Paul Auster Quotes
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.
Paul Auster
Quotes to Explore
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
Kate DiCamillo
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
Edan Lepucki
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On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
Ramon Rodriguez
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Be original; don't be scared of being bold!
Ed Sheeran
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After 20 years, a million written words, and nine rejected novels, I finally landed a book contract.
J. A. Konrath
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I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and thought: 'I want to do that!' I always told stories and wrote them down, but I never thought writing was a career path, even though, clearly, someone was writing the books and newspapers and magazines.
Gayle Forman
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I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
Ian Frazier
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
Laura Hillenbrand
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
Walter Jon Williams
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I adore book-to-film adaptations when they're done well, and I'm more lenient than many readers when it comes to what counts as 'done well.' For me, the most important thing is that the film maintains the spirit of the original book.
Maggie Stiefvater
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I'm afraid of everything. But maybe when you're afraid of everything, it sort of seems like you're scared of nothing.
Natalie Portman
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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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My first book was an adult novel, 'Down Among the Gods,' published by Virago, and I've written poems as well, a slim volume of poetry.
Kate Thompson
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
Camilla Lackberg
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To me, the Quran is a research book.
Fatema Mernissi
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
Maimonides
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If real, regular, normal, boring life, when you're at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys... traveling feels to me like going to Toys R Us with your toy box and getting to trade stuff in and buy new things and explore whole new ideas.
Alex Day
Chameleon Circuit
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It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.
Sam Hunt
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What is the meaning of it, Watson? said Holmes solemnly as he laid down the paper. "What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable. But what end? There is the great standing perennial problem to which human reason is as far from an answer as ever.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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One day I will lie nowhere with an angel at my side.
Paul Klee
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I'm one of those people who doesn't understand how it was that I went to bed at 3 o'clock in the morning or what I was doing. Like, I looked at 'Bon Appetit' magazine for three hours for things I'm never going to cook. Or I'm just on Pinterest for no logical reason.
Lela Loren
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I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.
Paul Auster
