Beyonders Book Quotes

#1. At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be. #Quote by Christopher Hitchens

#2. We give scholarships to high school kids and a new library of books to every preschool child in the county where I was born. I didn't have books at home so I did all my reading at school. I love books and I believe that helping kids to read gives them a great start in life. #Quote by Dolly Parton

#3. She looked up at me with a small smile. That damn smile that now really had my breath caught in my throat. Bloody hell, this girl was going to be trouble. #Quote by Magan Vernon

#4. The Necrotelicomnicon was written by a Klatchian necromancer known to the world as Achmed the Mad, although he preferred to be called Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches. It is said that the book was written in one day after Achmed drank too much of the strange thick Klatchian coffee which doesn't just sober you up, but takes you through sobriety and out the other side, so that you glimpse the real universe beyond the clouds of warm self-delusion that sapient life usually generates around itself to stop it turning into a nutcake. Little is known about his life prior to this event, because the page headed 'About The Author' spontaneously combusted shortly after his death. However, a section headed 'Other Books By the Same Author' indicates that his previous published work was Achmed the I Just Get These Headaches's Book of Humorous Cat Stories, which might explain a lot. #Quote by Terry Pratchett

#5. Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to have the market cornered. She is the bestselling author in this genre. We had actually optioned another one of her Amish books, The Redemption of Sarah Cain. We retitled it Saving Sarah Cain and it did extremely well for Lifetime so we pursued more of her novels. #Quote by Michael Landon, Jr.

#6. The author of this book ciritcizes "the youth of today" from top to toe, without, however, condemning the whole of the young brigade as "incapable of anything good. #Quote by Anne Frank

#7. To a book collector, you see, the true freedom of all books is somewhere on his shelves. #Quote by Walter Benjamin

#8. There are numerous cases of that, where one of our writers discovers another writer whom he likes, and we then take that book on. So it's a very close relationship. We can do that because we're so small. #Quote by James Laughlin

#9. The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior. #Quote by Alfie Kohn

#10. People are always telling women to lose weight, and then when they do, other women attack them for it. #Quote by Candace Bushnell

#11. Tides of History provides a splendid prism through which we may view the wider world of Victorian science ... Historians of science will have cause to heap praise on this book, but so too will the non-specialists. The author's splendid writing style, at times appropriately Puckish, makes this work an accessible and enjoyable read. #Quote by William M. Fowler

#12. The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part. #Quote by Jeffery Deaver

#13. Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. #Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

#14. Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it. #Quote by Neale Donald Walsch

#15. The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen. #Quote by Eliza Griswold

#16. I have an ideas book at home with far more ideas than I will ever be able to write. #Quote by Jennifer Rowe

#17. Bookaholics are the ones who start to feel uncomfortable and uneasy in another person's house, and suddenly realize there are no bookshelves or magazines lying around. People who only own a telephone book and their high school yearbooks scare us. #Quote by Robert Lee Hadden

#18. Don't believe a teaching just because you've heard it from a man who's supposed to be holy, or because it's contained in a book supposed to be holy, or because all your friends and neighbors believe it. But whatever you've observed and analyzed for yourself and found to be reasonable and good, then accept that and put it into practice. #Quote by Gautama Buddha

#19. I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss. #Quote by Michael Cunningham

#20. It's called 'The Oxford Book of Modern Verse, 1892-1935'. They let a man named Yeats make the choosings. They shouldn't have. Who is he - and what does he know about verse?
I hunted through that book for poems by Wilfred Owen or Siegfried Sassoon. There weren't any - not one. And do you know why not? Because Mr Yeats said - he said, "I deliberately chose NOT to include any poems from World War I. I have a distaste for them. Passive suffering is not a theme for poetry. #Quote by Mary Ann Shaffer

#21. 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. #Quote by Earl Nightingale

#22. Same old boring boring story America can't stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to have a little, right? But why do you think all those runaways are on the streets tearing up their veins with junk and selling themselves so they can sleep in the gutter? What do you think the alternative was at home? #Quote by Francesca Lia Block

#23. Get stewed:Books are a load of crap. #Quote by Philip Larkin

#24. Whoever you be, O my reader-
friend, foe- I wish with you
to part at present as a pal.
Farewell. Whatever you in my wake
sought in these careless strophes-
tumultuous recollections,
relief from labors,
live pictures or bons mots,
or faults of grammar-
God grant that you,
in this book,
for recreation, for the daydream,
for the heart, for jousts in journals,
may find at least a crumb.
Upon which, let us part, farewell! #Quote by Alexander Pushkin

#25. 'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months. #Quote by John Curran

#26. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. #Quote by Henry Miller

#27. A book is like a single tree in a forest, in that it exists in conjunction with and because of a great many others around it. #Quote by David Suzuki

#28. If the novelist isn't surprised by where his book ends up, he or she probably hasn't written anything worth remembering. #Quote by Tom Robbins

#29. You can read books without ever stepping into a library; and practice spirituality without ever going to a temple. #Quote by Anthony De Mello

#30. Andrea Meyer: What do you think your films offer to people today?
Agnès Varda: I would say energy. I would say love for filming, intuition. I mean, a woman working with her intuition and trying to be intelligent. It's like a stream of feelings, intuition, and joy of discovering things. Finding beauty where it's maybe not. Seeing. And, on the other hand, trying to be structural, organized; trying to be clever. And doing what I believe is cinécriture, what I always call cine-writing. Which is not a screenplay. Which is not only the narration words. It's choosing the subject, choosing the place, the season, the crew, choosing the shots, the place, the lens, the light. Choosing your attitude towards people, towards actors. Then choosing the editing, the music. Choosing contemporary musicians. Choosing the tune of the mixing. Choosing the publicity material, the press book, the poster. You know, it's a handmade work of filmmaking - that I really believe. And I call that cine-writing. #Quote by Agnes Varda

#31. From an early age, I had the idea that writing was truth-telling. It's on the record. Everybody can see it. Maybe it goes back to the sacred origins of literature - the holy book. There's nothing holy about it for me, but it should be serious, and it should be totally transparent. #Quote by Edmund White

#32. But as I began to write this book, I realised that without the whole truth my life would have no power, no real meaning. With the help of my mother, the memories of our lives in North Korea and China cane back to me like scenes from a forgotten nightmare. Some of the images reappeared with a terrible clarity; others were hazy, or scrambled like a deck of cards spilled on the floor. The process of writing has been the process of remembering, and of trying to make sense out of those memories. #Quote by Yeonmi Park

#33. I wrote the book in my head when I was 6 years old. #Quote by Steven Cojocaru

#34. You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive. #Quote by James Baldwin

#35. I wanted to write a book that imagined where advances in the study of genetics might lead us. Holman was the first character who came to me: I envisaged the misshapen offspring of beautiful, wealthy parents. Then I realised that he bore a striking resemblance to Toulouse-Lautrec. I developed that, made Holman an alcoholic who lives among hookers, an artist tortured by his disability. #Quote by Jonathan Trigell

#36. I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations. #Quote by Jo Brand