Unto each one hath been prescribed a preordained measure, as decreed in God's mighty and guarded Tablets. All that which ye potentially… — Bahá'u'lláh Copy Share Image
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles. — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
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Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
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I cried most days working on the first draft. The last scenes were the hardest. I had a feeling where I wanted… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
During the process of writing the book, I had this experience that was telling for me. I got it and the basic… — Valerie Estelle Frankel Copy Share Image
Steve McClellan has drawn on an insider's lifetime view of how Wall Street really works to produce a practical and entertaining book… — Charles O. Rossotti Copy Share Image
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My general writing preface is to write an outline and then ignore about half of it, both on a micro level with… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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I write four or five a books a year. That means that I usually have one on the go. I am fortunate… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
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I can understand the allure of a venerable Big Six imprint, of a shot at the New York Times list, of a… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
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I follow the teachings of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, United States Marine Corps. He won two Congressional Medals of Honor, and… — Jesse Ventura Copy Share Image
It took a while for anyone to want to publish 'To Repel Ghosts.' I thought people would want to publish a three-hundred-and-fifty-page… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
Too few people in my old field of financial services were ever brought to book for their part in the 2008 crash. — Andrea Leadsom Copy Share Image
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Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by… — James Gleick Copy Share Image
I actually pushed the boundaries on how long a book like this [The Thorn and the Blossom] can be. The original plan… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
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I never approved either the errors of his book, or the trivial truths he so vigorously laid down. I have, however, stoutly… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
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