Quotes about book
book mean thinking
Good books leave an impression. Great books forever alter the way you think about what it means to be alive. You Disappear is not just a well-told story, but a dramatic recalibrating of what it means to have a mind-and a soul. Dara Horn
book action internet
We all have so much access to the information on the Internet and in books, but we don't necessarily get that information in a usable way so that we can turn information into action. Daphne Oz
book character care
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply. Danielle Steel
book writing thinking
Sometimes I look back and think, "How did I write that? The book is smarter than I am!" I have never written strategically, but rather, followed the dictates of my muse. Dan Millman
book warrior offering
My parents were only one part of my lineage. I also met a number of mentors, one of whom I nicknamed "Socrates" after the ancient Greek, and wrote about in my first book, Way of the Peaceful Warrior. That book emerged in 1980, as a result of travels around the world and decades of preparation, eventually leading to 15 other books written over the years, culminating in my newest offering, The Four Purposes of Life.
book strenght brain
God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us. Corrie Ten Boom
book doe stories
Perhaps there's another, much larger story behind the printed one, a story that changes just as our own world does. And the letters on the page tell us only as much as we'd see peering through a keyhole. Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world. Cornelia Funke
book pages owners
a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.
book order letters
Weren’t all books ultimately related? After all, the same letters filled them, just arranged in a different order. Which meant that, in a certain way, every book was contained in every other!
book kissing laughing
Because by now Elinor had understood this, too: A longing for books was nothing compared with what you could feel for human beings. The books told you about that feeling. The books spoke of love, and it was wonderful to listen to them, but they were no substitute for love itself. They couldn't kiss her like Meggie, they couldn't hug her like Resa, they couldn't laugh like Mortimer. Poor books, poor Elinor.
book half remember
Sometimes it's a good thing we don't remember things half as well as books do.
book pay inkdeath
Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
book wonderful-friends world
This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.
book doors curiosity
Her curiosity was too much for her. She felt almost as if she could hear the books whispering on the other side of the half-open door. They were promising her a thousand unknown stories, a thousand doors into worlds she had never seen before.
book people solitude
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen
book house world
What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them," said Meggie.
book fall weather
The books in Mo and Meggie's house were stacked under tables, on chairs, in the corners of the rooms. There where books in the kitchen and books in the lavatory. Books on the TV set and in the closet, small piles of books, tall piles of books, books thick and thin, books old and new. They welcomed Meggie down to breakfast with invitingly opened pages; they kept boredom at bay when the weather was bad. And sometimes you fall over them.
book writing trying
I will try to write books until I drop dead.
book odd inkdeath
Isn't it odd how much fatter a book gets when you've read it several times?
book people fairytale
I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
book dark blue
Every book should begin with attractive endpapers. Preferably in a dark colour: dark red or dark blue, depending on the binding. When you open the book it's like going to the theatre. First you see the curtain. Then it's pulled aside and the show begins.
book heartless promise
Accursed, blasted, heartless things [books]! Full of empty promises, full of false lures, always making you hungry, never satisfying you, never!
book goes-on world
Perhaps the story in the book is just the lid on a pan: It always stays the same, but underneath there's a whole world that goes on - developing and changing like our own world.
book looks way
Many [book] even lay flat in the floor open. Their spines upward. Elinor couldn't bear to look! Didn't the monster know that was the way to break a book's neck?
book happiness-and-love comfort
Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness and love.
book strange-places ideas
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
book taken kids
If I was a book, I would like to be a library book, so I would be taken home by all different sorts of kids.
book world heavy
Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.
book firsts curtains
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
book far-away hours
Please," she whispered as she opened the book, "please get me out of here just for an hour or so, please take me far, far away
book thinking long-ago
You know, it's a funny thing about writers. Most people don't stop to think of books being written by people much like themselves. They think that writers are all dead long ago--they don't expect to meet them in the street or out shopping. They know their stories but not their names, and certainly not their faces. And most writers like it that way.
book want pretending
If you keep pretending you're in that book, it will make you not want to live in the life you're in.
book reading ears
The book she had been reading was under her pillow, pressing its cover against her ear as if to lure her back into its printed pages.