Quotes of: Long-book Keyword

Some people sleep their lives away. But I also want to sleep death away. If I sleep long enough, maybe death will think I’m already dead and pass me by.

This is the best book I've ever written, and it still sucks

I spent much of my prison time reading. I must have read over 200 large books, mostly fictional stories about the American pioneers, the Vikings, Mafia, etc. As long as I was engrossed in a book, I was not in prison. Reading was my escape.

A White Man Speaks Out

When I'm writing, I try not to think things like, 'Gosh, I have to finish writing this book.' Books are very long and it's easy to get discouraged. Instead I think to myself, 'Wow, I have this great story idea, and today I'm going to write two pages ...

Linda Sue Park

Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes from voraciously reading books—long books that require focused attention. It comes from meaningful discourse with ...

Joshua Rogers

The character I created, 'Commissario Brunetti,' who appears in all my books, shares similar reading, artistic and musical tastes with me. Subconsciously, I knew that if I was to spend however long it would take to write this book with him, this man ...

Donna Leon

I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love with Edward before every other girl that says she's in love with him was. Because I read them a long time ago shooting a movie in Salt Lake ...

Nina Dobrev

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

Daddy-Long-Legs

My animal howls My angel's upset But I'm not allowed A trace of regret

Book of Longing

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.

Mary Garden

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

Antony Beevor

The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.

Orhan Pamuk

Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books.

Jane Green

I've really written my books for my husband and our family. They've brought us closer together by allowing us to discuss things that were unspoken for so long.

Pamela Stephenson

During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.

Nolan Gould

A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Henry Brooke

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good.

Jasper Fforde

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.

C.S. Lewis

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books.

Jasper Fforde

When I was a kid, I always thought that I'd be a comic book artist. It took a long time to start thinking that I could be a musician.

Daniel Johnston

Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas.

Anita Elberse