Ethan Canin Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.
Malin Akerman -
You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
Yami Gautam -
No one today knows what is indecent.
Jack Valenti -
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
Samantha Shannon -
My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
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May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel -
I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell -
I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
Dan Brown -
It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I collect books - a lot of books.
Kate Spade -
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
Oscar Wilde
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There's something really incredible about watching what someone else does with a role that we know: the Hamlets or the Henry Vs or the Othellos or the Cleopatras that we've seen on stage.
Kevin Spacey -
I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
Yunus Emre -
I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
Carl Reiner -
You know, there's a right and wrong way to do everything.
Oliver Hardy -
Why leave the nut you got for one you don't know?
Loretta Lynn -
Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
Oscar Wilde
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I know there are no errors, In the great Eternal plan.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
Beryl Markham -
While growing up in Birmingham around a lot of West Indian people, reggae and calypso were big influences early on but Otis Redding was the one person who made me wanna sing myself.
Roland Gift Fine Young Cannibals -
I just think if you play it, it seeps in, it seeps into the performances, it seeps into the atmosphere of the movie. And a lot of times I used the music ... while they were doing the scene.
Cameron Crowe -
No one knows why books do well.
Ethan Canin