Book Quotes
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He leaned forward and opened his door, politely standing aside to let me by before following me in. There are some advantages to dating a guy from another era, I thought. Though I am a big believer in gender equality, chivalry scores high in my book.
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When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.
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I think that Hick was in love with Eleanor, and Eleanor was in love with Hick. I think it's very important to look at the letters that are in my book, because unlike some of the recent published letters, I have both the personal and the political. And their relationship is about ardor. It's about fun. And it's also about politics.
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A book doesn't have to be a literary classic, of course, to change us forever.
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I've just finished my 20th book this past year and I'm working on my 21st book about the Middle East right now that I'll finish this year. And I get up early in the morning and when I get tired of the computer and tired of doing research, I walk 20 steps out to my woodshop and I either build furniture or paint paintings. I'm an artist too.
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I think people are much more concerned about money now. There aren't the big advances of the past. You feel the sense of nervousness about the book industry. It's not like before. Not that I knew very much about what it was like because I was a newcomer to it, but I get that feeling that people are more conservative in their book choices and what they are going to publish and what's a sure sell. As opposed to - just like in the economy - a sense of luxury and sense of risk taking ten years ago.
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When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.
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Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.
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The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
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With a book he was regardless of time.
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This book has neither the virtue of irony nor deserves the sympathy reserved for the truly mad.
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What I don't like is constructing a book that fits in with any kind of generic template, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
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Everyone should have the right to go off and do their music or do their books. The people who are in the position to censor they're really not down to reality where that certain artists are coming from.
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I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
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When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All the standard features were there. but the colors, the zigzags and plaids, the bits and pieces that made up me, Halley, weren't yet in place. Scarlett's vibrant reds and golds helped some, but I was still waiting.
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My first audition for The Magicians came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book.
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I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days.
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When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?
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Don't let anyone discourage you from writing. If you become a professional writer, there are plenty of editors, reviewers, critics, and book buyers to do that.
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Edward Conard’s book represents the most cogent and persuasive analysis of the Financial Crisis to date. It is deeper and likely more accurate than what we have seen so far from journalists, academ- ics, and particularly former government officials.
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I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well.
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The way I've talked about my research process is that it was like magpies. I was just sort of moving through all these books and when something shiny would pop out I'd be like, Ooh, I love it! and I'd pluck it out. It's fun to figure out how to use those bits you really love - like I'd read about gold shoes with cork heels. Obviously, Margaret would have to wear those shoes.
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The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
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A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.
