, that's 160 days.
book
I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do. Alan Garner
book character amusement
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known. Alan Dean Foster
book reading mean
I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
book way oneself
The only possible way to begin a book is to tell oneself that its eventual failure is guaranteed — but survivable. Alain de Botton
book best-effort taste
Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent & unbudgeable as those in food.
book writing years
Writing a book has about it some of the anxiety of telling a joke and having to wait several years to know whether or not it was funny.
book giving feelings
It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
book sadness console
It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...
book secret maps
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
book writing sick
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.
book done remains
Only by declaring a book completely finished can one start to see how much remains to be done on it.
book glasses lessons
We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.
book emotion good-book
Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own.
book asking kind
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
book order people
We should read other people's books in order to learn what we feel; it is our own thoughts we should be developing, even if it is another writer's thought that help us to do so.
book world reason
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital. Al Capp
book responsibility writing
I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book. Al Franken
book political important
The reason I wrote political satire was because I thought it - politics - was important... that public policy was important. Then I transitioned into books, then into radio.
book stuff three
If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word. Charles R. Swindoll
book reality wells
Engaging and well paced, the book fills in the reality behind Vonnegut's work Charles J. Shields
book believe vanity
Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press.
book autumn bridges
All who have travelled through the delicious scenery of North Devon must needs know the little white town of Bideford, which slopes upwards from its broad tide-river paved with yellow sands, and many-arched old bridge, where salmon wait for Autumn floods, toward the pleasant upland on the west. Charles Kingsley
book reading men
Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
book school enjoy
But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do. Charles Clarke
book games people
There is a huge fan base, they're very knowledgeable and very loyal. I was astonished - before I started working on the series I didn't know anything about Game of Thrones. I hadn't heard of the books. When it started going out, people were coming up to me in the street saying 'oh, Game of Thrones, wonderful'. Charles Dance
book games size
I have to admit that I haven't read any of the books [of George Martin's "Game of Thrones"] and I don't refer to them. Apart from anything else they're very thick [in size] and they frighten me. A terrifying prospect.
book beloved burned
The Bible-banned, burned, beloved-is more widely read and more frequently attacked than any other book in history. Charles Colson
book humble science
[Herschel and Humboldt] stirred up in me a burning zeal to add even the most humble contribution to the noble structure of Natural Science. No one or a dozen other books influenced me nearly so much as these two. I copied out from Humboldt long passages about Teneriffe and read them aloud on one of [my walking excursions]. Charles Darwin
book eye science
I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.
book science law
Nothing before had ever made me thoroughly realise, though I had read various scientific books, that science consists in grouping facts so that general laws or conclusions may be drawn from them.
book writing ideas
I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea of the trouble which trying to write common English could cost one—And alas there yet remains the worst part of all correcting the press.