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Book Quotes by Dave Eggers
- Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came…
- Write your goddamned book now. The world awaits.
- McSweeney's as a publishing company is built on a business model that only works when we sell physical books. So we try to put a…
- When I was on the bestseller list with the first book, everyone who knows me knows that every week it continued to be on the…
- Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of…
- I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books…
- I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.
- I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
- I worked at magazines for over 10 years before I even thought of writing a book.
- It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.
- It's so easy to print in the Midwest. You're saving months in shipping and customs, so we have started printing a number of books there.
- Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's…
- This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed under the weight…
- Then he got more books. He saved all the books.
- Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.
More Book Quotes
- High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
- I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
- Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera -… — Margaret Atwood
- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood