Irving Stone Quotes
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Irving Stone
Quotes to Explore
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
T. E. Lawrence
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale
Bush
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley
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May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
Nathan Fillion
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I don't need nobody tryin' to make me over -- I just wanna live simple and free.
Christina Aguilera
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I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.
Winston Marshall
Mumford & Sons
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When people criticize me, instead of putting my head down, it gives me energy to do even more.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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I've done interviews in one day that went on for fifteen, sixteen hours. And at a certain point, the control over what they're saying breaks down; it becomes different. It becomes really powerful, and for me, real. It becomes out of control.
Errol Morris
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Irving Stone
