Books Quotes - Page 19

Digital distribution has widened the reading world.

What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled by printing and binding and shipping, renewed and available whenever we open it.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

I don't believe in writer's block. Who can function working seven days a week at at job. It's the same with writing. Take a break and let the words come to you. It rarely comes if you force it and if it does, you'll probably regret what you wrote down on paper.

Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!

The attraction of reading is that it allows you to live, for a few hours, as someone else - grants you access to their head, their thoughts, their secrets.

The best thing about being a writer is that 'work' is always something you love, plus usually accompanied by tea, coffee and cakes of some sort.

If you're going to fall in love with anyone, fall in love with a writer. Allow yourself to become immortalised in words.

Writers are not just writers, they are creators of worlds, sculptors of the mind, they are architects of language.

What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?

This is the strange life of books that you enter along as a writer, mapping an unknown territory that arises as you travel. If you succeed in the voyage, others enter after, one at a time, also alone, but in communion with your imagination, traversing your route. Books are solitudes where we meet.

If a book can save - redeem us from the mediocrity of the mundane - surely, there must be a God.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

To put an arrogant 'famous' writer in his place: pretend to be illiterate.

12% of employees study further to learn more. 88% of employees study further to earn more.

Life is a book that someone else is reading - and you, a key character - hence
the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't have any boring books.

I "love" reading.
It makes me feel like I am swallowing up Christ, Homer, Confucius, Newton, Franklin, Socrates, Caesar, and the whole world into one gigantic invincible Sir Moffat. Mine is creative reading. I read building empires in mind.

I pray I won't read and read and forget to marry.

There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.

First, you need to realize everything you thought you knew about yourself, about me, is a lie.

A story just isn't a story without a dragon.