I don't want to go slumming in somebody else's pain just to write a book. I want to go into those darker… — Patricia McCormick Copy Share Image
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
A lot of the ways that I like to approach comic books, or anything like that, is not just the book itself,… — Kate Beaton Copy Share Image
before I could read, almost a baby, I imagined that God, this strange thing or person I heard about, was a book. — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
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Attacking bad books is not only a waste of time but also bad for the character. If I find a book really… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I feel sorry for people who have to edit me. Which is why book writing is by far the most enjoyable. Really… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
I maintain that there is no common language or medium of understanding between people of education and without it - between those… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There's nothing definite yet. Of course, any time you have a book, there's going to be book signings and stuff. We'll do… — Scotty Moore Copy Share Image
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They say nobody has the attention span to read great books early in life. If I start to read something good, I'll… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
In the Bhagavad-Gita, a book that I revere and respect, it's indicated that even women, along with animals, are capable of attaining… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Books are not brands. Some people are very willing to see themselves as a brand, but you can't be a certain type… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
It took a brave editor in the U.S. to sign a contract for Dancing Girls, and without her belief in the book,… — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I always wanted to write a book about LA, a big ambitious book. Nobody had ever really done it with LA- treating… — James Frey Copy Share Image
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Don't judge a book by it's cover, cause the people you usually judge always come out the best people Be yourself, never… — Angel_eyes Copy Share Image
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
I want to write more books, see my first novel made into a film, fight more campaigns, work in more countries. I… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought." — Luis Walter Alvarez Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are… — John Irving Copy Share Image
As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I… — William James Copy Share Image
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My first book was on the grittier side of life. A week before being published, I realized all of my main characters… — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
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As theories increased, simple medicines..were forgotten, at least in the politer nations. ...Medical books, were immensely multiplied,...(towards) an abstruse science, quite out… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
“This book takes the opposing stand that in order to go deeply inside ourselves, we must journey within our physical bodies.” — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
I don't know how the editors are going to take it or how it may be received. But to some extent I'm… — Christopher Darden Copy Share Image
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