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Or -- and this she knew was a far more accurate way of looking at it -- the book was true and reality was lying.
I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and hope it will get better.
I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading.
Your book grows. The early part of your book is growing still while you are writing the later part of your book.
There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.
My inspiration is life. My family, my friends, travelling, books, music, love, food, fashion. What inspires you?
Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child.
before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book.
I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
Most of my books begin with an image or a voice - one small thing - and I don't know what it is going to become.
I do then with my friends as I do with my books. I would have them where I can find them, but I seldom use them.
As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.
The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others.
I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.
There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
Metal guys are huge nerds. A good percentage of them are either horror or sci-fi or comic book or fantasy nerds.
When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't try.
With great lawyers you have discussed lepers and crooks, you've been through all of F. Scott Fitzgerald's books.
That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read.
If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely.
Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.
I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see it in you.
Canada is a country where the serious writers are hockey fans and readers of comic books. They don't play chess.
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.
There are thousands of books on the joy of gardening and cooking. Alas, there are only few on the joy of living.
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
I can't pass up a blank book when I see it in a bookstore. And I write a sentence in it, and then I put it away.
Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.
His books were the closest thing he had to furniture and he lived in them the way other men live in easy chairs.
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books.
People are always telling me that they've seen people reading my books on the subway, or the beach, or whenever.
I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.
Books light the fire-whether it's a book that's already written, or an empty journal that needs to be filled in.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.
Memorization of variations could be even worse than playing in a tournament without looking in the books at all.
I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
The worst thing in life is boredom. When people don't know what to do with themselves, they are very, very poor.
I'm a big comic book nerd so every time I'm in costume and see everyone in costume I'm just like "This is sick."
(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor!
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds.
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.