Book Quotes - Page 29

• 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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• Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.

  Kate Grenville

  Way, Needs, Advantage

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

  Sefi Atta

  Fun, Writing, Years

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure I have the right dynamics in place and understand each character's belief system, fears, coping mechanisms and things like that.

  Chevy Stevens

  Character, Coping Mechanisms, Dynamics

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• I always write too long in the beginning, then it is a matter of going through it over and over again on subsequent drafts, looking for anything that slows down the narrative. It can be hard, cutting out parts I love, but I try to make the book as tight as possible so that the reader doesn't get bored.

  Chevy Stevens

  Writing, Cutting, Long

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• I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.

  Sefi Atta

  Editors, Names, Differences

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• People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Believe, People, Causes

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• In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Ideas, Social, Force

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• We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the West is made up of individuals who are free to decide what meaning to give to their lives-in short the glory of the West is that life is an open book,[1] while under Islam, life is a closed book, everything has been decided for you: God and the Holy Law set limits on the possible agenda of your life.

  Ibn Warraq

  Real, Law, Goal

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spend her life with? I've read that story a million times, but a stepmother deciding which of her children she'll save in a freak accident? Now that's a challenge.

  Jillian Medoff

  Children, Writing, Men

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• My novels are never truly finished, even if they're published and sitting on the shelf. While I may no longer be interested in spending time with that particular set of characters, I can't help but think about all the ways the book could be different, the small, insignificant tweaks that no one but me would ever notice.

  Jillian Medoff

  Character, Thinking, Different

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• I tend to be known for different things. I mean, there are a lot of comics or sci-fi fans out there who sort of think of me doing that kind of work, but there are just as many people who like the CD covers I've done, or the children's books I've done. So different people like different things.

  Dave McKean

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Source: asitecalledfred.com

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• I'm a huge science fan; I read a lot of science books. But I'm not a scientist, my interest in science is I love the facts, but I like to interpret those facts. They become the raw materials for stories and paintings and things.

  Dave McKean

  Fans, Raw Materials, Stories

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• The inspiration is all in the script, in the text. So whatever it is, either it is a film or a book to be illustrated, anything. Everything you need to know is in the text. So the thing is trying to find right tone and voice, the right style, the right way of expressing the emotions in a story or in the location of the story, but it is all in the text.

  Dave McKean

  Inspiration, Voice, Style

  Source: www.thestorymint.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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• I believe my high school book said I was most likely to become a candlestick maker. Guessing I didn't exactly exude confidence but just goes to show you that your path is yours to choose and make the best of and not for someone else to tell you what you can or cannot be.

  Arlene Dickinson

  Believe, School, Path

  Source: yourmcmurraymagazine.com

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• I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

  Eve Bunting

  Taken, Years, Stories

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.

  Eve Bunting

  Writing, Titles, Sometimes

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.

  Eve Bunting

  Writing, Retiring, Ifs

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• I always have strong feelings when I'm writing a book. Sometimes when I'm writing a book, I even cry when I'm writing. Once I read a quotation that I thought was very true for me, which is: "No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."

  Eve Bunting

  Strong, Reading, Writing

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

  Scott Cohen

  Character, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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• The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

  Cate Marvin

  Track, World, Migration

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• That is a goal, to step out on stage and to actually be present. Honestly alive and present. Although, it doesn't always happen. We're fallible, we're imperfect. That's what a lot of books are written about; that's what a lot of religions have sought after is that kind of zen mentality of just being totally neutral and open and vulnerable to all of the forces in the universe without being attached to them.

  Dan Mangan

  Goal, Alive, Just Being

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• One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and use them wisely. When you give them to fictional people and a fictional story, their purpose and their meaning changes, so it's best to see the version in the book as fiction entirely, wherever it started out.

  Nick Earls

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Class, Personality, Today

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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