Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Today I will be a successful sales professional, and I will learn something today that will make me even more professional tomorrow.
For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy.
When I started to write, it was the '70s, and throughout that decade, we didn't have any problems with book challenges or censorship.
I think Americans like the practical; they like the human. And I like both those things myself, and I try and put them into my books.
Books were despised by the Viking Tribes, as they were seen as a horrible civilizing influence and a threat to the barbarian culture.
For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.
As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while.
The awesome part about The Book of Awesome is the realization that if you enjoy the simple moments in your life, you will be happier.
Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.
That wonderful book, while it obtains admiration from the most fastidious critics, is loved by those who are too simple to admire it.
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
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.
I have always been an obsessive reader - I remember going back and forth to the local library with stacks of books taller than I was.
It is significant that one says book lover and music lover and art lover but not record lover or CD lover or, conversely, text lover.
Eduardo Halfon is a brilliant storyteller, whose gifts are displayed on every page of this beautiful, daring, and deeply humane book.
When I feel difficulty coming on, I switch to another book I'm writing. When I get back to the problem, my unconscious has solved it.
When you're done [with writing a book], people tell you "Well, gee, I'm not interested." "Great, I'm glad I sat down and wrote this!"
I write a thousand words a day. Nothing will stop me, I mean nothing, until the book is finished. I'm disciplined in spite of myself.
Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart.
Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."
They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books.
An unfinished book. left unattended, turns feral, and she would need all her focus, will and ruthless determination to tame it again.
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is hard to tell.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
The text-book is rare that stimulates its reader to ask, Why is this so? Or, How does this connect with what has been read elsewhere?
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
I want 'Like Brothers' to answer young kids who ask, 'How could I possibly become a filmmaker?' This book will step that out for you.
What people value in their books—and thus what they count as literature—really tells you more about them than it does about the book.
My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.
But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.
The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you've read.
I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence.
I want to play the Green Lantern. I'd love to do a comic book hero. Go to the gym, get all buff, puff up. That would be a lot of fun.
Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance.
When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.
Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.
I mean, there are peripheral things I do, I do photography, I write plays, I have books published, but that's neither here not there.
Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.
When you're writing a book, you don't want it to be overly trendy because you want people to enjoy it for years and refer back to it.
In some ways all of my fiction is like a conversation I'm having with the writers I read when I was first falling in love with books.
Let us read with method, and propose to ourselves an end to which our studies may point. The use of reading is to aid us in thinking.
The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.