Book Quotes - Page 27

• Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to keep the momentum going. It's the kind of art I love to make, except that the time frame is really nutty.

  Carson Ellis

  Art, Kids, Years

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Looks, Gone

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• You really write the books you want to write. You can't take into consideration anything that anybody has said about you in the past, or what they'll say about you in the future.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Writing, Past, Want

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on.

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Vision, Tape

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

  Joel Plaskett

  Use, Language, Written Word

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

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• As a writer I am proud that if you took my last four books, and they didn't have my name on them, I don't think readers would know they were by the same author.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Thinking, Names, Four

  Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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• There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Style, Not Interested

  Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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• I do believe, especially with the character of Batman, that the tone and the mood of the book is 80% of the job right there. And the more control I had over the story, the more control I had over the tone and the mood.

  David Finch

  Jobs, Believe, Character

  Source: ifanboy.com

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• Other people's creativity inspires me. Seeing great art, or reading a fab book or watching an interesting documentary or an exciting film - these things make me want to let my own imagination fly.

  Kate Cary

  Art, Reading, Creativity

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

  Kate Cary

  Writing, Successful, Editors

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• The theme that runs through all my books is connection. Connection - physical and non-physical - with other humans, and connection with nature are necessary for our well-being. Without it, we are depressed, lonely, and fail to thrive.

  Mary Alice Monroe

  Running, Lonely, Connections

  Source: www.maryannhenry.com

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• When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his titles, I tell the clerk to order what is missing. I do it because I want people to read my father's work.

  John Fante

  Father, Order, People

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• Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.

  John Fante

  Strong, Father, Bullshit

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• Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published.

  Lee Gutkind

  Pain, Hard Work, Want

  Source: speechwriting-ghostwriting.typepad.com

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• I stay in contact with kids, and that is a lot of fun for me, not only to get their letters but to meet them in schools and see that the books really have engaged their hearts and imaginations. That's what makes it so worthwhile.

  Will Hobbs

  Fun, Heart, School

  Source: scholar.lib.vt.edu

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• In recent years I have become more interested in making the critical ideas that I love teaching and talking about available in more forms, because many people prefer to engage with ideas in films, infographics, comics and other forms that are not traditional books or articles.

  Dean Spade

  Teaching, Talking, Years

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.

  Robert Dessaix

  Writing, People, Want

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

  Dave Ulrich

  Writing

  "Dave and Wendy Ulrich: An interview by Bob Morris". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and generate new poems. I re-read the new poems in my folder in the hope that this might happen.

  Michael Longley

  Writing, Might, Gaps

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• I hardly ever look at my published books.

  Michael Longley

  Looks

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• I wasn't inspired so much by a person as by reading many good books. I loved to write and I wondered if I might be able to write material that others would enjoy reading.

  Peg Kehret

  Reading, Writing, Might

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• Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Inspiration, Reading, Different

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• I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can't find it.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Moving, Paris, Office

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• One summer I was homeless in L.A., when I was about fifteen, and I used to go to the library to get books. I would have books in abandoned cars, in the seats, cubby holes on the L.A. River, just to have books wherever I could keep them, I just loved to have books. And that really helped me. I didn't realize it was going to be my destiny; I didn't know I was going to be a writer.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Summer, Destiny, Rivers

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Dad, Home, Homies

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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