Best two & book Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form relationships. Other books stand in opposition. No two writers or readers have the same pattern of interaction.”

Thinking Mind Two Book Form Reader Patterns Opposition Interaction

Author:Margaret Mahy

“I'm not the best actor I can be, so I'm just working on it. I'm not the quickest reader in the world but when I get an acting book I can read it in two days.”

World I Can Two Book Actors Acting Reader Two Days I Can Read

Author:Evan Peters

“Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."”

Two Book Science Reading Reading Books Book Reading Cambridge

Author:Luis Walter Alvarez

“If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.”

Ifs Two Book Character Film Hours Pages Scripts

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.”

Years Two Book Block Writer's Block

Author:James Rollins

“When I was writing my first two books I was also freelancing and teaching and doing other odd jobs.”

Writing Firsts Two Book Jobs Teaching Odd Odd Jobs

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“Well, I am becoming doddering and old but I have - I'm writing two books a year now. It's like 220,000 words or something like finished, and, honest to God, I can't do that. I really do need the help of, you know, other people working with me.”

People Knows Needs Writing Years Wells I Can Two Book Helping Honest Becoming Finished

Author:John Sandford

“But once an original book has been written - and no more than one or two appear in a century - men of letters imitate it, in other words, they copy it so that hundreds of thousands of books are published on exactly the same theme, with slightly different titles and modified phraseology. This should be able to be achieved by apes, who are essentially imitators, provided, of course, that they are able to make use of language.”

Men Should Writing Has Beens Two Book Different Use Able Courses Language Written Century Letters Originals Titles Theme Copies Apes Imitator Use Of Language

Book:Planet of the Apes

Source: Planet of the Apes

“It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.”

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Author:Isaac Marion

“My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.”

Needs Two Book Stories Bigs Fantasy Advice Series Plot Trilogies Aspiring Writers

Author:Juliet Marillier

“I like to read first thing in the morning. I'm addicted to the Kindle. I read a lot of business books, because I feel like I should figure out how to be a real businessman before someone figures out that I'm not one. I really enjoy reading classics as well, which I try to work in once every two months.”

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Author:Matt Mullenweg

“Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.”

Way Writing Two Book Together Process Mark Gaps Without You Two Ways

Author:Samuel West

“Almost 30 years before Rwanda, before Darfur, more than 2 million people - mothers, children, babies, civilians - lost their lives as a result of the blatantly callous and unnecessary policies enacted by the leaders of the federal government of Nigeria. It's this charge that's dominated the book's Nigerian press, so far as I can see, the accusation, on the one hand, that Awolowo hatched "a diabolical policy to reduce the numbers of his enemies significantly through starvation - eliminating over two million people, mainly members of future generations.”

“It’s being ready to accept rejection. You can work on a book for two years and get it published, and it’s like you may as well have thrown it down a well. It’s not all champagne and doing interviews with The New York Times.”

Years Wells May Two Book Accepting New York Ready Like You Rejection Interviews Thrown Two Years New York Times Champagne

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them. There were books in the study, books in the drawing room, books in the cloakroom, books (two deep) in the great bookcase on the landing, books in a bedroom, books piled as high as my shoulder in the cistern attic...In the seemingly endless rainy afternoons I took volume after volume from the shelves. I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.”

“I think my mother was like a small company which, because things are not ship-shape, keeps two sets of books, one for the auditors and then there's the other one.”

Thinking Two Book Mother Company Shapes Ships Auditors

Book:Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

Source: Luck and Circumstance: A Coming of Age in Hollywood, New York, and Points Beyond

“My sister played the piano. She’s two years older than me, and I always wanted to play something. So my grandmother got the guitar for me, and showed me a couple of chords to start off. And then I got me a book. Next thing you know, I was playing along with sister.”

Knows Years Two Book Play Wanted Next Couple Guitar Piano Grandmother Two Years My Sister My Grandmother Chords

Author:Willie Nelson

“I had two projects that fell apart during preproduction. The first one was this movie that Judd Apatow and I had written about two guys following the Rolling Stones. It was going to be half concert film, half pseudo-documentary. It was Mick Jagger's idea.The other one was Simple Plan, based on a novel by Scott Smith. It's a great book - really stark, not a comedy - about a guy who finds $4 million in a plane crash and decides to keep it.”

“You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.”

