Book Quotes
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My life is an open book. You're welcome to speculate.
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You're too busy writing the next book to worry about Googling yourself all the time.
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Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier.
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It's a woman's book but I think the men will read it too.
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No one ever had a better father than I did. Father was a disciplinarian, and Mother was a very loving woman who taught us out of the scriptures. The Book of Mormon was her favorite.
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I know publishing now more as an author than with occasional peaks inside those elite offices than as an industry insider. It was difficult publishing a novel the first time around, while working behind the scenes, knowing all that has to happen to make a book a success and to still make the leap as an author.
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My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
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This book full of linoleum prints will be an alphabet of pictorial elements without text, which shall aim at establishing a larger scale of painting, a closer contact between the artist and the wall, and a new spirit of art accompanying architecture.
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Ooh, look at me, I’m Dave, I’m writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!
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I have a new book coming out, so I do movie, book, movie, book, movie, book, every place we go.
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I think, as a writer, you spend most of your time working on the book alone.
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I knew that a zombie book would not particularly appeal to some of my previous readers, but it was artistically compelling, and being able to do a short nonfiction book about poker was really fun and great.
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I want to keep continuously going through all the pages in the book of being an actor.
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Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started.
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If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.
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I am simple and an open book. I don't like ambitious and materialistic people.
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The grave's a fine and quiet place but none I think do finish their books from there.
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When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren't very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.
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For the longest time, I was auditioning, getting called back, and I had a long string of things not going my way. I thought, 'Maybe this is never going happen. Maybe I'll never book a commercial.'
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Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites.
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A funny thing about near-future stories: the future catches up to them. If the author is unlucky, the future catches up faster than the book can get out the door.
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I think the effective use of quotation is an important point in the art of writing. Given sparingly, quotations serve admirably as a climax or as a corroboration, but when they are long and frequent, they seriously weaken the effect of a book. We lose sight of the writer - he scatters our sympathy among others than himself - and the ideas which he himself advances are not knit together with our impression of his personality.
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I don't have an interest in any car that isn't good for the environment, other than maybe an aesthetic quality in a picture book.
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I wanted to write a book about poverty that wasn't only about the poor. I was looking for some sort of narrative device, a phenomenon that would allow me to draw in a lot of different players. I was like, 'Shoot, eviction does that.'
