Book Quotes
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I knew as far back as 2001 that I would write a book called 'A Visit From the Goon Squad,' though I had no idea what kind of book it would be.
Jennifer Egan
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I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.
Ellie Goulding
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Art is a gift: you create and then you give away. How readers receive that gift is their business. If they hate it, that’s their response to it. Others respond by liking it. Either way, that is their interaction with the book, which is no longer mine.
Yann Martel
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We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.
D. H. Lawrence
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I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work.
David Mitchell
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I worked in the book publishing business for nearly two decades before I turned my attention to writing, first with a couple ghostwriting projects, plus a crappy novel that absolutely no one wanted to publish. Then I moved to Luxembourg for my wife's job and found the inspiration for 'The Expats.'
Chris Pavone
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You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might start sliding around. Though I.d still prefer paperbacks to a pile of PDA.s.
William Gibson
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As far as exercising goes... watch for my next book, How I died while Jogging.
Drew Carey
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A dictionary is a reference book that lists the words of one or more languages, usually in alphabetical order, along with information about their spelling, pronunciation, grammatical status, meaning, history, and use.
David Crystal
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What adults don't always understand is that to a kid, a comic book is like a movie. My Marvel comics took my imagination to other places - other galaxies.
Angela Bowie
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I just wrote a book, but don't go out and buy it yet, because I don't think it's finished yet.
Lawrence Welk
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I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine... before she realizes she's reading.
Maya Angelou
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The biggest seller is cookbooks and the second is diet books - how not to eat what you've just learned how to cook.
Andy Rooney
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I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
Mary E. Pearson
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My wife and I, we work together. And we wrote this book, "Dad Is Fat." And in the book, I was encouraged constantly by my editor to be more personal and talk about more personal experiences.
Jim Gaffigan
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I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.
George R. R. Martin
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In general, a writer would like to think that the best book that he has written is the book that he is writing, and the next book will be even better. Maybe if this is not true, it is very useful to keep the illusion alive.
Mario Vargas Llosa
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For people like me, books are something solid and real, whereas digital stuff is a bit more ethereal. I like the trophy on my shelf, the presence in my home. A nice book is just as valuable as a decoration as a beautiful porcelain urn - and, let's face it, a hell of a lot more useful.
John Romaniello