People Ifs Knows Persons Two Book Divine Balance Two Things Teamwork Associates

Author:Earl Nightingale

“A book may lie dormant for fifty years or for two thousand years in a forgotten corner of a library, only to reveal, upon being opened, the marvels or the abysses that it contains, or the line that seems to have been written for me alone. In this respect the writer is not different from any other human being: whatever we say or do can have far-reaching consequences.”

“There are two methods for the literary study of any book - the first being the study of its thought and emotion; the second only that of its workmanship. A student of literature should study some of the Bible from both points of view.”

Should Firsts Two Book Literature Views Emotion Study Students Method Point Of View Thoughts And Emotions Workmanship

Book:Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

Source: Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn

“Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.”

Two Book Enough Hate Sleep Laughing Worship Window Grants Peas Cringe Heating Peas In A Pod

Author:Elizabeth Hurley

“I suspect there are two kinds of novelists. Those who have a point of view and have something to say and then write a novel in order to say that thing, and those of us who write the book in order to find out what we think about that thing.”

Thinking Writing Kind Two Book Order Views Novel Point Of View Novelists Suspects

Author:Neil Gaiman

“You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.”

Should Trying Firsts Two Book Reason Reading Teach Hell Impossible Annoying Pigs Impossibility Books And Reading

Author:Will Rogers

“The Greek word euphuia, a finely tempered nature, gives exactly the notion of perfection as culture brings us to perceive it; a harmonious perfection, a perfection in which the characters of beauty and intelligence are both present, which unites "the two noblest of things" - as Swift most happily calls them in his Battle of the Books, "the two noblest of things, sweetness and light."”

Giving Two Book Character Light Culture Battle Perfection Notion Perceive Greek Sweetness Harmonious

Author:Matthew Arnold

“When a book is just a plot, you know, two men fight for the love of a woman in a wild frontier, I immediately ask, 'Why?'”

Knows Men Two Book Fighting Asks Plot Frontiers

Author:Nicolas Roeg

“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.”

“How I Shed My Skin is, simply put, a brilliant book. While I was reading, I kept thinking two things. One, this is totally shocking. Two, it's not at all shocking, but a familiar part of my life and memory. Grimsley's narrative is straightforward and plain-spoken while at the same time achingly moving and intimately honest, and it does more to explain the South than anything I've read in a long, long time.”

Thinking Long Doe Two Book Moving Reading Memories Honest Long Time Skins South Brilliant Familiar Narrative Two Things Shed Shocking Straightforward

Author:Josephine Humphreys

“A lot of my books have been that way. My World War II thriller about Sarin gas [Black Cross] was published two months before the Sarin attack in the Japanese subway. There are very weird coincidences out there. And I do have one surefire plot I have not and probably never will write, because of my fear someone will carry it out.”

World Way Writing Has Beens Two Book War Black Months Crosses War Of The Worlds Gas Plot World War Ii World War I Coincidence Thrillers Subway Two Months

Author:Greg Iles

“When I'm writing for a book, it's much more reflective process. I have certain things that may not translate well to the stage, but, when they're on the page, people can really get into them. My first two books were aiming to be funnier, but the third was more about deep exploration. Things about being a parent and growing older that I thought would be perfect for a book.”

People Writing Firsts Wells May Two Book Would Be Certain Process Parent Perfect Growing Stage Pages Thirds Exploration Translate Growing Old Being A Parent Growing Older

Author:Paul Reiser

“Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts the book of their deeds, the book of their words, and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others; but of the three, the only quite trustworthy one is the last. The acts of a nation may be triumphant by its good fortune; and its words mighty by the genius of a few of its children: but its art, only by the general gifts and common sympathies of the race.”

Writing May Children Art Two Book Lasts Three Nations Common Race Genius Understood Fortune Deeds Autobiography Good Fortune Trustworthy Manuscripts Triumphant Great Nations

Author:John Ruskin

“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one person alone with a book.”

People Humans Persons Two Book Human Nature Conversation Lovely Oddities

Book:Rules of Civility: A Novel

Source: Rules of Civility: A Novel

“We can already say emphatically that there is no longer any solid basis for dating any book of the New Testament after about A.D. 80, two full generations before the date between 130 and 150 given by the more radical New Testament critics of today.”

