Steve Fossett (James Stephen "Steve" Fossett) Quotes
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.
Quotes to Explore
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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The wise are above books.
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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
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She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."
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Sometimes to speak as a woman is to cry, and to speak from our emotional, intuitive knowing, as opposed to graphs and charts and vertical lines. And that's scary - that's scary to do. And the fallout from it can be brutal.
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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.
