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Certain people are not going to connect with a book about the effect a dog has on a family. But every one… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
I certainly think that the best book in the world would owe the most to a good index, and the worst book,… — Horace Binney Wallace Copy Share Image
The difference between where you are today and where you'll be five years from now will be found in the quality of… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
Hillary has already gotten a record $8 million advance from Simon & Schuster for the book -- reportedly the most anyone has… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
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As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes,… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them,… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
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I think every filmmaker makes different choices. I remember in the early days, in some of the early comic book movies, certain… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
We're actually trying to develop an iPhone app, now that the Droid is out, we'll do it for that as well, if… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I suppose I tend to like slightly darker things - people have levelled that on me before and I accept that because… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
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I read comic books when I was a kid. Now I have a passion for art and galleries that I think came… — Frank Skinner Copy Share Image
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The most popular cartoon of mine is a guy on the phone looking at his appointment book and saying "No, Thursday's out.… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends… — William Dean Howells Copy Share Image
Every child is going to grow up. You can see it happen in the books: They get older and older and belong… — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
I retain characters more often than plot, but what seems to happen is that I latch on to specific moments, turns of… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
Even when I was in school shows, in elementary school doing plays, I'd always go off book and start improvising. — Billy Crystal Copy Share Image
Seated in my library at night, and looking on the silent faces of my books, I am occasionally visited by a strange… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I have a vision of homes alerted, of classes alive, and of pulpits aflame with the spirit of Book of Mormon messages. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more. — Gabriel Zaid Copy Share Image
Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people who write books… — Josh Lieb Copy Share Image
I'm not a big crossover person, I'll be honest. I try to keep 'Hellcat' separate from the larger Marvel world because I… — Kate Leth Copy Share Image
If Brideshead Revisited is not a great book, it's so like a great book that many of us, at least while reading… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what… — Thomas Jones Copy Share Image
My colleague Bill Keegan has written a very short book ('Saving the World?') on an unlikely topic - he is the first… — Simon Hoggart Copy Share Image
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
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I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
. I used to advise writers to just write their books and it will find a home, and suddenly that didn't seem… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
When people first meet me, they think I'm going to be a mean guy or something. I guess I just need to… — Trace Cyrus Copy Share Image
While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
I think of a book and a play, or a book and a movie, as two separate things - I don't think… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
