Quotes of: Book-writing Keyword

There are authors who write to communicate, there are authors who write to impress themselves.

Life

Writing starts with living. —Rumors of Water: Thoughts on Creativity & Writing

Life

I write because I hate. A lot. Hard.

William H. Gass

I wasn't trained as a writer-director. And the projects I write are difficult to finish.

Ziad Doueiri

Bullying Has Been Going On For So Long, That if it Was A Disease, Mankind Would We Have A Cure or At Least A Pill For It...Already! Bullying Ben The Book

Hearts for Haiti: Book of Poetry & Inspiration

Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.

The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child

Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my...

Bill Mumy

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.

The Akhenaten Adventure

The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.

Reading Between the Lines

The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.

So Many Books: Reading and Publishing in an Age of Abundance

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.

The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession

A book on war is useful, but it’d be even more useful if it could shoot bullets. Or stop them. Or stop illiteracy. Oh, If only Congress could read what they sign into law.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

We’ll make plans on sticky notes and we’ll stick to them. We’ll get married, but only after we buy some milk, cereal, and a book of baby names.

This Book is Not FOR SALE

The last time I saw love was in my imagination while reading a book on Thomas Jefferson. Isn’t the Constitution of the United States so romantic?

This Book is Not FOR SALE

No book is really worth reading at the age of 10 which is not equally worth reading at the age of 50.

Honey for a Child's Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life

A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies.

J. Patrick Lewis

I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it.

Meg Cabot

In the case of 'Ocean at the End of the Lane,' it's a book about helplessness. It's a book about family, it's a book about being 7 in a world of people who are bigger than you, and more dangerous, and stepping into territory that you don't entirely u...

Neil Gaiman

Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the o...

Gary Wolf

People still try to sell books that way - as 'books can take you to foreign lands.' We've given children this idea that reading and books are a nice option, if you want that kind of thing. I hope we can get over that idea.

Walter Dean Myers

The truly great books are always novels: 'Anna Karenina,' 'The Brothers Karamazov,' 'The Magic Mountain.' Just as with 'Shahnameh,' I browse these books from time to time to remember how a great book works on us or to teach my students at Columbia Un...

Orhan Pamuk