When I wrote 'Marley & Me,' I had a clear audience in mind. And it did not include children. I wrote my… — John Grogan Copy Share Image
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Characters develop as the book progresses, but any that start to bore me end up in the wastepaper basket. In real life,… — Laurie Graham Copy Share Image
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The diet book is one of those fool-and-money separation devices that seems, like roulette or slot machines, never to lose its power. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
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My reputation when I was first here was that I had every single answer in the book. I don't know, maybe I… — Mike Holmgren Copy Share Image
Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the… — Echo Bodine Copy Share Image
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I tell beginning readers to read a lot and write a lot. If you want to write a book, find a subject… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
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As Popa penetrates deeper into his life, with book after book, it begins to look like a Universe passing through a Universe.… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
I used to envy people who had written books, the way I think women envy other women who've had babies. I was… — Joan Juliet Buck Copy Share Image
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Sir Francis Bacon observed that a well-written book, compared with its rivals and antagonists, is like Moses' serpent, that immediately swallowed up… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
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A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There… — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
It is not book learning young men need, nor instruction about this and that, but a stiffening of the vertebra which will… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
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