Book Quotes - Page 26

• I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

  Robert Munsch

  Children, Kids, Ideas

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• Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

  Robert Munsch

  Stories, Telling Stories

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• Writing is a bit like swimming. You learn writing by doing it and you learn swimming by doing it. Nobody learns how to swim by reading a book about swimming and nobody learns how to write by reading a book about writing. If you want to learn how to write, write a lot and you will get better at it.

  Robert Munsch

  Reading, Writing, Swimming

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• If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

  Robert Munsch

  Real, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured essays and poems from teens.Finding the right authors for the series has been no easy feat, mostly because I'm looking for a perfect blend of a teen girl with an interesting story or hook, fantastic writing talent, and the confidence to commit to writing a 30,000+ word book in a matter of months. It's a huge commitment and I recognize that, so the fit has to be there from all these different angles.

  Deborah Reber

  Girl, Teenage, Real

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• All the authors who've ultimately published Louder Than Words memoirs have been very happy to be chosen and excited about the possibility of having their memoir published. Even though these books deal with serious, often painful, issues, in all cases the authors felt as though writing their story would be an empowering and healing experience.

  Deborah Reber

  Healing, Writing, Issues

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• I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of writers, or anyone else who tries to make art out of life. Through science they had reached the expressive.

  Vivian Gornick

  Art, Trying, I Realized

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". The Believer Interview, believermagblog.wordpress.com. March 24, 2014.

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• In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what this Iranian from France has to say in her comics. I guess that's good. My the books are coming out in other countries. And each time, they discover something different to be interested in.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Israel, Iran

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.

  William H. Gass

  Ideas, World, Physics

  Interview with Stephen Schenkenberg, www.believermag.com. November, 2005.

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• I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel against it. When I go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, I get furious. Don't tell me that a book is funny. Let me decide if it's funny. It's the same with sitcoms. You call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. And that ruins everything.

  Amy Sedaris

  Hate, Ideas, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March 2004.

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• All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything.

  August Wilson

  Needs

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Careers, People, Technique

  "I Remain Fascinated by Memory". Interview with Michael Scott Moore and Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. October 5, 2005.

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• I find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Fiction, Relate, International

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

  Cesar Millan

  School, Hands, Two

  "Cesar Millan Interview" by David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

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• As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back. When the book is out, it belongs to the readers and you can't stand there breathing over their shoulders.

  Madeline Miller

  Thinking, Breathing, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.

  China Mieville

  Trying, Stories, Pages

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

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• When I'm blogging, I think book writing is easier and vice versa. Writing is lonely work, and the good thing about blogging is that you have immediate feedback from commenters.

  Jenny Lawson

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

  "Sassy Bloggess Jenny Lawson Mandates Cheesecake for Everyone...and for You to Read Her (Mostly True) Memoir, Out Today". Interview with Meredith Turits, www.glamour.com. April 17, 2012.

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• I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

  Jessica Simpson

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  Source: lbc.typepad.com

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• Every free minute away from dance (my main focus) I was memorizing new English words, either showering, walking or on the toilet. I started reading English books even though I had very limited vocabulary.

  Li Cunxin

  Reading, Vocabulary, Focus

  Source: tacdc.com.au

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• You can't judge a book by its cover, though. People think I'm bad because I got tattoos or snort a little cocaine here and there. They think I'm a killer. But what if I wasn't a killer? Then what? Don't be tripping on me. I pay my damn taxes, OK? Chill.

  Gunplay

  Tattoo, Thinking, People

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Lasts, Next

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

  Laverne Cox

  Writing, Want, Undertakings

  Source: www.elle.com

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• For a perfect holiday I need my iPhone and my writing tools. I write all my books by hand so black felt pens and yellow legal pads are a must. And my eyebrow pencil. I'm very low-maintenance.

  Jackie Collins

  Writing, Holiday, Iphone

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• Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

  Aaron Levie

  Clouds, Building, Dilemma

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