Ann M. Martin Quotes

Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and it was fabulous. I didn't want it to end.

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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.

  

  G-Eazy
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• I've planned book tours for myself, whether or not anybody wants to hear what I have to say. I've weighed in on things like what the cover looks like, what the copy looks like, how it's going to be promoted - just every aspect of it.

  

  Adam Mansbach
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• 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
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• 'Seize the Story' takes readers all the way through the process of writing fiction, from beginning to end. Every element, from dialogue to setting, plotting to character creation, is laid out and illustrated with examples. But the tone of the book is not that of a dry writing manual - it's definitely written for teenagers.

  

  Victoria Hanley
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• I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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• Butler's novel 'Kindred' may be the book most widely read by readers outside science fiction; it has been assigned as a text in classrooms and has sold steadily since its publication in 1979.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
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• I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

  

  Jackie Collins
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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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• I think Maus I is better than Maus II. The standard here is whether or not it's as good as a great book of prose literature and by that standard, no, it's not that great.

  

  Ted Rall
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• Then is when I decided to take it to Archie to see if they could do it as a comic book. I showed it to Richard Goldwater, and he showed it to his father, and a day or two later I got the OK to do it as a comic book.

  

  Dan DeCarlo
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• I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the universe than you can see with your eyes.

  

  Adam Lambert
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• The most important thing about Spaceship Earth - an instruction book didn't come with it.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
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• The writers who inspire me most are all women: Enid Blyton, Agatha Christie, Margaret Mitchell and Emily and Charlotte Bronte. As for contemporary novels, one of my favourites is 'Everyone Brave is Forgiven' by Chris Cleave. It's the sort of book to read if you've fallen out of love with reading - it reminds you just how brilliant novels can be.

  

  Talulah Riley
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• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• There's a difference between publicity and marketing. A lot of writers don't realize how much marketing goes on beyond the scenes, with sales reps and advanced reading copies, all that stuff that happens months before a book is published.

  

  Victoria Strauss
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• It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.

  

  Ed Harris
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• I had expected that at some point during the first draft a light would go on, and I would understand, finally, how to write a book. This never happened. The process was akin to blindly walking in the dark, feeling my way only by touch, and only recognising dead ends when I smacked into them.

  

  Hannah Kent
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• In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.

  

  Lady Gaga
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• No matter where I'm going, I always have sunglasses, a book, and some gum in my carry-on.

  

  Dylan Penn
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• It was my great problem to solve: how to write a book, you know. And after you write one, you have to write another to prove to yourself you can do it again.

  

  Philip Roth
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• No - I'm quite calm inside during the game for most of the time - not 100%, but generally very calm.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
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• One day I looked in the mirror, and I wasn't happy. If you're not feeling good mentally, emotionally and physically, you're just a mess - and that's the point I felt like. It was a change in attitude and a shift in lifestyle. There's no crazy diet; I train six days a week, and I eat really well.

  

  Ricki-Lee Coulter
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• Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

  

  Florida Scott-Maxwell
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• Every time I finish a book, it's my favorite. I have a lot of favorites. I did just finish Jane Eyre and it was fabulous. I didn't want it to end.

  

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