Terry Brooks Quotes

Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

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• My favorite book is 'Go Away Big Green Monster.' I wrote it for my granddaughter Adrian, who was in the third grade at the time.

  

  Ed Emberley
  • Time
  • Book
  • Green

• One half who graduate from college never read another book.

  

  G. M. Trevelyan
  • Book
  • College
  • Graduation

• I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • World
  • Business
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• I wrote my first novel in eighth grade for a boy named Kenny on whom I had an unrequited crush and who sat behind me in social studies.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Boy
  • Social
  • Novel

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
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• Everyone's clamoring for the fourth book in the 'Fifty Shades' trilogy, which makes me laugh. Just the part of 'a fourth book in trilogy' that makes me laugh, not the clamoring for the next book.

  

  E. L. James
  • Book
  • Me
  • Laugh

• I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Book
  • See
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• I can ask for a £25,000 advance, but then you spend a year writing the book, and £25,000 is a loan against sales, and you can easily spend five years earning out. So that's £25,000 for six years.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Writing
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  • Year

• Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Journey

• A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

  

  Edna St. Vincent Millay
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  • Book
  • Bad

• A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Work
  • Book
  • Myself

• I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Love
  • Novel
  • Thanked

• Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

  

  Galileo Galilei
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  • Universe
  • Language

• There is no longer any such thing as fiction or nonfiction; there's only narrative.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • Fiction
  • Only
  • Nonfiction

• I cannot outline. I do not know what the next thing is going to happen in the book until it comes out of my fingers.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Book
  • Know
  • Happen

• The problem is too often they are boring, and boring in a meeting happens for the same reason as in a book or movie - when there is not enough compelling tension. Meetings should be intense.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • Book
  • Movie
  • Problem

• I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• Housekeeping is incredibly difficult with three kids. I'm trying to be more relaxed. You'll go insane if you try to have a picture-book house.

  

  Patrick Dempsey
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Kids

• In their innocence, very young children know themselves to be light and love. If we will allow them, they can teach us to see ourselves the same way.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Children
  • Love
  • Way

• I scored one film by myself, which was the hardest thing I think I've ever done.

  

  Jenny Lewis
  • Done

• Like the seasons of the year, like history, truth also repeats itself. But we seldom recognize it when great poets or true artists - the prophets and the priests of our day - present it to us in garments spick and span, following the fashion of the age, the slant of its fancy, the turn and temper of its mind.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Great
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  • Truth

• And then I think we realized, like any young guys, that blues are not learned in a monastery. You've got to go out there and get your heart broke and then come back and then you can sing the blues.

  

  Keith Richards The Rolling Stones
  • Heart
  • Sing
  • Broke

• Basically the children who watch it just see the little characters they love, and so they're not discerning about whether it looks great or it's a great story or anything.

  

  Don Bluth
  • Great
  • Children

• Anyway, several rewrites later, Del Rey Books did publish my first novel, and it did become the first work of fiction on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Book
  • Fiction
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