Whole Book Quotes
36 quotes by 34 authors
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I don't think there is a single sentence in this whole book [East of Eden] that does not either develop character, carry on the story…
— John Steinbeck
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With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.
— Olivia Munn
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Writers shouldn't fall in love with their characters so much that they lose sight of what they're trying to accomplish. The idea is to write…
— Stephen Coonts
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I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's…
— Michael W. Smith
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I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like…
— Don Novello
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I realize now I could have gotten a whole book out of that and so I think that was a big mistake. But the truth…
— Michael Connelly
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Winterson has her own unmistakeable voice, tuned to express her obsessional preoccupation with sexual passion raised to the power of revealed religion. (...) The whole…
— Victoria Glendinning
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If we're all on the same page, no one's reading the whole book.
— Andy Hargreaves
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It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and…
— Horace
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Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the…
— Lewis Carroll
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When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.
— Brody Dalle
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Tormented by the cursed ambition always to put a whole book in a page, a whole page in a sentence, and this sentence in a…
— Joseph Joubert
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can…
— Mads Mikkelsen
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Then one day I thought it would be wonderful to make a whole book, to make my text and my drawings together, and that's how…
— Dick Bruna
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It makes it easier, if you can't do an American accent. I don't know. It's different. I played a character in Never Let Me Go…
— Carey Mulligan
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It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.
— George Sand
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What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is…
— Mark Twain
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For small erections may be finished by their first architects; grand ones, true ones, ever leave the copestone to posterity. God keep me from ever…
— Herman Melville
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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 we use them;…
— Lewis Carroll
Who Wrote These Whole Book Quotes
34 authors contributed a total of 36 Whole Book Quotes, led by these top contributors: