Book Quotes - Page 34

• I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

  Joel Plaskett

  Use, Language, Written Word

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

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• There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Style, Not Interested

  Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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• After I published my first book, my sister, known as Kali Willows, began writing. She fell as in love with it as I did. She has a number of short stories.

  Franny Armstrong

  Writing, Numbers, Stories

  Source: romancing-the-book.com

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• I like to pretend that each book is my first one and last one, because it takes a tremendous amount of energy to do a book.

  Jan Brett

  Energy, Lasts, Firsts

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his titles, I tell the clerk to order what is missing. I do it because I want people to read my father's work.

  John Fante

  Father, Order, People

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• Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

  Lee Gutkind

  Pain, Hard Work, Want

  Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com

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• I stay in contact with kids, and that is a lot of fun for me, not only to get their letters but to meet them in schools and see that the books really have engaged their hearts and imaginations. That's what makes it so worthwhile.

  Will Hobbs

  Fun, Heart, School

  Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu

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• The books take a year just to do the drawing. I will travel to a country to do the research and get ideas. Sometimes I don't travel to do research, but mostly I do. It takes a long time, but do I ever get tired of it? Not really. The characters kind of grow and evolve.

  Jan Brett

  Country, Tired, Character

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

  Dave Ulrich

  Writing

  "Dave and Wendy Ulrich: An interview by Bob Morris". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Inspiration, Reading, Different

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• I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can't find it.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Moving, Paris, Office

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• I was kind of a weird homie; I was a weird kid. Nobody in my family loved books. I'm the only one.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Kids, Family Love, Kind

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• I moved into the garage at my mom's house, she wouldn't let me into the house, and the garage didn't have any running water. It did have electricity though, but it didn't have any running water, no bathroom. But, you know, it was great for me because I had my books there.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Mom, Running, Water

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• I will never know what it's like to have only one language in my head. I have the pleasure of being able to move back and forth between Spanish and English, and I incorporate both languages in my books.

  Pat Mora

  Moving, Able, Language

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• When I was little, I loved books that gave me lots of detail so that I felt like I could be transported to this other place, or, in the case of an illustration, I felt like I could walk into the page.

  Jan Brett

  Illustration, Details, Littles

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I always feel like my book is a success when I see a child reading it, and they have their pointer finger out, and they kind of keep their place as they look all around the page. I've always been impressed by how children are so observant.

  Jan Brett

  Children, Reading, Looks

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• A children's book is the perfect place where young readers can understand the world because they can take a deep breath and look at it and imagine and contemplate while they're looking at.

  Jan Brett

  Children, Perfect, Looks

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I create books for six-year-olds. I don't know why that time of my life was so important to me, but no matter what I draw, it always looks like it comes from a children's book. I can't resist. I'll set out to paint a serious picture then think, "Well, maybe there would be a little bunny in that corner."

  Jan Brett

  Children, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

  Daniel Handler

  Calm, Knows

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• When I was ten, my mother told me to write down my feelings. I eventually started writing a book. I wish I'd kept the handwritten text. I recall some of the story, but it was a start into the world of writing.

  Franny Armstrong

  Mother, Writing, Feelings

  Source: romancing-the-book.com

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• I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.

  Dave McKean

  Jobs, Teenager, Artist

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Confusing the author and the character seems to be a popular and rather unsophisticated reaction to books.

  Mark Lawrence

  Character, Confusing, Reactions

  "Peter Orullian Interviews The Mark Lawrence" by Shawn Speakman, www.unboundworlds.com. June 2, 2015.

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• It's not about you, it's about the next person. The single best use of a business book is to help someone else. Sharing what you read, handing the book to a person who needs it... pushing those around you to get in sync and to take action-that's the main reason it's a book, not a video or a seminar. A book is a souvenir and a container and a motivator and an easily leveraged tool. Hoarding books makes them worth less, not more.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Next, Pushing

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• What they don't realize is that I'm not in the business to make clothes. I'm not in the business to make more money for myself, for Christ's sake. This is the reason Patagonia exists - to put into action the recommendations I read about in books to avoid environmental collapse. That's the reason I'm in business - to try to clean up our own act, and try to influence other companies to do the right thing, and try to influence our customers to do the right thing. So we're not going to change.

  Yvon Chouinard

  Business, Clothes, Trying

  "Patagonia clothing founder ponders politics, saving Earth". Interview with Amanda Griscom Little, www.nbcnews.com. October 28, 2004.

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• I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.

  Kate Grenville

  Thinking, Quality, Sacred

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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