Book Quotes - Page 17

• Usually when I finish the draft of a book, I'm sure I'll never write another one. I'm just that tired and sick of myself. But then another idea starts percolating. It usually begins with the narrator's name, then some idea that intrigues me about her life or situation. I try to ignore it as long as I can, because I know when I start writing, I'll be right back into it, every single day. But eventually, I just have to. It's a compulsion!

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Tired, Names

  Source: fortheloveofya.com

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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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• I look for interesting titles that are curious and make people think. A lot of people are always so caught up in their lives. But if I make them smile through my titles or provoke them a little bit then maybe they will think about things and read the book and take something away from it.

  Robin Sharma

  Thinking, People, Interesting

  Source: www.gqindia.com

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• I love reading - inspirational books, leadership books, biographies. I exercise a lot and put on my audio book. Even If you would offer me a million dollars for my iPod I wouldn't give it to you, because I have some great things on it.

  Robin Sharma

  Reading, Exercise, Ipods

  Source: www.gqindia.com

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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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• I am a Christian resident of New York City. I simply read things the other Manhattanites read (NY Times, New Yorker magazine, Wall Street Journal, and many of the books they read) plus all my Christian reading. I don't do anything special to understand skeptics. I also talk to a lot of skeptics and read things they point to.

  Timothy Keller

  Christian, New York, Wall

  Source: www.monergism.com

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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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• Every book changes my writing because I'm always trying to do something I didn't do before. I try to do what's hard for me, what I haven't done in the past.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Writing, Past, Always Trying

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• I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book.I posted chapters online and let people give feedback, and I was surprised at how much of that feedback I actually used for the book. It was a different process for me, but I liked it.

  Donald Miller

  People, Giving, Different

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• I posted the first three chapters and I had enough people say that chapter two was dragging that I cut it out just before the book went to press. And I'm glad I did. The book is a lot better without it.

  Donald Miller

  Cutting, Two, People

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• I had some friends commenting me books, but mostly it was people I didn't know. But they're fans. They're fans of the books, so they have a working knowledge of how I write, and they know what they like and what they don't like. I'm really grateful for their feedback.

  Donald Miller

  Grateful, Writing, People

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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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• There's a lot of letters, and a lot of people come say "hi" at book signings, but I'm amazed at how normal everybody is.

  Donald Miller

  People, Letters, Normal

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• I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.

  Donald Miller

  Art, War, Writing

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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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• [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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• I think there is something barbaric in children, and it's missing in lots of books for them because we don't like to think of it. We want them to be happy [but] childhood is a very tough time.

  Maurice Sendak

  Children, Thinking, Tough Times

  Source: blankonblank.org

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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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• 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, Add

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “Kurt Vonnegut: The Last Interview: And Other Conversations”, p.140, Melville House

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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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