Book Quotes
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There's a book that I read, really a great book - it's called 'Lone Survivor' and I think they're trying to make it into a movie. I would love to play Marcus Luttrell, who was the author and the 'lone survivor.' He's a national hero; he's very courageous and heroic in insurmountable danger, so it's something I'd love to explore.
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A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children.
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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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From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
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'What is your favorite book?'
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I know a movie and a book are two different things and you are going do different media in different ways. No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.
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One of the marvelous blessings of the Book of Mormon is that it contains, in clarity, revelations reserved to come forth in this dispensation of time. Much of the knowledge that we have relating to the principle of moral agency is found in these modern revelations.
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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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I've been asked too many times to write a book by the fans.
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There is no Past, so long as Books shall live!
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Writers aren't in competition with one another. It isn't a zero sum game. If you have a good book, a good cover, a good product description, and a low price, you can sell well.
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When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home.
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Here's how adaptation works - almost everything in the movie is in the book in some form. But it's as though the deck has been completely reshuffled and some of the cards have been assigned different values, some of the fours have been made into jacks, and some of the jacks have been made into twos.
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Take time to enjoy the flight - read a good book, watch a film, catch up on emails and sleep.
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I recognize that I'm probably the luckiest novelist in recent memory, because Sherman Alexie, a writer I greatly admire, raved about my book on 'The Colbert Report,' and then Mr. Colbert himself urged his viewers to buy it - on his show and on Twitter.
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.
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I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else.
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I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint.
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Ever read a book that changed your life? Me neither.
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I've learned a lot of tricks from working with a lot of great producers over the years, and I think I should write a book about it!
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I'll read any anthologies or collection I can get my hands on. If I find a book mentioned in 'Publisher's Weekly,' and it looks like it will be dark, I'll track it down.
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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.
