Jesse Ball Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I believe my friends think I'm funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

  Jesse Ball

  Believe, Book, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• Clarity is the most important thing to me - in thinking - and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

  Jesse Ball

  Book, Thinking, Important

  Source: therumpus.net

• I don't think anything needs to happen in a book.

  Jesse Ball

  Book, Thinking, Needs

  Source: therumpus.net

• A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

  Jesse Ball

  Book, Sticks, Would Be

  Source: therumpus.net

• As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

  Jesse Ball

  Jobs, Book, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

• The books turn out to be about things afterwards. I don't go into them with concepts, for the most part.

  Jesse Ball

  Book, Turns, Concepts

  Source: therumpus.net

• I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

  Jesse Ball

  Book, Pages, Type

  Source: therumpus.net

• A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

  Jesse Ball

  Book, Boys, Ideas

  Source: therumpus.net

• I don't read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

  Jesse Ball

  Book, Desperation, Pleasure

  Source: therumpus.net

• I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have - that's mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

  Jesse Ball

  Book, Luck, Might

  Source: therumpus.net

• I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

  Jesse Ball

  Confused, Book, Helping

  Source: therumpus.net

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