Book Quotes
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
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The book industry is all about community, and it never really feels like anyone is competing against anyone, thankfully.
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I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic genius.
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If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher.
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When a book remembers, we remember. It reminds you that you have a body. So many of the things we may think of as burdensome are actually the things that make us more human.
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I can say pretty confidently that I am not the right guy to do a superhero movie, just because I was not a comic book kid. I don't know that mythology, and I don't have it ingrained in me in the way that a lot of these other directors do.
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I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
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One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.
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It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
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What I do in my book is let people know about these programs.
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I always thought the name of my first book would be 'The Insecure Chef,' because when I started cooking, I was so nervous.
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I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time. Who did they think they were?
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We like to keep the show small. Honestly, where we moved the show to the UCB theater, we moved it to a smaller space. Even though the show has technically gotten more popular. And that is, only because we like intimacy and the ability to experiment more. We don't want to be like, "We can get 250 people in a week. So let's do that. But we have to be careful about who we book..."
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It's a challenge to turn a book series into a television series; you need to keep people on their toes, but you also want to be true to the source material.
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One should never underestimate the power of books.
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You can learn more about human nature by reading the Bible than by living in New York.
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When one stops writing one becomes oneself again, the person one usually is, in terms of occupations, thoughts, language. Thus I am now me again, I am here, I go about my ordinary business, I have nothing to do with the book, or, to be exact, I entered it, but I can no longer enter it.
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The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?
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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...
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First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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In this beginner-friendly book, called 'Learn to Program with Minecraft,' you will learn how to do cool things in Minecraft using the Python programming language. No prior programming experience is needed.
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Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book.
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I was very interested in vaudeville. It was the only sort of discipline that was a five-minute act on stage, which is what I really enjoyed and saw myself doing. And I bought books on it.
