“You won't see me writing about particle physics, or even planetary geology, or chemistry. I practically failed chemistry, and if I had to write a book in any of those areas, I don't think it would go well.” IfsThinkingWritingWellsBookAreasPhysicsChemistryParticlesGeologyParticle Physics Author:Mary Roach
“Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don't. I'm not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.” PersonsI CanBookWishCan DoAreasOrganized Author:Elizabeth Strout
“I've been quoting the book [on Peter Sutcliffe] constantly in rehearsals. Some members of the cast have stated their disapproval that it should even have been written. Some of the women have expressed more - disgust and anger. What are they saying? They'd prefer not to know, not to understand? They'd prefer certain areas of life to be censored? Isn't that partly what breeds the Sutcliffes and the Nilsens?” KnowsShouldHas BeensBookCertainWrittenMembersAreasCastsPeterDisgustingRehearsalDisapprovalQuotingCensored Author:Antony Sher
“If you look back at history, [Dale ] Carnegie highlighted the need for libraries to be a place where everyone could go to read if you didn't have access to books. Philanthropy can be a place that'll take a risk or point to areas to make sure they are the right government investments to reduce inequalities.” IfsNeedsLooksBookGovernmentRiskAreasInvestmentLibraryAccessInequalityPhilanthropyCarnegie Author:Melinda Gates
“The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have enough of a front yard area to house a Nativity scenes. And we finally found it .. two miles from our office. And we had been all over Tulsa looking. We were looking in places in Texas, everywhere! And I was in the car with the director and we drove by the church.” MeanTwoBookEnoughPlayFoundHouseChurchCarFrontsSceneDirectorsOfficeAreasMilesTexasYardsPivotalBooks And MoviesNativityTulsa Author:Luka Magnotta
“When I'm writing a book, generally I start with the mood and setting, along with a couple of specific imagesthings that have come into my head, totally abstracted from any narrative, that I've fixated on. After that, I construct a world, or an area, into which that general setting, that atmosphere, and the specific images I've focused on can fit.” WorldWritingBookCoupleFitAreasFocusedMoodSettingSettingsNarrativeAtmosphereConstructsWriting A Book Author:China Mieville
“Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected by historians - childhood history, content analysis of historical imagery, and so on - suddenly expand from the periphery to the center of the psychohistorian's conceptual world, simply because his or her own new questions require material nowhere to be found in history books.” WorldLittlesHas BeensBookWholeValuesFoundWrittenChildhoodMaterialsAreasHistoricalAnalysisHistorianImageryNeglectedChunksHistory BooksPeripheryWritten History Author:Lloyd deMause
“As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap. Are there mathematical proofs of God? Who are the great mathematicians who believed in a deity? Does numerology lead anywhere when applied to sacred literature? Pickover covers these and many other off-trail topics with his usual verve, humor, and clarity. And along the way the reader will learn a great deal of serious mathematics.” KnowsWayWritingFirstsDoeBookLiteratureDealsSeriousReaderAreasMathematicsSacredMathProofTheologyClarityMathematicalUsualMathematicianTopicsTrailsDeitiesProof Of GodMathematical ProofNumerology Author:Martin Gardner
“I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.” LooksBookEnoughBodyLightEyePainFacesLanguageWillingBedAreasDullHospitalsHer EyesGlancesDonors Author:Kazuo Ishiguro
“My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my novels are females.” BookCharacterFeelingsEmotionNovelStrangeAreasFemaleExpertsMain CharactersEmotions Feelings Author:Isabel Allende
“How ignorant we are! How ignorant everyone is! We can cut across only a small area of the appallingly expanding fields of knowledge. No human being can know more than a tiny fraction of the whole. It must have been satisfactory in ancient times when one's own land seemed to be the universe; when research studies, pamphlets, books did not issue in endless flow; when laboratories and scientists were not so rapidly pushing back frontiers of knowledge that the process of unlearning the old left you gasping for breath.” KnowsHumansHas BeensBookWholeUniverseLeftProcessHuman BeingsKnowledgeStudyIssuesCuttingLandFieldsResearchAreasFlowScientistBreathsAncientTinyEndlessIgnorantPushingExpandingFrontiersLaboratoryFractionsAncient TimesPushing BackResearch Study Author:Mary Barnett Gilson
“I attempt to read one book every day. I don't always achieve that, especially when I'm traveling. But when I'm home, I read almost a book a day. I certainly read a minimum of two or three a week. And as a result of that, I've read over 3,000 books in areas that interest me, like consciousness and spirituality, holistic health, leadership, success, psychological awareness, therapy, etc.” TwoBookHomeSpiritualityThreeInterestResultsConsciousnessWeekAchieveAwarenessAreasPsychologicalTherapyEtcMinimumHolistic Author:Jack Canfield
