Book Quotes
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
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In my downtime, you'll mostly find me curled up with a book. I love reading biographies. My favourites are those of Dalai Lama, Osama Bin Laden, and Einstein.
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I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child.
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The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live.
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Something about the possession of a book - an object that can contain infinite fables, words of wisdom, chronicles of times gone by, humorous anecdotes and divine revelation - endows the reader with the power of creating a story, and the listener with a sense of being present at the moment of creation.
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We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
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'What is your favorite book?'
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I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
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Abbot Terrasson tells us that if the size of a book were measured not by the number of its pages but by the time required to understand it, then we could say about many books that they would be much shorter were they not so short.
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.
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Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.
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Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.
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My mom is a self-taught home cook, so books that offer guidelines on how to organize menus are critical to 'cook from the book' people like her.
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Software is becoming no different than a videotape or a record album or a paperback book, and not all of us are ready for that change.
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is a completely different way of storytelling, and it has limitations.
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What kind of life can you have in a house without books?
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Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.
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There's a difference between knowing what's on the page in a history book and actually feeling that page have curves and valleys.
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His eyes measured the little chamber. How two people could survive in so small a space was as difficult to grasp as the conventions in contract bridge. Perhaps there was some simple key that would solve the problem, and he would have the subject of another book.
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Their things works of Die Brücke-artists must be exhibited. But I think it is incorrect to immortalize them in the document Almanac of our modern art (and, this is what our book ought to be) or as a more or less decisive, leading factor. At any rate I am against large reproductions of Die Brücke paintings in The Blaue Reiter Almanac.
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Usually it takes me about nine to 12 months to write a book.
