Felix Jaehn Quotes
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In the biographical novel, there's only one person involved. I, the author, spend two to five years becoming the main character. I do that so by the time you get to the bottom of Page 2 or 3, you forget your name, where you live, your profession and the year it is. You become the main character of the book. You live the book.
Irving Stone
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
Gabrielle Zevin
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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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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
Madeleine L'Engle
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Time dissolves in summer anyway: days are long, weekends longer. Hours get all thin and watery when you are lost in the book you'd never otherwise have time to read. Senses are sharper - something about the moist air and bright light and fruit in season - and so memories stir and startle.
Nancy Gibbs
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It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
E. L. Doctorow
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
Nancy Mitford
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
Carl Sandburg
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It’s the art-magazine ‘Circle’ been reprinted and it’s now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin’s wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, ‘Why shouldn’t we do a book?’ And so we started and now it’s a classic and referred to as such.
Barbara Hepworth
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It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Why then, if these books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the bible regain the place it once held as a school book ? Its morals are pure, its examples captivating and noble. The reverence for the sacred book, that is thus early impressed, lasts long; and, probably, if not impressed in infancy, never takes firm hold of the mind.
Fisher Ames
