Quotes about book
book dark would-be
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power. Chuck Palahniuk
book grandmother comfort
I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.
book reading writing
The strength of film is its accessibility and immediacy. But the strength of books is that freedom to really depict anything you want because people are going to be reading it in private. So, I'm always trying to write with the immediacy and the constant motion of film but I'm also trying to write with the complete freedom of subject matter that books have.
book doe movement
Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.
book surprise moments
There's a moment in every book when the book turns and it surprises me.
book sleep people
The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.
book writing fighting
It's interesting because when David Fincher was making "Fight Club," he said, "It's a romance." And it really is. Almost everything I ever write is just a romance. And that needed to be sort of pointed up at the end of "Fight Club." The film has a very different ending than the book does.
book people community
My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.
book obtaining
My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.
book writing dark
I thought why not write a kind of mystery, murder, thriller book, but use romance language where the language plays completely against the very dark subject matter, that very strange murderous plot, but use that Harlequin Romance language.
book ideas issues
Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.
book break-through people
My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.
book people age
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age. Chuck Jones
book writing thinking
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?" Chuck Klosterman
book writing thinking
And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so much. I think people feel very comfortable reviewing the idea of me, as opposed to what I've actually written. I find that most of the time, when people write about one of my books, they're really just writing about what they think I may or may not represent, as sort of this abstract entity. Is that unfair? Not really. If I put myself in this position where I'm going to kind of weave elements of memoir into almost everything, well, I suppose that's going to happen.
book writing thinking
The amount of response I get, in both a negative and a positive context, is completely related to the amount of books I sell, I think. It seems to have nothing to do with what I'm writing, but what degree of success I'm perceived to have. It's really weird, especially since I spent so much of my life covering people who are famous. It's interesting to actually have it happen to me on some level.
book writing years
Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me.
book companion my-friends
These books are my friends, my companions. Christopher Paolini
book eragon bibliophiles
Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.
book names romance
I have 20 or 30 books completely plotted out in my mind - mysteries, thrillers, horror, romance, science fiction. You name it.
book choices humanity
Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity.
book delighted
I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291).
book men ideas
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live.
book dust gathering
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
book laughing cry
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
book oysters envy
I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance! Christopher Marlowe
book envy wish
I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.
book winning years
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is the greater explosive: it will win. Christopher Morley
book errors hunger
Between ourselves, there is no such thing, abstractly, as a 'good' book. A book is 'good' only when it meets some human hunger or refutes some human error.
book library may
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
book helping virtue
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily.
book doctors people
A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that your mind is ill for lack of books but you are blissfully unaware of it!
book soul special
We visit bookshops not so often to buy any one special book, but rather to rediscover, in the happier and more expressive words of others, our own encumbered soul.