Own Book Quotes
28 quotes by 27 authors
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Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
— Saul Alinsky
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You apply the skills you use to produce your own book to make an anthology. Shaping. Rhythm.
— Robyn
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Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success
— Herb Brooks
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Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody who's…
— Bob Dylan
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The fourth rule is: "Make the enemy live up to their own book of rules." You can kill them with this, for they can no…
— Saul Alinsky
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You can never read your own book with the innocent anticipation that comes with that first delicious page of a new book, because you wrote…
— Margaret Atwood
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All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has…
— Richard Le Gallienne
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Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.
— Julian Barnes
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When I was 8 years old, I made my own encyclopedia of American biography - Johnny Appleseed, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, Charles Lindbergh,…
— Douglas Brinkley
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Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam…
— William Shakespeare
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Never index your own book.
— Kurt Vonnegut
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I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
— John Hodgman
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I don't know what your childhood was like, but we didn't have much money. We'd go to a movie on a Saturday night, then on…
— Robert Redford
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Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places the palimpsest is…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Harry: This book belongs to Harry Potter. Ron: Shared by Ron Weasley, because his fell apart. Hermione: Why don't you buy a new one then?…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books in my library,…
— Rachilde
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Don't believe everything you read. It's very difficult to be accepting of our own bodies. This topic deserves it's own book, but since I'm not…
— Ally Carter
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I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned too brusquely the…
— Anais Nin
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but I felt as if I’d just been Photoshopped out of my own book cover. And if there was one thing I wasn’t used to,…
— Rick Riordan
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The fundamental difficulty that most novelists face when they are trying to adapt their own book into a screenplay is realizing that a screenplay is…
— Barry Eisler
Who Wrote These Own Book Quotes
27 authors contributed a total of 28 Own Book Quotes, led by these top contributors: