Quotes about book
book people information
People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does. David Baldacci
book writing years
Some people take 10 years to write a book and some can do one in under a year.
book kids rocks
Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.
book magazines world
I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world Delia Smith
book courses
Do I read her books? Of course. Debbie Reynolds
book mean perfect
I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That doesn't mean I create perfect stories and perfect people, however. What this means is that my stories are resolved in a manner that leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and happy expectation . . . and wanting to reach for another one of my books. Debbie Macomber
book adventure air
Adventure books are my personal favorites. 'The Endurance,' a story about Ernest Shackleton's legendary Antarctica expedition, or 'Into Thin Air,' Jon Krakauer's personal account of the 1996 disaster on Mt Everest, are two notables. Dean Karnazes
book fans bigs
I've always been a big fan of books. Amber Benson
book vegetarian fast-food-nation
Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian. Amber Tamblyn
book reading imagination
I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's never as good as the book'? It's often true because nothing competes with your own imagination. When you're reading a book and you imagine something in your head, nothing's going to compete with that. Amber Heard
book reading rooms
Books do furnish a room. Anthony Powell
book facts literature
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity. Books are unconvertible assets, to be passed on only to those who possess them already.
book literature
Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.
book feelings warm
I get a warm feeling among my books.
book good-movie notion
I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies. Anthony Minghella
book water-lily tree
The first place that I can well remember was a large pleasant meadow with a pond clear water in it. Some shady trees leaned over it, and rushes and water-lilies grew at the deep end. Anna Sewell
book people messages
I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them. Anna Paquin
book writing thinking
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of the book. Anna Quindlen
book past long
London has the trick of making its past, its long indelible past, always a part of its present. And for that reason it will always have meaning for the future, because of all it can teach about disaster, survival, and redemption. It is all there in the streets. It is all there in the books.
book writing opportunity
Writing for UrbanMoms has awarded me a multitude of amazing opportunities. I have traveled to new places; alone and with my family. I have discovered new products, new books, new trends and new restaurants, and been able to share them with my readers. I've met other wonderful writers and many incredible celebrities.
book reading fire
Reading has always been life unwrapped to me, a way of understanding the world and understanding myself through both the unknown and the everyday. If being a parent consists often of passing along chunks of ourselves to unwitting-often unwilling-recipients, then books are, for me, one of the simplest and most sure-fire ways of doing that.
book home somewhere-else
My home was in a pleasant place outside of Philadelphia. But I really lived, truly lived, somewhere else. I lived within the covers of books.
book past mystery
Every reader, I suspect, has a book like this somewhere in his or her past, a book that seemed to hold within it, at that moment, all the mysteries of the universe.
book reading home
Reading has always been my home, my sustenance, my great invincible companion. "Book love," Trollope called it. "It will make your hours pleasant to you as long as you live." Yet of all the many things in which we recognize some universal comfort...reading seems to be the one in which the comfort is most undersung...
book mean average
One of the things that got me on this topic for this book was that when I was researching the column I wrote in 2009 saying that I was stepping down from my column at "Newsweek" because I wanted to make room for newer, fresh voices out there, I discovered that in the year I was born, 1952, the average life expectancy of an American was 68. I was shocked by that figure and every time I mention it I hear a gasp from somebody in the crowd. Now, of course, we're more or less at 80, so that means that we've gotten 12 additional years.
book soul trying
In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul. Claire Bloom
book biographies
I had to do the book because there was an unauthorised biography which didn't tell it like it was. Cilla Black
book people elements
I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because in my opinion, if I mention the best movies or the best books, there's always something that's involving slightly darker element of out psyche. I like seeing people under pressure. I like seeing what happens to people when they're under pressure. Cillian Murphy
book writing objectivity
In the course of writing one historical book or another, it has happened that I could hardly restrain myself from simply copying entire documents. Indeed, I sometimes sank down among the documents and said to myself, I can't improve on these. Alfred Doblin
book rate burned
My books, at any rate, deserved to be burned.
book fiction scene
I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book. Alfred Hitchcock
book profound acquisition
In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is. Alfred Adler
book reading writing
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. Angela Carter