Quotes about book
book reading soul
The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replies. Andre Maurois
book reading writing
Writing is a difficult trade which must be learned slowly by reading great authors; by trying at the outset to imitate them; by daring then to be original; by destroying one's first productions.
book writing thinking
Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that. Amelie Nothomb
book thinking years
I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or European writers, I realised that there was an articulate way or a language to express all these feelings that I had had for years and years and so I became a raging feminist as a young woman. Andrew Denton
book forever atheism
Damning, with bell, book and candle / Some sinner whose opinions are a scandal. / A rite permitting Satan to enslave him / Forever, and forbidding Christ to save him. Ambrose Bierce
book ignorance knowledge
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
book skulls dust
Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.
book fool distinction
SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.
book writing perfect
If you want to read a perfect book there is only one way: write it.
book writing religion
Scriptures - The sacred books of our holy religion, as distinguished from the false and profane writings on which all other faiths are based.
book sunday literature
While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer. Anthony Holden
book thinking literature
I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
book perfect reader
My perfect reader doesn't just read - he or she devours books. Anthony Horowitz
book writing horror-stories
…my life has been a remarkable one. Maybe one day someone will write a book about me . . .” "I’ve never much cared for horror stories.
book writing thinking
My favorite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
book greatest-fear disappointing
My greatest fear is disappointing the reader, so each book has to be better than the one before.
book phones expectations
I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything Anthony Hopkins
book makes-you-stronger
What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer. Anthony Kiedis
book reading people
People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it. Alicia Vikander
book littles rich
But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu. Alison Bechdel
book class firsts
At first I was glad for the help. My freshmen English class, "Mythology and Archetypal Experience," confounded me. I didn't understand why we couldn't just read books without forcing contorted interpretations on then
book reading thinking
People really want to think that these things really happened. I don't know why that is important, but I know that when I finish reading a novel or something, I want to know how much of that really happened to this author.
book thinking mad
Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them. Alice Thomas Ellis
book thinking trying
Books and novels in particular that grapple with quite a few things are difficult to explain, so I think that first line can come in a substitute for trying to form a longer sense of what the book is about. Alice Sebold
book done stuff
I don't do much public speaking. I did a lot of stuff for Bones, and then ended up having said yes to a lot of things that kept me on the road for a while for that, but then I pretty much stopped. I'm touring for this book, but when the tour is done, that'll be the end of it.
book important disrespectful
I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books]. Alice Walker
book reading world
Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.
book likes duty
Love likes to extend itself. If you receive it in a book - or however you get it - then your duty is to extend it beyond.
book humility writing
A book tour is, first and foremost, an exercise in humility. Alice McDermott
book shapes four
If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich... Alice James
book coffee hands
She sits in her usual ample armchair, with piles of books and unopened magazines around her. She sips cautiously from the mug of weak herb tea which is now her substitute for coffee. At one time she thought that she could not live without coffee, but it turned out that it is really the warm large mug she wants in her hands, that is the aid to thought or whatever it is she practices through the procession of hours, or of days. Alice Munro
book men boys
It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in books that I would find, for the next few years, my lovers. They were men, not boys. They were self-possessed and sardonic, with a ferocious streak in them, reserves of gloom.
book reading dust
It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or ornate, and what was inside them might as well have been dust.