Quotes about book
book learn meeting teach worth
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn ourselves, from a book Cyril Connolly
book cases deals forty last problems serious shape thirty
I think we have some serious problems now, but, if you look back over the last thirty or forty years that my book deals with, I think we are in better shape now than we would have been if all of those cases had not come down. Floyd Abrams
books born brought date due finals hospital last semester supposed until
My son was born during my last semester in college. His due date was Thanksgiving, but he didn't show up until finals week. I brought my books to the hospital and didn't think anything of it. That is what a father is supposed to do. LZ Granderson
book hillary stand word
I haven't said this yet, and I think I will say it. I stand by every word in the Hillary book to this day. Edward Klein
books grew loved
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still do. Emily Watson
books caution great saw throw
I think that, for me, the great books like that, autobiographies, are great when the artists who write them throw caution to the wind and really put it out there as they saw it. Eddie Trunk
book exciting faith favorite love spent statement year
My favorite book is 'Redeeming Love.' It was my first as a born-again Christian, my statement of faith, and the most exciting year I've spent writing anything. Francine Rivers
book writing students
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist. Anne Lamott
book mean night
No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional , flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into ...
book mean community
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.
book jealous kissing
I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers with their cameras Snap to look and in my fantasy I sail beneath your skirt Andy Partridge
book impossible brilliant
As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the options are obvious. Alastair Campbell
book i-can
I can't not put humor in a book. Albert Brooks
book reality cities
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself. Albert Camus
book people
History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy.
book want
I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book. Amanda Hocking
book writing long
I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot.
book fall reading
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
book people needs
For me to be a billion-dollar author, I need to have people buying my books at Wal-Mart.
book writing long
It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn. Annie Dillard
book fool ifs
If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.
book people lazy
People who read are not too lazy to turn on the television; they prefer books.
book light way
Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them.
book imagination people
What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.
book imagination world
Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.
book writing house
Let the grass die. I let almost all of my indoor plants die from neglect while I was writing the book. There are all kinds of ways to live. You can take your choice. You can keep a tidy house, and when St. Peter asks you what you did with your life, you can say, I kept a tidy house, I made my own cheese balls.
book blow land
When you open a book,” the sentimental library posters said, “anything can happen.” This was so. A book of fiction was a bomb. It was a land mine you wanted to go off. You wanted it to blow your whole day. Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands of books were duds. They had been rusting out of everyone’s way for so long that they no longer worked. There was no way to distinguish the duds from the live mines except to throw yourself at them headlong, one by one.
book firsts excitement
Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.
book writing spinning
The sensation of writing a book is the sensation of spinning, blinded by love and daring.
book mind passionate
Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.
book extravagant pure
All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.
book written
Johnston's books are beautifully written and among the funniest I have ever read.
book writing ears
The reader's ear must adjust down from loud life to the subtle, imaginary sounds of the written word. An ordinary reader picking up a book can't yet hear a thing; it will take half an hour to pick up the writing's modulations, its ups and downs and louds and softs.