Quotes about book
book writing impossible
The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely one can only write the book that is there to be written. Dorothy L. Sayers
book thinking yesterday
I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found a story that happened around here yesterday or the day before that's just as shocking as anything in my book. Donald Ray Pollock
book character cartoon
The way I saw the characters these things just happened naturally. At the same time - and I know it's probably not apparent when you read the book - but I really tried to hold back because I didn't want it to become a cartoon.
book writing would-be
Id always been a big reader, and I loved books, and I always thought writing would be a great way to get by in the world.
book giving people
I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it. Donald Miller
book writing people
When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.
book pieces prose
All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.
book people letters
There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.
book grateful writing
I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the books, so they have a working knowledge of how I write, and they know what they like and what they don't like. I'm really grateful for their feedback.
book cutting two
I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.
book trying half
Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.
book writing stories
Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help
book walking-away hands
*I want to keep walking away from the person I was a moment ago... *So soon you will be in that part of the book where you are holding the bulk of the pages in your left hand, and only a thin wisp of the story in your right. *We get one story, you and I, and one story alone....It might be time for you to go. It might be time to change, to shine out.
book years pages
Every day you live is a page. Every year, a chapter. Your life, a book. What is it about?
book thinking too-much
When we think too much about the opinions of others, we are letting them edit a book God has written.
book thinking space
Of his new book, Don says: “It might be the greatest book ever written. I don’t think anybody is going to read a book again after they read my new one. I think God is proud of me. I am going to make a killing off this thing and I’m going to use the money to go to space.
book writing quitting
I love writing books - I really do. If I could just quit everything and work on a book every day, I would love that most.
book mean people
I fell in love with books. Some people find beauty in music, some in painting, some in landscape, but I find it in words. By beauty, I mean the feeling you have suddenly glimpsed another world, or looked into a portal that reveals a kind of magic or romance out of which the world has been constructed, a feeling there is something more than the mundane, and a reason for our plodding.
book imagination littles
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination. Don Novello
book kids writing
I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.
book aggravation lasts
My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books. Don Nickles
book people cooking
If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
book bucks bigs
Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my whole family. Colleen Hoover
book fall love-is
Cooking is great, love is grand, but souffles fall and lovers come and go. But you can always depend on a book! Claudia Christian
book ideas feelings
The idea that when one reacts, one is not reacting to any one of those moments. You're reacting to the accumulation of the moments. I wanted the book, as much as the book could do this, to communicate that feeling. The feeling of saturation. Of being full up. I wanted it to be simulacra. Claudia Rankine
book heart thinking
I was really interested in the fact that blacks have high blood pressure, heart disease, and diabetes at a higher percentage than the rest of the population. That didn't stay very aggressively in the book, but that's how it started. I began to document these moments as support for this other thing I was thinking about, and then the moments themselves began to take over.
book tears pages
I should rather like to tear these last pages out of the book. Shall I? No-a journal ought not to cheat. Dodie Smith
book reading writing
When I read a book, I put in all the imagination I can, so that it is almost like writing the book as well as reading it - or rather, it is like living it. It makes reading so much more exciting, but I don't suppose many people try to do it.
book unique may
Certain unique books seem to be without forerunners or successors as far as their authors are concerned. Even though they may profoundly influence the work of other writers, for their creator they're complete, not leading anywhere.
book kids information
I always loved books. I don't remember learning to read, it was just something I always did. I was hungry for knowledge, I guess, and information; I was a curious kid. I still am. Dolly Parton
book kids titles
Everywhere I go, the kids call me 'the book lady.' The older I get, the more appreciative I seem to be of the 'book lady' title. It makes me feel more like a legitimate person, not just a singer or an entertainer. But it makes me feel like I've done something good with my life and with my success.
book school self
If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.
book technology phones
I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.