Book Quotes by Jesse Ball

Jesse Ball

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

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Boys

Ideas

Jesse Ball

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

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Sticks

Would Be

Jesse Ball

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

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Ideas

Jobs

Jesse Ball

Clarity is the most important thing to me – in thinking – and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

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Important

Thinking

Jesse Ball

I believe my friends think I’m funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

Believe

Book

Thinking

Jesse Ball

I don’t read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

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Desperation

Pleasure

Jesse Ball

I don’t think anything needs to happen in a book.

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Needs

Thinking

Jesse Ball

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have – that’s mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

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Luck

Might

Jesse Ball

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

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Pages

Type

Jesse Ball

I’m confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

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Confused

Helping

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Boys

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Desperation

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Doe

Done

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Events

False Hope

Firsts

Flesh

Heart

Helping

Humans

Ideas

Ifs

Important

Intellectual

Jobs

Knows

Long

Luck

Men

Might

Mind

Moving

Needs

Pages

Pairs

Past

Personality

Persons

Pleasure

Pleasure Seeking

Points In Life

Protest

Punishment

Purpose

Reason

Saws

Self

Simple

Sticks

Structure

Sunday

Supposing

Thinking

Three

Tire

True You

Trying

Turns

Type

Used To Be

Voice

Want

Water

Way

Whole

Window

Wine

Wish

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Writing

Book Quotes by Jesse Ball

A beginning idea for a book might be: a boy emerges from a hole in the ground. He enters a house. The book will take place in the first ten minutes following his arrival.

A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the plight of the stick, well, you can imagine what that would be like.

As far as ideas about book design: I have plenty. But I also try and let people do their jobs.

Clarity is the most important thing to me – in thinking – and so I try in the books to be as clear as possible.

I believe my friends think I’m funny. All the books are full of humor. Maybe it is a quiet sort of humor that masquerades as not-much-at-all. It is certainly easy to miss.

I don’t read books for pleasure, but in desperation.

I don’t think anything needs to happen in a book.

I have a very basic notion of the structure the book might have – that’s mostly it. The rest is luck and happenstance.

I like small books. I like durable books. I like plain books. I like small type and thin pages.

I’m confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

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