Quotes about book
book adventure night
The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a wondrous, scintillating web of suspense, love, history, and magic that will keep you eagerly turning the pages late into the night. Even readers not normally drawn to the supernatural will be swept away by this book; it has everything a great adventure should have-and so much more. Anne Fortier
book reading passion
The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for so long by the rigidity of traditional scholarship, is as exciting and surprising as a bestselling murder mystery; I simply couldn't put it down. Through scholarly brilliance and passion, Adrienne Mayor has opened the door to a forgotten world of gender equality, and her book ought to be required reading in every college history course.
book writing goal
My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat thing about a goal like that is you can achieve it. Faith is constant; it's a relationship. Anne Graham Lotz
book nonprofits corporations
I felt that one of the things God impressed on me was that I needed to start a nonprofit corporation, so that any money that came my way, whether it was an honorarium, a book sale or a gift, would go into a nonprofit ministry.
book writing people
The only way to write a book, I’m fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That’s how you write a book. Anne Enright
book kids years
For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time.
book who-i-am two
I'm really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don't confuse the issues, really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
book fall writing
If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
book winning people
I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
book writing pages
The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
book self dying
Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
book adventure confusing
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure. Anne Carson
book opinion great-book
In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific. Anne Hathaway
book thinking hands
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. Anne Frank
book reading mean
Ordinary people simply don't know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.
book thinking people
If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.
book kids pirate
I came back to this idea of telling the stories of women who aren't in all of the history books. Their names are not up there next to male names that we've know since we were little kids. Ching Shih, for example, was a pirate commander from the late 1800s to the early 1900s. She was one of the most fearsome pirates, why is her name not included when we list the names of great pirates like Blackbeard? Anita Sarkeesian
book thinking six
If you could have a book called My Favorite Six Stories, I don't think I'd have trouble doing that. Ann Beattie
book tone chance
I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything....
book littles television
I have my television, my books and that becomes my little world. Anjelica Huston
book too-much watches
I read much more that I do anything else. I don't watch too much television, because I like books.
book half hours
I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet. Andrew Wylie
book
I don't take advances for my books. Andrew Vachss
book contracts
I don't sign contracts for my books.
book people different
A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books. Andrei Tarkovsky
book orchids evil
There have been 50 or 60 books written about Empress Orchid, but none of them bothered to really examine the period in China when she lived. I was taught that she was evil; it's in all the textbooks. Anchee Min
book sick joy
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. Chuck Palahniuk
book people
There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.
book writing competition
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.
book long literature
I don't care what they do with my book so long as the flippin check clears.
book mean writing
To see how boring you really are, write a book about soap and cults, and the profits you make will be your only means of subsistence.
book believe play
As a culture, we believe that if we kill something, we've killed the issue. That's why so many books end with death, why so many plays end with death, because it's full resolution. I'm always curious to know what happens after Romeo and Juliet die. In a way, that's the beginning of the story. Maybe beyond the story is even better.
book years skins
It is a hundred-year-old witch book, bound in human skin and probably written in ancient cum...YOU lick it!