“It is very unlikely that the computer will displace the books, except in areas where we need information speedily.” NeedsBookInformationComputerAreasUnlikely Author:Daniel J. Boorstin
“I've been reading and researching various aspects of history - Dickens' London, Nelson's sea battles, Magellan's nautical explorations, the weapons and battles and key figures of the American Civil War - for most of my life. I pick up a book here or there or see a documentary or talk with an expert in the subject, and my curiosity about the one area of study and discovery always leads to another.” BookWarReadingStudySeaSubjectsFiguresKeysBattleWeaponsPicksDiscoveryAreasAspectCuriosityVariousLondonExpertsCivil WarExplorationDocumentariesAmerican Civil WarNelsonDickensNauticalMagellan Author:Gary Paulsen
“To a great extent, I still write for myself, write what amuses me. Fortunately, I have a quirky sort of strange sense of humor that appeals to other people and that's good. I still sort of write for myself though there are some areas of the book I feel I have to put in and I feel I have to deliver.” PeopleFeelsWritingStillsBookStrangeAreasAppealsSense Of HumorQuirky Author:Jasper Fforde
“My father taught me to love detective fiction writers such as Raymond Chandler. When I decided to have a hard-boiled detective series I did a lot of studying before I wrote the first book. I learned police procedure, the California criminal law, and many areas outside my expertise.” FirstsBookHardLawFatherFictionStudyTaughtAreasDecidedPoliceSeriesCriminalsCaliforniaProceduresDetectivesExpertiseFiction WritersCriminal LawDetective Fiction Author:Sue Grafton
“There are some things that are more appropriate to a children's than an adult book but there's a huge overlapping area and most kids read an age group up anyway.” ChildrenBookKidsAgeGroupsHugeAdultsAreasAppropriateOverlapping Author:Terry Pratchett
“I would go to the beach in my turtle neck, all bundle up. I would read my book and kind of scowl, but I hadn't seen the most beautiful beaches in the world. We had a beach (in Canada) where you couldn't even go swimming. But once I travelled and saw more beautiful areas, my relationship to the planet expanded I started connect to it more and be more aware.” WorldKindBookBeautifulSawsPlanetsAreasBeachNecksCanadaSwimmingBundlesTurtlesBeautiful Beach Author:Rachel McAdams
“It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in that area, and written books more or less in that area, too.” ChildrenBookPhilosophyFatherWrittenAreasEasternPhilosophy And ReligionEastern Philosophy Author:Quentin S. Crisp
“In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.” TryingBookAreasHolesGreyMotorsportsGrey Areas Author:Danica Patrick
“Ads answered out of desperation in the New York Review of Books proved equally futile as…the 'Bay Area Bisexual' told me I didn't quite coincide with either of her desires.” BookDesireNew YorkAreasReviewsAdsDesperationBisexualBay Area Book:The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose Source: The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose
“A library is like an island in the middle of a vast sea of ignorance, particularly if the library is very tall and the surrounding area has been flooded.” IfsHas BeensBookSeaMiddleIgnoranceAreasLibraryIslandsTall Author:Daniel Handler
“What about books? Well, precisely because you have denied it in every other field, you believe you may still grant yourself legitimately this youthful pleasure of expectation in a carefully circumscribed area like the field of books, where you can be lucky or unlucky, but the risk of disappointment isn't serious.” BelieveWellsMayStillsBookPleasureRiskFieldsSeriousLuckyExpectationsAreasDisappointmentGrantsDeniedUnlucky Book:If On A Winter's Night A Traveller Source: If On A Winter's Night A Traveller
“Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they area dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.” IfsWorldWantBookDreamHouseInterestPositionDrugAreasDistanceCastsDefenseBridgesDimensionsOutside World Author:Italo Calvino
“Very little in science fiction can transcend the gimmickry of a technical conceit, yet without that conceit at its heart a book is not truly science fiction. Furthermore, so little emerging thought and technology is employed by sf writers today that the genre is lagging far behind reality both in the cosmology area and the technology area: sf is no longer a place to experiment, but is now very derivative.” HeartLittlesBookRealityTodayBehindsFictionTechnologyFantasyAreasScience FictionExperimentsGenreEmployedCreative WritingEmergingConceitCosmologyDerivativesGenre Is Author:Janet Morris