Book Quotes - Page 19

• I think my biggest problem, though, at least in drafts, is not repeating myself. After eight books I get worried that a character or piece of dialog might be too much like something I've already done. So it's a challenge to keep it fresh.

  Sarah Dessen

  Character, Thinking, Eight

  Interview with Adele Walsh, www.persnicketysnark.com. April 18, 2010.

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• I attempt to read one book every day. I don't always achieve that, especially when I'm traveling. But when I'm home, I read almost a book a day. I certainly read a minimum of two or three a week. And as a result of that, I've read over 3,000 books in areas that interest me, like consciousness and spirituality, holistic health, leadership, success, psychological awareness, therapy, etc.

  Jack Canfield

  Home, Two, Etc

  "Holistic Education and Lifelong Success. An Interview with Jack Canfield, coauthor of Chicken Soup for the Soul". Interview with Dennis Hughes, www.shareguide.com.

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• All my books have been titled based on a piece of the prose from inside the book.

  Donald Miller

  Pieces, Prose, Has Beens

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• Most apologetic books are really written for Christians, even the ones that purport to be written for non-believers.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Apologetic, Non Believer

  Newfrontiers Interview, www.terryvirgo.org. September 25, 2008.

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• One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I must say this is the first book I've read by a Christian that didn't treat me like I was an idiot.'

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, Firsts, Idiot

  Newfrontiers Interview, www.terryvirgo.org. September 25, 2008.

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• Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly.

  Stephen Chbosky

  People, Reason, Wanted

  "INTERVIEW – Stephen Chbosky brings ‘Perks of Being a Wallflower’ to moviegoers". Interview with Brent Hankins, nerdrepository.com. September 27, 2012.

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• Many of the most important principles of intelligence cannot by taught at universities, from books, or through other temporal learning processes. Often these great principles are learned from afflictions, tribulations, and other mortal experiences. All that we learn in this manner will benefit us not only in this life but also in the next, for 'whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection'.

  Monte J. Brough

  Adversity, Important, Benefits

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• When you write, you're alone in a room. And when someone reads a book, they're alone in a room, too, usually. It's a really intimate exchange. And so people ask me where I get the boldness to talk about this or that, but I didn't feel like it required any sort of courage, because I was alone. Sometimes it feels weird for people to read it.

  Donald Miller

  Writing, People, Rooms

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• Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Spirit, Notable, Pity

  Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

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• Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.

  Donald Miller

  Trying, Half, Picks

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• Storytelling is how history is passed. It's what our ancestors did, it's what everybody's done. It has to come back into a story because otherwise, it's stuck in this book and it's boring and it's academic and I'm not against intelligence and I'm not against education, I don't want to be misunderstood, but we have tell the stories to our young people a little bit early and history gives us a lot of things.

  Nikki Giovanni

  People, Giving, Misunderstood

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. April 2007.

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• I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Writing, Feelings

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• My best ideas come to me at unexpected moments, like when I'm reading children's books to my kids (the pictures inspire me), shopping, driving somewhere, seeing different things.

  Mary Engelbreit

  Children, Reading, Kids

  Source: sara-mincy.blogspot.com

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• My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Country, War, Should Have

  Source: www.penguinrandomhouse.com

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• I had some very, very fond memories of the people I worked with and the authors I worked with - and I won't mention any names - but as I have been traveling through rural Maine over the past few weeks, one of my favorite things to do is to go into bookstores on the side of rural routes and paw through the old copies of Tom Clancy and Trevanian books they have in there for weird old 1970s thrillers that I haven't read yet.

  John Hodgman

  Memories, Past, Names

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Heart, Spinning, Wheels

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• I don't base my books on my life (thank goodness) and I don't pick the topic first. In fact, the topic picks me - via a question I can't answer as a mom, a wife, a woman, an American. I find myself wondering "What if..." and it blossoms into a whole novel.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mom, Ifs And, Wife

  Source: www.bookclubforum.co.uk

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• Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Common, Hinduism

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.120, Orient Paperbacks

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• If you have no love, do what you will - go after all the gods on earth, do all the social activities, try to reform the poor, the politics, write books, write poems - you are a dead human being. Without love your problems will increase, multiply endlessly.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Wisdom, Fun, Love You

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1965). “Talks by Krishnsmurti in India, 1965: Madras, Bombay, New Delhi [and] Varanasi: authentic report”

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• What I've discovered more recently is copies of books that I didn't represent, but that my boss represented when I assisted her on the dollar pile. I won't mention any names, but it is this profoundly bittersweet time of realizing, "Oh, I had a wonderful time working on this book and now it is a dollar relic on the side of the road."

  John Hodgman

  Names, Boss, Dollars

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". The A.V. Club Interview, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• When we learn to read, it's a real product of civilization and a civilized society. It affects your brain. It affects the way you think, and it gives you that capacity for self-reflection that you simply do not have without the agency of books.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Real, Thinking, Reflection

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• [To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.

  Nikki Giovanni

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with Scholastic students, www.scholastic.com. 2002.

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• Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books. It feels like the known place and also the beginning of a new adventure. It has that simultaneous paradoxical effect of making me feel absolutely calm and very excited.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Adventure, Sea, People

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in between. That's something that would be good to bridge so it doesn't have to be one thing or the other. Books could be part of life in a more relaxed way. I'd like to see that.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Bridges, People, Would Be

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• I don't write the same book over and over - I think if I did that, I would stop writing. I couldn't write a series with the same character, and I couldn't write a romance novel over and over again that takes place at a different beach every year. That's not who I am.

  Jodi Picoult

  Beach, Writing, Character

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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