Book Quotes
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There were a lot of lyrics that I sang but didn't understand. But I had this facade in performance of looking like I wrote the book.
Elaine Stritch
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Why don't men like to stop and ask directions? This question, which I first addressed in my 1990 book 'You Just Don't Understand: Women and Men in Conversation', garnered perhaps the most attention of any issue or insight in that book.
Deborah Tannen
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I've heard people have written books of me. People don't even know me, but they've written a book on me. You ever heard of hearing it from the horse's mouth? I'm the horse.
R. Kelly
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After being rejected for years, I found a publisher for 'Keeper,' and it won prizes, and then I had to write a second and a third book because I kept taking the money and spending it.
Mal Peet
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I am the first person to go to Barnes & Noble and buy the new self-help book. I like to fill out the surveys, then I get my friends' opinions on how I answered to see if I was being honest with myself or not.
Jessica Simpson
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Ooh, look at me, I’m Dave, I’m writing a book! With all my thoughts in it. La la la!
Dave Eggers
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It's going to be hard to ever have a horse to replace Valegro. He is a professor. I think he read the dressage book and learnt it all before he ever did it.
Charlotte Dujardin
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With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over again.
Dani Shapiro
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
David Nicholls
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You write, hoping to write a good book; that's it.
Marissa Moss
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I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.
Beverly Lewis
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New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will.
Marissa Moss
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Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.
John le Carre
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You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey you get the lacrosse scores?'
Artie Lange
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The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.
Jemaine Clement
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In 2004, one of my books, 'Whale Talk,' was chosen as an all-school read in Fowlerville, Michigan, a rural town not far from Detroit. They had done what I thought was a brilliant and innovative thing: decided to teach the book in every discipline, sophomores through seniors.
Chris Crutcher
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I like to read, even though it was really tough, because I could go anywhere in the world in a book, and I could have so many adventures in a book.
Octavia Spencer
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A book might be written on the injustice of the just.
Pauline Kael
