Books Quotes
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
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'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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I was a huge fan of 'Game Of Thrones.' I hadn't read the books but had watched the series from the beginning.
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As frightening as this may sound, what you see in the books is the way I see the world. And so far I haven't seen anything, either in Florida or elsewhere, to dissuade me from it.
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I get enjoyment out of writing, but I get absolutely no enjoyment out of rewriting, so I don't do much of it. The more you work on something, certainly, the better it gets. But there's also a pretty clear law of diminishing returns. It drives me crazy to do readings of my books, because if I read anything I've written in the past, I'd like to almost rewrite everything.
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I love books.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
