Book Quotes
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It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.
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I think after you write something and you're finished with it, there is a sense of loss. That this is a world I can't really re-enter the way that I could when I was working on it. The covers of the book close it to the writer.
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I called my book 'When I Stop Talking, You'll Know I'm Dead' because that's the truth. I will keep talking until the big hand comes down from Heaven. But I am a spiritual man and I believe that even that does not have to be the end.
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Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us the means to create peace through our speech and communication. A brilliant book.
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The most explosive book of the twentieth century... I'm not kidding, it explodes!!
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We're a pretty open-book family; we kind of lead with our hearts. There's nothing to hide.
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It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all...
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Any good history book is mainly just a long list of mistakes, complete with names and dates. It's very embarrassing.
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'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.
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I have great respect for the unconditional teachers called books. Because from a book, you can either learn, or you can’t.
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I can do a book in three months if I spend all day, seven days a week at it and, in fact, I work better that way.
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'Hang on a second-you already have my old laptop. Why do you want my new drives so badly?''Because my contract says I have to write a book, and it's much easier just to steal your life than to make something up.'
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So shaken as we are, so wan with care, Find we a time for frighted peace to pant And breathe short-winded accents of new broils To be commenced in stronds afar remote.
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Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma.'
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I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.
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I've seen 13, 14-year-olds opening CDs as though they're records from the 1920s, going 'Look at this - there's a little book!'... That makes me think the format has probably had its day.
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I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf.
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I wish I studied more religions, I wish I read the Bible, the Quran. I think as I get older, I will start to really dive into religions, just because I feel like there's truths in all of those books. Clearly. I'm saying there's truths in all of them.
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When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up.
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For the first ten years after I got out of graduate school, I studied success. I read every book I could get my hands on and took every training I could find, and that allowed me to become an expert in this area. I learned how to create high self-esteem and success in my own life and in the lives of others.
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I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old.
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If you are in difficulties with a book, try the element of surprise: attack it at an hour when it isn't expecting it.
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I wouldn't ever presume to say that I am a comic book fan.
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The movie, like the book before it, is an expertly built machine for the mass production of tears. Directed by Josh Boone 'Stuck in Love', with scrupulous respect for John Green's best-selling young-adult novel, the film sets out to make you weep - not just sniffle or choke up a little, but sob until your nose runs and your face turns blotchy. It succeeds.
