Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.
Who God doth late and early pray, More of his grace than gifts to send, And entertains the harmless day With a well-chosen book or friend.
I looked at Tank Girl, which is the coolest comic, ever. The movie didn't make the comic book any less cool. The comic is still the comic.
Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming.
Homeliness is almost as great a merit in a book as in a house, if the reader would abide there. It is next to beauty, and a very high art.
I've always wanted to have a book published - it was a dream of mine, but the thought of actually writing a book made me feel really sick.
'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a smaller book.
I like these nonfiction books where everything that is interesting about them is lost in that catch-all description of their "about"-ness.
Men need rule books. Women want men to intuit what they want. And only about 2% of men can do that, and most of them are not heterosexual.
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children.
I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having a need-to-read moment.
I was once a journalist. And I think of myself as a journalist, and that's it. You tell the truth. I even wrote a book called 'The Truth'.
I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.
What makes books - and with them writers - so dangerous that church and state, politburos and the mass media feel the need to oppose them?
Dvoretsky's Endgame Manual ... may well be the chess book of the year... [It] comes close to an ultimate one-volume manual on the endgame.
The peace of the celestial city is the perfectly ordered and harmonious enjoyment of God, and of one another in God. (City of God, Book 19)
I don't believe in children's books. I think after you've read Kidnapped, Treasure Island, and Huckleberry Finn, you're ready for anything.
There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds; and these invaluable communications are within the reach of all.
Europe needs to develop a sense of collective history - we need to write books from a European perspective, to teach it in schools as well.
In a school community, someone who reads a book for some secretive purpose, other than discussing it, is strange. What was she reading for?
Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.
You can never visit the same place twice. Each time, it's a different story. By the very act of coming back, you wipe out what came before.
I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language.
Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.
Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.
The Bible's the greatest book ever written. But I sure don't need anybody I can buy for six bits and a chew of tobacco to explain it to me.
I don't keep my books around... they would embarrass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.
I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books.
Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
I've always wrestled with the difference between plot and structure, and after re-reading a lot of writing books I realized I wasn't alone.
I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them.
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
Hebrews . This book is much superior to most of the writings attributed to St. Paul, though passages in the other books are very admirable.
Books were put out, and 'had a run,' / Like coinage from the mint; / But which could fill the place of one, / That one they wouldn't print?
When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.
I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
When you're a working writer, sooner or later friends and acquaintances will get you alone and confide that they, too, have a book in them.
You come home to find your 17-year-old daughter engrossed in a book. Which would delight you more - if it were 'Twilight' or 'Middlemarch?'
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant and profitable reflections?
I think I'm like most novelists in that my books have gotten farther and farther away from autobiography the longer I've been writing them.
As I published books, I realized, that's not really what I want. I don't care about the books as much anymore. I just want to write poetry.
Illustrators are word people who happen to draw. We work with one foot in a book, the other stuck in a paint pot. Our shoes are a disgrace.
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
I give this book 5 Stars and highly recommend it to all fiction, nonfiction, and poetry writers, aspiring writers, bloggers or journalists.
I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to do something to relieve the itch.
A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
Perhaps nothing is more magical then the book. Paper, glue and some words and you are taken away from where you sit, stand, dance, or lean.