3541 Book Quotes for You to Enjoy

Granted, a long book can be as daunting as a hard one. I nearly reached for 'Game of Thrones' until I saw the bookshelf sagging under the burden of those other volumes. Dave Morris

Game Book Burden Long Other Saw Bookshelf Those Daunting Volumes Reached Until Game Of Thrones Granted Hard Nearly

It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink, letter, tone, and fill the back of a monthly comic book for 26 years. Dave Sim

Book Pure Back Monthly Pencil Would Write Part Comic Comic Book Years Whether Stamina Fill Letter Ink Tone

My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there. David A. Adler

Life Me Book First Research Our Books Those Bought Like She Were Places Each Lived Biography Set

The book of the Psalms, which is the primary devotional literature of the whole Bible, is full of complaints. David Augsburger

Bible Book Complaints Primary Devotional Psalms Literature Which Full Whole

I believe that I improve with every book I write - most writers will probably tell you the same thing. I'm still learning my craft and will be until the day I drop dead at my computer. In my opinion, art isn't something that can be perfected. There's always room for improvement. David B. Coe

Art Day You Learning Book Will Drop Same Thing Believe Every Tell Something Computer Write Writers Most Until Dead Opinion Always Still Improve Improvement Same Craft In My Opinion Room Thing

It's always easiest for me as a writer if I know I have a great ending. It can make everything else work. If you don't have a good ending, it's the hardest things in the world to come up with one. I always loved the ending of 'The Kite Runner,' and the scenes that are most faithful to the book are the last few scenes. David Benioff

Work Good Great Me You Book World Ending Faithful Few Else Everything Everything Else Easiest Runner Scenes Kite Writer Come Know Most Make Always Up Loved Hardest Things Last

For every Book of Job, there's a Book of Leviticus, featuring some of the most boring prose ever written. But if you were stranded on a desert island, what book would better reward long study? And has there ever been a more beautiful distillation of existential philosophy than the Book of Ecclesiastes? David Benioff

Beautiful You Book Better Reward Job Long Every Philosophy Would Boring Some More Written Prose Study Most Island Were Been Existential Than Stranded Desert Desert Island Ever

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages. David Benioff

Book Philosophers Simon Through Dead Quick Sketches Ages

I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels. David Bergen

Book Somehow Inspires Always Use Novels

I tend to push whatever is looking over my shoulder away when I am writing. It's once the box of books arrive that I say I'm going to be pilloried for this or that. But then you realize it's done, and there is nothing I can do. I'm proud of the book. David Bergen

You are only as good as your last book, and so there has to be a book. David Bergen

Good You Book Only Your Last

Every year, the Giller jury is different. You write the best book you can and throw it out there. David Bergen

Best You Book Year Every Out Throw Write Jury Different

I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic. David Blaine

When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate. David Brock

Book Everything Hill Wrote Accurate Believed

'Detroit' started based on a book called 'The Singularity is Near' by Ray Kurzweil, which is about this idea that one day there could be machines that are more intelligent than we are. David Cage

Day Book Machines One Day About More Could Detroit Ray Idea Singularity Intelligent Than Which Based Near Started

I was a war correspondent in Korea. I did a book on it: 'This is War.' David Douglas Duncan

War Book Correspondent Korea Did War Correspondent

I wish a book could reach as many people as film, but we have to be realistic about it. David Grann

Book People Wish Realistic About Could Reach Many Film

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it. David Guterson

Book Though Out Emerge Insisting Write Almost Major Doing Intend May Just Places Even Players Set

With the marketing pressures driving the book world today, it's much easier to get the author of a memoir on a television show than a serious novelist. David Halberstam

Today Book World Marketing Easier Television Pressures Television Show Memoir Driving Than Author Get Much Show Novelist Serious

I have a Guinness Book of World Records entry as the most-watched person on television; now I have a new entry as the only man who has a crab named after him. David Hasselhoff

Man Book World Television Guinness Only Records Entry New Named Him Crab Person After Who Now World Records

For a wide-ranging look at literary matters, the 'Book Review Podcast' from the 'New York Times' is still one of the best. Presented by Pamela Paul, each episode has an interview with an author - recent guests have included Neil Gaiman and Sana Krasikov - plus a roundup of the uppers, downers and hanging-arounders on the U.S. bestsellers chart. David Hepworth

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As so many writers know, the experience of creating an imaginary world is closer to dreaming than it is to normal, grit-your-teeth work. It's preconscious rather than conscious. Ideas fall into your head, and the book writes you, rather than the other way around. David Ignatius

Work You Experience Book World Fall Other Way Dreaming Rather Writers Writes Head Ideas Know Around Normal Than Closer Creating Your Many Conscious Imaginary Imaginary World

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