Book Quotes - Page 24

• Those of us who think about what we eat, how it's grown, those of us who care about the environmental impact of food - we've been educated by fabulous books, like Fast Food Nation and documentaries like Food Inc. But despite these and other great projects that shine a critical light on the topic, every year the food industry spends literally tens of millions of dollars to shape the public conversation about our food system.

  Anna Lappe

  Thinking, Impact, Light

  "Anna Lappé Is Ready to Bust the Food Industry’s Biggest Myths". Interview with Tom Philpott, www.motherjones.com. October 2, 2013.

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• The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

  Philip Pullman

  Believe, Pay, Revolution

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.

  Patti Smith

  Beautiful, Mean, Looks

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

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• The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

  Patti Smith

  Dirty, Thinking

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work.

  Patti Smith

  Writing, Rocks, Records

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

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• Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

  Julia Alvarez

  Imagination, Passionate, Alive

  Source: ncac.org

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• It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Passionate, Way

  Source: ncac.org

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• Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

  Julia Alvarez

  Reading, Difficult Situations, Class

  Source: ncac.org

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• I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I do not hesitate to write them into my books. My reader mail tells me this is something that readers especially like about my books.

  Debbie Macomber

  Strong, Writing, Important

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I'm an optimist and my heroines seem to be that way, too. It's too much work to be cynical and distrusting. That doesn't mean I create perfect stories and perfect people, however. What this means is that my stories are resolved in a manner that leaves the reader with a feeling of hope and happy expectation . . . and wanting to reach for another one of my books.

  Debbie Macomber

  Mean, People, Perfect

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

  Patrick Marber

  Isolation, Periods, Rhythm

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace.

  Molly Ringwald

  Grace, Important, Saving

  "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Whenever people ask me how I manage to get through this whole crazy time of being incredibly famous and sort of an icon and supposedly a role model and all of this insanity, I always cite my family and then books. I don't know what I would have done without books.

  Molly Ringwald

  Crazy, Icons, Role Models

  "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

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• I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

  Molly Ringwald

  Mean, Thinking, Stopping

  "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

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• The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

  Molly Ringwald

  Running, Wonderful, Findings

  "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

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• Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing.

  Karl Marlantes

  Writing, Important, Trying

  "A Vietnam Epic Uncovers Old Wounds: An Interview with Karl Marlantes". Interview with Evan James, www.motherjones.com. April 30, 2010.

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• Every book is a kind of struggle, and it's a miracle when it comes out.

  Aravind Adiga

  Struggle, Miracle, Kind

  "MoJo Interview: Aravind Adiga". Interview with Sonja Sharp, www.motherjones.com. June 19, 2009.

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• The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde, people who weren't losers but who didn't believe in the work ethic, and argued this thing about guilt or wrote philosophy about idleness.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Philosophy, Believe, People

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Writing, Idlers, Done

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• I think that good writing is based on good reading. Maybe it's not about writing today, maybe it's about reading today. Maybe it's about finding the sort of book you would never read.

  Saul Williams

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it.

  Saul Williams

  New York, Practice, Feet

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Writing, Responsibility

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

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• Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

  Blake Butler

  Reality, Enough Time, Needs

  Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.

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• I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

  Erica Jong

  Inspire, Trying, Needs

  Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Drinking, Wine, Relevant

  Source: www.believermag.com

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