Book Quotes
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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
Saint Augustine
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In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book...
Hattie McDaniel
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I don't have any delusions. I'm not a novelist - I'm a comedian who writes. I love doing the stand-up and the touring and the albums and all that, but it's pretty amazing to go into a library and see your book there.
Jim Gaffigan
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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
Danielle Steel
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He who writes this book in which hate is not hidden was formerly a pacifist...For him no disillusionment was ever greater or more sudden. It struck him with such violence that he thought himself no longer the same man. And yet, as it seems to him that in this state of hatred his conscience becomes diminished, he dedicates these pages, with emotion, to the man he used to be.
Emile Verhaeren
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'Joker' was a violent, dark, and brutal book, so I wanted to do something a little less heavy. I played around with the idea of a children's book, and that eventually became 'Noel.' And I just kept finding these parallels between things I could do with Batman and Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol.'
Lee Bermejo
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
Jasper Fforde
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Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it.
Denise Mina
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Before writing, I start with a series of questions, specific things I need to know before I can write the book... That list grows and changes as I do more and more research. But when I've answered the bulk of the questions, I begin to write.
David B. Coe
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I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
Tahereh Mafi
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I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.
Caroline B. Cooney
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'The Man in the High Castle' was not the first alternative history novel, nor even the first Nazis-win-the-war novel, but it is still probably the most influential book in the genre.
Adrian McKinty
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I get up in the morning. I usually do a radio interview early in the morning. I usually do a book signing, because I'm also a cookbook author, so I'm at some store, at a Walmart or a Williams Sonoma, for three hours, standing up, signing autographs, and taking pictures for three hours.
Trisha Yearwood
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I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers.
Lauren Hutton
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When I pick up a book that's, you know, wreathed in laurels, I expect a lot, and that doesn't give the book its best chance to shine.
Jennifer Egan
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Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go.
Galileo Galilei
