Book Quotes
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It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then.
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I look for two things when I am about to launch into a book. First, there has to be a dramatic arc to the story itself that will carry me, and the reader, from beginning to end. Second, the story has to weave through larger themes that can illuminate the world of the subject.
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I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.
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Religion, according to Alfred North Whitehead, is a phenomenon that begins in wonder and ends in wonder. Feelings of awe, reverence, and gratitude are primary, and these can never be learned from books. We gain them from sitting high on a cliff side, gazing at the sea, lost in reverie and listening to the laughter of children.
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I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
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When in many dissections, carried out as opportunity offered upon living animals, I first addressed my mind to seeing how I could discover the function and offices of the heart's movement in animals through the use of my own eyes instead of through the books and writings of others, I kept finding the matter so truly hard and beset with difficulties that I all but thought, with Fracastoro, that the heart's movement had been understood by God alone.
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Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on.
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A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.
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McCarthy's prose in 'Blood Meridian' comes blazing from the Book of Revelation.
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I never really considered 'Quantum & Woody' a comedic book or a funny book. I never thought of it as a satire.
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We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.
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Every writer dreams of writing a book that will touch people.
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When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
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I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
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The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another.
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Not being a comic book fan, being thrown into that and seeing the extreme - it's taken very seriously. So I tried to do as much learning as I could about it so I wasn't mean or anything.
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You can be precious about something like 'Blair Witch' and say, 'How dare you approach it as a sequel or remake' or whatever, but its legacy was so tarnished by 'Book of Shadows' that someone had to come in and do something in the spirit of the original.
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Each reader projects their own version of the experience inside their skull as they go along. It's probably true that no two people read exactly the same book.
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I look at the plotline and let my co-author basically write the book; first draft. Then they give it to me, and I totally destroy it and write all my stuff over it.
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I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
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Talking about how I might write the next book is like talking about whether or not to have sex. Any dithering ruins it.
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I do have a personal life. I spend half of the week at home. One of those nights, I'll go out with some friends and have a good time. I have a day and a half at home, and love to just sit on my backyard by my pool, read a book, or do some writing. That's my vacation.
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Life is like a book that never ends. Chapters close, but not the book itself.
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Despereaux looked down at the book, and something remarkable happened. The marks on the pages, the 'squiggles' as Merlot referred to them, arranged themselves into shapes. The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time
