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		If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.
	
	
	
		
			
				
					
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		Speaking of trust, ever since I wrote this book, 'Liespotting,' no one wants to meet me in person anymore - no, no, no, no, no. They say, 'It's okay. We'll email you.' I can't even get a coffee date at Starbucks. My husband's like, 'Honey, deception? Maybe you could have focused on cooking. How about French cooking?'
	
	  Pamela Meyer Pamela Meyer
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		I've made up little mantras for myself, catchphrases from a screenwriting book that doesn't exist. One is 'Write the movie you'd pay to go see.' Another is 'Never let a character tell me something that the camera can show me.'
	
	  Taylor Sheridan Taylor Sheridan
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		Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
	
	  Kate DiCamillo Kate DiCamillo
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		A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
	
	  W. H. Auden W. H. Auden
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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 Oscar Wilde
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		One half who graduate from college never read another book.
	
	  G. M. Trevelyan G. M. Trevelyan
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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 Gabrielle Zevin
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		I am an author, and like many in my profession, I am also a traveling salesman, going all over in an attempt to persuade people to spend twenty-five dollars on a hardcover book by me.
	
	  Ian Frazier Ian Frazier
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		It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.
	
	  J. A. Konrath J. A. Konrath
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		I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and I've written the screenplay, and I really feel pretty strong about it. It's really hauntingly beautiful. It's got some suspense and great drama, but it's a real character thing.
	
	  Ed Harris Ed Harris
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		Webster and I are very aloof. The two of us go and sit there by ourselves. I sit by myself in the corner with my book and the newspaper. He kind of runs around a little bit, and then he goes and sits on top of the picnic table. He never plays with other little dogs.
	
	  Calista Flockhart Calista Flockhart
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		I was a top-notch cartoon model for Hanna Barbera, and they made me into a cartoon series called 'Devlin,' which ran for seven years, and I was on lunch pails and coloring books and all of that. It's really interesting being a coloring book when you're young – most kids colored in coloring books, but I made money off coloring books.
	
	  Taylor Negron Taylor Negron
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		When I was in college, I used to write little ditties and short stories and poetry for my friends. Writing a book is another thing. It is so much different from my traditional day of dirty fingernails and greasy hair and hot pans.
	
	  Mario Batali Mario Batali
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		I profess to learn and to teach anatomy not from books but from dissections, not from the tenets of Philosophers but from the fabric of Nature.
	
	  William Harvey William Harvey
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		In the current climate, we live in a pessimistic and non-idealistic world.
	
	  Emilio Estevez Emilio Estevez
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		Only a geek would say this, but my first true love was a game called 'Wizardry'; that was the game that hooked me forever.
	
	  Curt Schilling Curt Schilling
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		Sometimes when you're writing a song, it's work, and you really have to make sure you're kind of pounding out every little piece of it. And then sometimes you write a song, and you turn around and you go, 'How did we do that?'
	
	  Matthew Ramsey
			
			
				Old Dominion Matthew Ramsey
			
			
				Old Dominion
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		If I weren't musical, then I would have just published a book, you know? But I'm lucky enough to play piano, and so I use piano to convert my poems.
	
	  Benjamin Clementine Benjamin Clementine