Eleanor Catton Quotes
Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.
Eleanor Catton
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Yes, there is a terrible moral in 'Dorian Gray' - a moral which the prurient will not be able to find in it, but it will be revealed to all whose minds are healthy. Is this an artistic error? I fear it is. It is the only error in the book.
Oscar Wilde
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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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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
G. M. Trevelyan
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
Daniel Clowes
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Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we got pulled into some big event book or crossover and it cost momentum and messed badly with the pacing and structure of the book.
J. Michael Straczynski
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
Walter Dean Myers
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One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
Rachel Field
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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
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And TV is not the easiest place to be dangerous or on the edge. Especially on a Saturday night.
Fisher Stevens
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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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Any character that can't be kept straight, to me, isn't a character who should be in the book – you know, anyone not vivid enough to have a claim on my attention.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
Karen Robards
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We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.
Tabatha Coffey
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
Nancy Gibbs
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For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things that I maybe only knew a little bit about before.
Tad Williams
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
Barry Schwartz
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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.
M. J. Rose
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With a novel, no matter where I am in it, I'm fretting about it. Every time I write a book, it starts with great forward momentum. Then there seems to be a period where it slows down a bit, and other things intervene. Then I gain momentum.
Douglas Kennedy
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Our first gig was a battle of the bands. We did 45 minutes of comedy and never played a note - and we won!
Cheech Marin
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I am protecting my personal life because for me, that's my sanctity. When I am done with shooting and home, that's my reality check.
Varun Dhawan
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When I was a kid, and God was talking to me about music, I was like, 'Okay, I'll sing mainstream music,' because I was afraid to sing Christian music to alienate my friends. Honestly, it was going on 'Idol,' having that kind of exposure, that I realized there's something different about me. I just crave God being a part of every moment.
Lauren Daigle
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The compromise will always be more expensive than either of the suggestions it is compromising.
Arthur Bloch
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Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.
Eleanor Catton
