If you cannot judge a book by its cover, surely we should not judge an author by one book alone?
E.A. BucchianeriTags: reading books writers literary-criticism literature book criticism authors novels critics author judging covers i-love-books i-love-reading i-love-to-read book-cover book-covers fair-chance fair-judgement
There is no such thing as a bad book, I just like some books more than others…
Chris GeigerTags: reading books book reading-books
Motherhood doesn't have a nationality
Melinda CrossTags: life child book motherhood country nationality mom print harlequin
You need that pride in yourself, as well as a sense, when you are sitting on Page 297 of a book, that the book is going to be read, that somebody is going to care. You can't ever be sure about that, but you need the sense that it's important, that it's not typing; it's writing.
Roger KahnTags: writing write read book pride important somebody page-297 typing
We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the very best of what we are capable. I don't that we can consciously put the magic in; it doesn't work that way. When the magic comes, it's a gift.
Madeleine L'EngleTags: books writing writers write work book magic gift
Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writers. But let me tell you, they really don't want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. They don't want to go through the work of getting the damn book out. There is a huge difference.
James A. MichenerTags: writing writers difference write work selfish self goal book writer print
Losing your love hurts more than playing with fire.
Lucian MorfaTags: love romance book fire lilly-flame
So what do you think?’ He asked, holding up the book.
‘I think Salinger is a closet paedophile,’ I replied placidly and was surprised and comforted by this minuscule, acidic, bitter Sylvia Plath like mocking, sniping tone that had crept into my voice. ‘The main character Seymour is a fully grown man and a pervert who befriends young girls with his storytelling and swimming, just to get close enough to groom them in preparation for the inevitable sexual assault he lusts after. You might have noticed for example in A Perfect Day For Bananafish he grabs the young girls-’
‘Sybil.’
‘He grabs Sybil’s ankles while lying on the beach and again when he pushes her in the water,’ I continued. ‘He goes too far when he kisses the bottom of her foot which makes even a four-year-old yell out in fear, knowing a line had been crossed. Frustrated Seymour walks away and goes back to his hotel where he kills himself in shame.
Tags: book quote j-d-salinger sylvia-plath
Give up your thirst for books, so that you do not die a grouch.
Marcus AureliusTags: books book die thirst abstemiousness grouch
Somehow I could lose myself in the ocean the same way I could lose myself in a good book. Maybe it was because both involved suspension--a suspension of weight, a suspension of disbelief--a willingness to surrender to something greater than oneself.
Eve Marie MontTags: book
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