Book Quotes - Page 21

• If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

  Tucker Max

  Doe, Journalist, Ifs

  Source: www.complex.com

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• If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

  Misha Collins

  Writing, Use, Internet

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• 50 is a great person. I was a little intimidated when I met him for the first time in 2006. I didn't know what to expect. It ended up we got along really well. That's why we decided to do a book together, The 50th Law of Power.

  Robert Greene

  Law, Together, Littles

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• I had been self-publishing for a number of years at that stage and selling my books at markets around Melbourne - little pocket books. I'd make them for 10 cents and sell them for a dollar. But I knew there was an audience who loved silly stuff so I just kept plugging away.

  Andy Griffiths

  Silly, Self, Years

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• I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

  Tim Gunn

  Couple, Library, Next

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• I hate the word "eclectic" .I'm a classicist, and I like comfort. Lots of books, lots of artwork, pieces of family furniture, and newer upholstery.

  Tim Gunn

  Hate, Comfort, Pieces

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• I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Grandmother, Comfort, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Christian, Rosary, Firsts

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• Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Dust, Ideas

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• I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Fun, Reading

  Source: content.time.com

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• My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Community, Together

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Obtaining

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Tattoo, People, Stuff

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.

  Sarah Dessen

  Challenges, Way, Process

  "El Templo" Interview with Lucía Gayo, www.eltemplodelasmilpuertas.com. June 2013.

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• I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Reader, Relate

  "El Templo" Interview with Lucía Gayo, www.eltemplodelasmilpuertas.com. June 2013.

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• My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Dad, Reading

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Tired, Thinking

  Source: cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com

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• I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.

  Sarah Dessen

  Husband, Writing, Done

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Benefits, Waitress

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• I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, People, Might

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

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• I have SO many books I didn't sell. Some my agent rejected outright, others made it all the way to my editor to be turned away. Not everything is a winner, which is tough when you've devoted eight or nine months of your life to something.

  Sarah Dessen

  Editors, Eight, Nine

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.

  Sarah Dessen

  Want, Needs, Agents

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.ftd.com

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• I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.

  Elvis Costello

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• Science is wonderful, science is important, and so are children, so are young people, and so what could be better than to write a science book for young people?

  Richard Dawkins

  Children, Writing, People

  "The Geek's Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams and David Barr Kirtley, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. December 2011.

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