Book Quotes - Page 32

• My work is very dear to me, and certainly I have had all the emotional highs and lows that go with trying to get it to an audience. But I do have some kind of detachment that seems somewhat unusual in my trade. I'm a writer who writes every day. I don't have a period of months where I can't get anything done and I wander around tearing my hair out. When I come back from a book tour, for instance, I might have one day where I sleep late and then check my e-mail, and then go for a walk, and then the next day I'm really itching to get back at writing a story.

  Daniel Handler

  Writing, Sleep, Emotional

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with the individual book, and on a macro level with the series as a whole, and that's pretty much what's happened.

  Daniel Handler

  Writing, Half, Levels

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

  Daniel Handler

  Calm, Knows

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.

  Daniel Handler

  People, Fans, Odd

  Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2005.

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• In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book. They talk about a subtitle in a chapter and if you ask them about the headline, the main title, they say they do not know.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Titles, United States, Headlines

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• I dislike reading business books, although I skim a lot of them.

  Brad Feld

  Reading, Dislike

  Source: money.cnn.com

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• I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

  Stanley Williams

  Children, Writing, Blood

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it has sort of it's own narrative that one could analyze and write literary criticism about.

  Tao Lin

  Writing, Criticism, Looks

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

  Tao Lin

  Reading, People, Drug

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• My publisher had mailed [Bret Easton Ellis] Richard Yates. And when I talked to him he said he had read all my prose books. And he said something like, "You got a lot of mileage out of Dakota Fanning."

  Tao Lin

  Like You, Said, Prose

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't know what Douglas Coupland thinks about his writing. I've read maybe one page of one of his books and didn't think I was similar to him. But it seems like people just compare you to anyone, pretty much.

  Tao Lin

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The Lord does not show Himself to a proud soul. The proud soul, no matter how many books it reads, will never know God, since by its pride it does not give place for the grace of the Holy Spirit, while God is known only by the humble soul.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• Whoever wants to approach prayer without a guide, and proudly thinks that he can learn from books, and won't go to an elder, is already halfway into delusion. But the Lord helps the humble, and if there is no experienced guide, and he goes to a confessor, whoever he may be, then the Lord will cover him because of his humility.

  Silouan the Athonite

  Inspirational, Christian, Religious

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• That small word "Force," they make a barber's block, Ready to put on Meanings most strange and various, fit to shock Pupils of Newton.... The phrases of last century in this Linger to play tricks- Vis viva and Vis Mortua and Vis Acceleratrix:- Those long-nebbed words that to our text books still Cling by their titles, And from them creep, as entozoa will, Into our vitals. But see! Tait writes in lucid symbols clear One small equation; And Force becomes of Energy a mere Space-variation.

  James Clerk Maxwell

  Block, Writing, Science

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• Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

  Lord Byron

  Regulation, Fit, Geometry

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• I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see it in you.

  Jodi Hills

  Romantic, Dream, Today

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• Ordinary people don't know how much books can mean to someone who's cooped up.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Mean, People

  Anne Frank (2016). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.60, Hamilton Books

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• Certainly with a book, people are going to be able to read it and give themselves permission to have that delicious feeling of being terrified because they're in a safe place while they're reading. That's what you can rely on as a writer, that people can let themselves be really frightened because they're really all right. Being frightened when you're not sure you're all right is a big difference.

  Susan Hill

  Reading, Differences, People

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• I had many wonderful experiences, received beautiful letters, and my Christian books received substantive and thoughtful reviews. But there was always argument, dispute, questions as to what I "really" believed, lectures from here and there on "the real truth," etc.

  Anne Rice

  Beautiful, Christian, Real

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• A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Agents, Salesman

  "The Exchange: John Hodgman". Interview with Thessaly La Force, www.newyorker.com. November 11, 2008.

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• My hope when I wrote the first book was that I would get to do it again. But it was not entirely clear that that would happen.

  John Hodgman

  Firsts, Clear, Happens

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• By the time I was writing the second book, my life had changed rather dramatically, thanks to the intervention of television, and I needed to find a way to discuss that. Otherwise the big, fake book would not be true on some level.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Fake, Television

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• I think that by the time I start writing the third book, of course, I will be President Of The United States, and that also will have something to do with it. I'll probably have to acknowledge that somehow.

  John Hodgman

  Writing, Thinking, President

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• Anyone of conscience could come look at my book and see it as an esoteric oddity or be intrigued by it. It could happen either way on a thousand different little decisions each individual might make.

  John Hodgman

  Oddities, Decision, Different

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. October 21, 2008.

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• A film, since it is primarily a visual medium, should really be like a silent film. You should be able to watch something and understand what was going on and use voice when you need to communicate something you can't necessarily communicate visually. The book is the opposite. The book is an inner monologue which is beautiful.

  Tom Ford

  Beautiful, Silent Films, Opposites

  "Director Tom Ford Interview A SINGLE MAN". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 7, 2009.

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