Two Book Today Given Generations Dating Bases Critics Radical Testament New Testament

Author:William F. Albright

“Paymasters come in only two sizes: one sort shows you where the book says that you can't have what you've got coming to you; the second sort digs through the book until he finds a paragraph that lets you have what you need even if you don't rate it.”

Ifs Needs Two Book Shows Rate Size Paragraph

Book:The Door Into Summer

Source: The Door Into Summer

“O thou who art able to write a Book, which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name City-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name Conqueror or City-burner! Thou too art a Conqueror and Victor; but of the true sort, namely over the Devil: thou too hast built what will outlast all marble and metal, and be a wonder-bringing City of the Mind, a Temple and Seminary and Prophetic Mount, whereto all kindreds of the Earth will pilgrim.”

Source: Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books

“Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.”

“Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.”

Two Book Dream Destiny Two Things Accounting

Author:Fernando Pessoa

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“There are only two kinds of books which you can write and be pretty sure you're going to make a living cook books and detective stories.”

Writing Kind Two Book Stories Cooks Detectives Detective Stories

Author:Rex Stout

“I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I write the book.”

Men Giving Writing Looks Two Book Three Longing Everyday Missions

Author:Elvis Costello

“Whoever thinks algebra is a trick in obtaining unknowns has thought it in vain. No attention should be paid to the fact that algebra and geometry are different in appearance. Algebras (jabbre and maqabeleh) are geometric facts which are proved by propositions five and six of Book two of Elements.”

Thinking Should Two Book Different Facts Attention Five Elements Six Paid Appearance Tricks Vain Propositions Geometry Algebra Obtaining Geometric

Author:Omar Khayyam

“My dream scenario would be that you could go into a bookshop, examine copies of every book in print that they're able to offer, then for a fee have them produce in a minute or two a beautiful finished copy in a dust jacket that you would pay for and take home.”

Two Book Home Dream Would Be Able Beautiful Pay Minutes Produce Offers Finished Dust Copies Print Jackets Scenarios Fees Bookshops

Author:William Gibson

“In this one book are the two most interesting personalities in the whole world--God and yourself. The Bible is the story of God and man, a love story in which you and I must write our own ending, our unfinished autobiography of the creature and the Creator.”

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Author:Fulton Oursler

“A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.”

Years Two Book Different Novel Reader Good Book Different Place

Author:Alan Lightman

“I only can write a book every two years, you know. And I write very fast, but I'm not always writing every day. I needed a contact with different things, like nature, for example. I cannot be in front of a computer trying to tell a story.”

Knows Writing Trying Years Two Book Different Stories Fronts Example Needed Computer Contact Different Things Two Years Writing Every Day

Author:Paulo Coelho

“The point of page one is to make people turn to page two and if at the end of the book people think that the book was good value for money, you have achieved something, because if you haven't achieved those things you're not going to achieve the other thing.”

People Ifs Thinking Two Book Ends Values Turns Achieve Havens Pages Good Values

Author:Terry Pratchett

“There's that lovely thing for the first month or two of writing a new book: OK, I don't know what that character's going to do, but we'll find out later. After about three or four months you come to that bit where you've got to put some plot in before it's too late, and you have to go back and start inserting plot, and, ooh, I've left out the literature, OK, lets put some in.”

Knows Writing Firsts Two Book Character Three Literature Left Bits Four Months Late Lovely Too Late Plot Left Out New Books Lovely Things Before It's Too Late

Author:Terry Pratchett

“If you want to write, do two things - read lots of books and also, in your own writing, practise. Just write and write and then write again. persist. And never be put off or discouraged. You can do it!”

Ifs Want Writing Two Book Can Do Two Things Persist You Can Do It Discouraged Practise

Author:Alexander McCall Smith

“The success [of the X-Men], I think, is for two reasons. The first is that, creatively, the book was close to perfect ... but the other reason is that it was a book about being different in a culture where, for the first time in the West, being different wasn't just accepted, but was also fashionable. I don't think it's a coincidence that gay rights, black rights, the empowerment of women and political correctness all happened over those twenty years and a book about outsiders trying to be accepted was almost the poster-boy for this era in American culture.”

“There was this book I read and loved, The story of a ship Who sailed around the world and found That nothing else exists Beyond its own two sails And wooden shell And what is held within. All else is sure to pass. We clutch and grasp And debate what's truly permanent.”

World Two Book Stories Found Debate Ships Around The World Permanent Shells Sail Clutch

Author:Conor Oberst

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