Book Quotes
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WIDE, the margin between carte blanche and the white page. Nevertheless it is not in the margin that you can find me, but in the yet whiter one that separates the word-strewn sheet from the transparent, the written page from the one to be written in the infinite space where the eye turns back to the eye, and the hand to the pen, where all we write is erased, even as you write it. For the book imperceptibly takes shape within the book we will never finish. There is my desert.
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I wrote my first book in a toilet in a factory where I was a floor sweeper.
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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
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I want to hold onto this funny thing. God, it's gotten big on me. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why. I feel like I'm putting on weight. I feel fat. I feel like I'm saving a lot of things, and I don't know what. I might even start reading books.
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To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
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An unread book does nobody any good.
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Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.
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Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.
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We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.
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I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.
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When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
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Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.
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I love the book legacy of lies it amazing and is fun to read over and over again
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I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!
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Too many people write books as a calling card.
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When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.
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It is one thing to write a good sentence, another to write a good book.
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But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.
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You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
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The power of reading a great book is that you start thinking like the author. For those magical moments while you are immersed in the forests of Arden, you are William Shakespeare; while you are shipwrecked on Treasure Island, you are Robert Louis Stevenson; while you are communing with nature at Walden, you are Henry David Thoreau. You start to think like they think, feel like they feel, and use imagination as they would. Their references become your own, and you carry these with you long after you've turned the last page.
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You know, I'm pretty much an open book.
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A noble book! all men's book!
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A lot of the books that I grew up reading were pretty brutal, like the Redwall books.
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My books have been translated into various languages and sold in other countries, but I never have any contact with the foreign publishers and am so disconnected from that process that it seems almost imaginary. With 'How to Save a Life', I worked closely with Usborne editors and have been involved in the publicity.
