I'm a pretty open book.
On the other hand, inspiration - a criterion for canonization we might expect to play a great role - is not a factor. The Shepherd of Hermas and many writings either claimed inspiration or had it claimed for them, yet were neither universally nor ult...
What was the difference between Anne Frank and any other 15 year old girl living the same nightmare? Nothing! Aside from the fact that Anne spoke through her writings while others kept silent. Someone very special to me recently asked how can I write...
Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re cl...
The book of Jonah is one of the shortest books in the Bible. Yet, something beneath the surface whispers to us, hinting that there is much more beneath this little book. (page iii)
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.
Although the Bible is a living book, it will not jump into your palms pleading, "Read me please". You've to make a choice to do so!
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by birds and books on ornithologists written by birds
Stories are life," protested Pico. "Without them, books would be only paper and ink, with them they breathe, the reader is drawn in, the stories become him.
Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story.
I'm a book girl--I love all the stories the world has to offer. No matter the book, I will taste it and drink it down.
When we live our life as if it is an open book, we are free in body, mind, and spirit and allow anyone to read from our pages.
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of ...
Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you
because we all know that the books we’ve loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly
They will need you to put the right books in their hands, book in which they can lose themselves and books in which they can find themselves.
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.
I want to type one of my books into a free online translation website, and convert it from English to German and then publish the results as an exercise in the absurd.
My favorite smells are freshly baked bread, the pages of an old book, and they way my boss’ ass smells when he’s shouting at me.
People are like books. You can either read them, or you can burn them. But before I try to read you, I’ve got to ask, Are you a heretic?
