Book Quotes
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Because I write a book a year, I always want to do one other project every year that's stimulating in a different way. It means you can be working but not using up your prose juice, you know?
Denise Mina
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My book 'Ali Pasha' tells the true story of a young sailor Henry Friston, who, in the hell-fire of battle, forms an unusual friendship.
Michael Foreman
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At the time I was writing 'Weedflower,' my friend Naomi Hirahara was writing a book about Japanese-American flower farmers. She knew quite a few elderly farmers and put me in touch with four or five of them who had been in camps during WWII. Some, like my father, were reluctant to talk about their experiences.
Cynthia Kadohata
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What's my favourite book? It changes all the time.
Kevin Spacey
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As a state legislator, I had worked with Republicans and Democrats to pass a number of bills, including some related to higher education and juvenile justice; I'd created what would become San Antonio's largest book drive and literacy campaign.
Joaquin Castro
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I'll read a book every now and then, but unlike most of my friends I don't always have one on the go.
Jonathan Pryce
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I actually feel, when I get to about page 200, that it's going to be a book after all! It never gets easier - when you conquer one problem, another one rises up to take its place.
Marcia Muller
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I've always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book.
Adrian Tomine
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The story grew, got way bigger than the contest rules called for, and next thing I knew I had a book.
Leslie Banks
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With stand-up, I can have an idea, go down the street to a comedy club and work on it, flesh it out, book a venue, people will come, then film it. I do all that myself; I never have to answer to anybody.
Aziz Ansari
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A book is a machine to think with.
I. A. Richards
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In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.
Claire Bloom
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Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out.
Jodi Picoult
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I set out to write an anti-parenting parenting book.
Bruce Feiler
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As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to photograph - it's an endless subject.
Annie Leibovitz
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A book may only be judged for what it is, not what you'd like it to be.
Caitlín Rebekah Kiernan
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When I receive a new novel from a hopeful publisher - "hoping that I like the book as much as he does" - I check first of all how much dialog there is, and if it looks too abundant or too sustained, I shut the book with a bang.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.
William J. Brennan, Jr.
