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Each book takes anywhere from two to three years to complete, from concept to outline to final edits. I work on as… — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
It's pretty lonely and sad to be single. Every night was the same for me, I'd go home and curl up in… — Tom Arnold Copy Share Image
I'm a real dumb-dumb in real life. I'm just book smart. But definitely not street smart. The other day I lost my… — Masi Oka Copy Share Image
I cite in my book countless examples of the foundational documents of the colonial period in America and the writings of the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Remember, we're talking [in The Black Power Mixtape] about 1967, the year before [Martin Luther] King's assassination. We're talking about the emergence… — Danny Glover Copy Share Image
For 179 years [The Book of Mormon] has been examined and attacked, denied and deconstructed, targeted and torn apart like perhaps no… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
In the course of writing a book I'll produce loads of pieces of paper to help the novel itself. Diagrams, charts, family… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
There are records that you just sink into. They coincide with what you’re going through and become an ally. If our records… — Matt Berninger Copy Share Image
Kids tell me all the time, "I don't know how you do it, but that's us in the book." That's the kind… — Robert Cormier Copy Share Image
I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
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I'm very much afraid I didn't mean anything but nonsense. Still, you know, words mean more than we mean to express when… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Talking, is a digestive process which is absolutely essential to the mental constitution of the man who devours many books. — William Matthews Copy Share Image
And therefore, Reader, I myself am the subject of my book: it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens. — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it. You prime a pump with your own… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
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Editing requires you to be always open, always responding. It is very important, for example, not to allow yourself to want the… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
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More like the movie where the guy meets a smart girl who wears a lot of sweaters and drinks cocoa. They talk… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
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The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books ... I… — Kanye West Copy Share Image
I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies. — Jim C. Hines Copy Share Image
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“That's good,' she said, 'you go on like that, reading books. I'll make you a list myself of the books you ought… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
I imagine the earth when I am no more: Women's dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley. Yet the books will… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
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