E Books Quotes
These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be.
Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.
I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
I tried to get into comics initially after I graduated Clemson in 1994. I spent a year trying to get in, and I quit reading books because not getting in made me sad.
You may be surprised to know that growing up, I wanted to be a writer of children's books.
Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream.
I'm obsessed with TV. How wrong our parents were when they said we should only watch an hour a day. Stop wasting your time reading books.
It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print
Keep reading books, stay in school. I encourage kids to read as much as they can, I challenge you to read a book every two weeks, like I try to.
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books.
I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?
I've loved science fiction ever since I was a little kid, mainly from looking at the covers of science-fiction magazines and books, and I've read quite extensively as an adult.
It struck me that when we read picture books to children, we parents, and people as a whole, do not appear in them very much, and that they are more constructed to be a world of children and animals.
It's funny, when you look back in history books or American cookery books, one of the reasons that the quinces and cranberries are used so often is because of their natural jelling properties.
I want to keep publishing books, and writing and spreading my heartsong through the world.
There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.
It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world would occasionally swap history books, just to see what other people are doing with the same set of facts.
I read a lot of research notes about the countries I visit, and my mum and dad bought me a Kindle, but I'm still getting to grips with it. I prefer paper books.
Deciding what to read is also a matter of filtering.
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.
Reading is my passion and my escape since I was 5 years old. Overall, children don't realize the magic that can live inside their own heads. Better even then any movie.
An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when you opened the cover. Because only books have that power.