Quotes about book
book writing long
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness. Charles Darwin
book men two
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper. From quotations which I had seen, I had a high notion of Aristotle's merits, but I had not the most remote notion what a wonderful man he was. Linnaeus and Cuvier have been my two gods, though in very different ways, but they were mere schoolboys to old Aristotle.
book tyrants rainbow
I had gradually come, by this time [1839-01], to see that the Old Testament from its manifestly false history of the world, with the Tower of Babel, the rainbow as a sign, etc., etc. and from its attributing to God the feelings of a revengeful tyrant, was no more to be trusted than the sacred books of the Hindoos, or the beliefs of any barbarian.
book writing addiction
If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book. Charles Adams
book character compromise
When you adapt a book to a film, you take all the best parts and put them into an hour and 15 minutes and have to compromise on the characters. Channing Tatum
book ideas able
I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that Brad Thor
book reality thinking
Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.
book
I don't want to sound like a self-help book, but it really has been transformative for me to take a look at my relationships in a new way and see my part in them. Everybody's going through that. Bonnie Raitt
book giving persons
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. Bono
book writing self
Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them. Barry Eisler
book suffering transition
I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isnt something I welcome wholeheartedly.
book writing intelligent
I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book. Barry Hannah
book humanity actors
The thing about the books is that they really talked a lot about what was going on inside of Bond and the inner dialogue. It's very hard to project that onto a screen because Bond doesn't talk a lot about how he feels. But, when you have an actor like Daniel Craig, he's able to convey the inner turmoil and the conflicts. He's given Bond his humanity. Barbara Broccoli
book romance historical
A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts. Barbara Cartland
book moon people
People don't roll around naked in my books. I do allow them to go to bed if they're married, but it's all very wonderful and the moon beams.
book white house
Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to publish your book.' I said, 'Well, I don't have a book,' and they said well it's a well known fact that you have kept diaries. Barbara Bush
book tuscany excellent
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' Arthur Smith
book world vedas
Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world. Arthur Schopenhauer
book men race
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.
book important should
Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately
book thinking buying
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
book reading mean
Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.
book men race
Scholars are those who have read in books, but thinkers, men of genius, world-enlighteners, and reformers of the human race are those who have read directly in the book of the world.
book mean age
Students and scholars of all kinds and of every age aim, as a rule, only at information, not insight. They make it a point of honour to have information about everything, every stone, plant, battle, or experiment and about all books, collectively and individually. It never occurs to them that information is merely a means to insight, but in itself is of little or no value.
book life-is-short order
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the mind. In order to read what is good one must make it a condition never to read what is bad; for life is short, and both time and strength limited.
book unique hands
To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world
book life-is-short men
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
book men thinking
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.
book dry-up way
Many books serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up...
book communication beer
High thoughts must have high language. Aristophanes
book jealous thinking
It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books. Antonio Lobo Antunes
book reading writing
Whenever anyone declares having read a book of mine I am disappointed by the error. That’s because my books are not to be read in the sense usually called reading: the only way it seems to me to approach the novels that I write is to catch them in the same manner that one catches an illness.
book long homeland
A long time ago, I read in a book that a woman's homeland is wherever she fell in love.