William Stafford Quotes
When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
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I read the Steve Jobs book, and that kind of changed everything. I've been, like, an Apple geek my whole life and have always seen him as a hero. But reading the book, and learning about how he built the company, and maintaining that corporate culture and all that, I think that influenced me a lot.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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This whole tribal loyalty seems to have gone.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
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I don't read horror, ever. When I was 15, I made the mistake of reading part of 'The Exorcist.' It was the first and last horror book I've ever opened.
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It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
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Like many other women, I could not understand why every man who changed a diaper has felt impelled, in recent years, to write a book about it.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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We did a play of 'Frog and Toad' at my elementary school. And I'm not sure if this is part of the book or it was something that we made up on our own, but I auditioned to play the black hole, which somehow makes sense to me.
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A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
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I've always been obsessed with style and glamor and if I want anyone to get anything out of my book, it's how we can all have them in our lives.
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Once I was condemned to three months' absolute silence. As I could not speak, I wrote a book.
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A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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As far as advice, that will be in my next book, my next collection. I certainly never like to instruct anyone, but just say as I feel. That's the same as advice, isn't it?
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Asking me to choose between a traditional book and a Kindle is like asking me which of my dogs I love most.
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Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.
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If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
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I try not to apologize, especially publicly. That's a slippery slope, because I'm a comedian. If you take anything I'm saying too seriously, then you shouldn't be paying attention in the first place. If you find me offensive, don't follow me.
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When a goat likes a book, the whole book is gone, and the meaning has to go find an author again.
