Book Quotes
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Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
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I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
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A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.
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You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.
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I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment.
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. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an adaptation of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.
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I went to SXSW in 2011. God, that was awful. I mean, I only went because my publisher wanted me to promote the book and the organizers invited me and it seemed silly not to go, especially for a relatively unknown first-time author. This is just not my cup of tea; the fewer such events I do on an annual basis, the happier I feel.
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I love the musical form of books. It's a different way of doing things, it's very beautiful. You're able to sing things instead of saying them. So what the heck - why not do them?
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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
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I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me.
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More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
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I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.
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Definitely things changed from the books. Especially when youre adapting something.
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When I was a little boy in Worcestershire reading history books I never thought I should have to interfere between a king and his mistress.
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I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
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I always wanted to write a book that would have people talking, theorizing, arguing.
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He often envied people who hadn't read his favourite books. They had such happiness before them.
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When you are studying from a book, lots of people go straight to the end to look for the answers. But that's not my style. For me, the most enjoyable part is the puzzle, the process of solving, not the solution itself.
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I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.
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You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
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Loneliness had taught Harriet that there was always someone who understood - it was just so often that they were dead, and in a book.
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It's funny because The Book of Mormon is The Book of Mormon now. When I was doing it at the very beginning, and I was a part of it for four years and always believed in it, I never really knew if it was going to be more than a convention for South Park fans.
