Georg C. Lichtenberg Quotes
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.Georg C. Lichtenberg
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
Garth Nix -
Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
Oscar Wilde -
My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.
Ed Emberley -
Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?
Pablo Picasso -
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan -
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
Daniel Clowes
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
E. L. Doctorow -
I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
Iain Banks -
I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
Gabrielle Zevin -
I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
Gayle Forman -
Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
Barry Schwartz -
My favorite book in life is 'A Wrinkle In Time,' which I read before high school. It was my first introduction into the meeting of science and spirit and the universe and big thoughts and all of those interesting New Age-y concepts. It made everything make sense to me and opened up my mind.
Mae Whitman -
When I finished graduate school, I had a master's of fine arts from a prestigious institution, a manuscript that would eventually become my first published book - and almost no marketable skills.
Victor LaValle -
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.
Ted Rall -
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just don't have time for a full-time teaching gig. Acting is way too time-consuming.
Danica McKellar
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I can't write the same book over and over again... let it go, once it's gone!
Jane Gardam -
Design is a plan for arranging elements in such a way as best to accomplish a particular purpose.
Charles Eames -
We've always been for women and for biggin' up their self-esteem. That's why we do songs like 'Independent.'
Pepa DJ Spinderella -
I love designing at the moment, I'm so happy with my work.
Vivienne Westwood -
Music was a large part of my life. and it is a bit cliche, but it's a way people come together.
Clyde Edgerton -
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Georg C. Lichtenberg