Book Quotes
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I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think of it as my novel having a new life.
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The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
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The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.
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If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
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I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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Life is like a book: one has to know when to turn the page.
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I'll never read every single book or go to every single place. But I'll die in the trying of it.
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Every book I write, the media just keeps punching me in the face.
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If I like a book, I tend to read the author's entire collection. But I choose mainly through personal recommendations, general word of mouth and book reviews.
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I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.
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Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to a sort of overall averageness.
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I'm not going to break up my family, not for a book.
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The privilege, and the challenges, of taking on Black Widow have never been lost on me. I worked on the first 'Spiderman' game as well as 'Fantastic Four,' and I had always wanted to be able to tell more of a character-driven comic book story than was possible to fit into a game narrative.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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I have some great stories and I will get around to writing a book.
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Writing is so fun precisely because if you take out the right adjective, the readers can decide what kind of book is in their hands. Suspension of disbelief should not be mandatory in contemporary writing.
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There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
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I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
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But the truth is, that when a Library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.
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I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft. I can write more quickly than I can read.
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'Flaubert's Parrot' is an amphibious book in which what appears to be a personal essay about Flaubertian writing is gradually, delicately transformed into an extremely sad novel in which the differences between character, author, and narrator are less clear than they appear at first glance.
