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“I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.”

People Thinking Way Persons Book Use Would Be Hate Turns Reading Lost Voice Internet I Hate Shy Compelling Site

Author:Marisha Pessl

“The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue to get older. (It's insights like this that separate the professional book author from the person with a real job.)”

Persons Book Real Funny Jobs Dies Logic Finals Insight Chapters Real Jobs

Book:Dave Barry Turns Forty

Source: Dave Barry Turns Forty

“Son of Lady Chatterley's Lover had obvious commercial advantages (as a title for this book), but it impugned the marital status of my parents, something that enough critics were already doing.”

Book Enough Funny Parent Son Lovers Advantage Critics Obvious Titles

Author:Jack Paar

“She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and donning them for an hour, a day, a week. We think in some ways, we have all done this our whole lives, searching for the book that will give us the keys to ourselves, let us into a wholly formed personality as though it were a furnished room to let. As though we could walk in and look around and say to the gray-haired landlady behind us, "We'll take it."”

Thinking Way Giving Looks Book Matter Hard Done Whole Hours Walks Rooms Behinds Week Keys Personality Pages Whole Life Gray Traits Sister

Author:Eleanor Brown

“We were never organized readers who would see a book through to its end in any sory of logical order. We weave in and out of words like tourists on a hop-on, hop-off bus tour. Put a book down in the kitchen to go to the bathroom and you might return to find it gone, replaced by another of equal interest. We are indiscriminate.”

Book Ends Might Order Interest Gone Return Reader Equal Kitchen Organized Hops Logical Bus Replaced Bathroom Sister Tourists

Author:Eleanor Brown

“Write a nonfiction book, and be prepared for the legion of readers who are going to doubt your fact. But write a novel, and get ready for the world to assume every word is true.”

World Writing Book Facts Novel Doubt Ready Reader Assuming Prepared Nonfiction Be Prepared Legion

Book:High Tide in Tucson

Source: High Tide in Tucson

“Well, first you have to love writing. A lot of authors love having written. But I enjoy the actual writing. Beside that, I think the main reason I can be so prolific is the huge amount of planning I do before I start to write. I do a very complete, chapter-by-chapter outline of every book I write. When I sit down to write, I already know everything that's going to happen in the book. This means I've done all the important thinking, and I can relax and enjoy the writing. I could never write so many books if I didn't outline them first.”

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Author:R. L. Stine

“Back in the class room, open your books, keep up, the teacher don't know how mean she looks.”

Knows Looks Mean Book Rooms Education Class Know How Teacher

Author:Chuck Berry

“Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took.”

Knows Book Education Biology Science Books

Author:Sam Cooke

“Gain some knowledge. If not from the Bible or Koran, get a book from college.”

Ifs Book Education College Gains College Education

Author:LL Cool J

“I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them.”

Book Sitting Marketing

Author:Whitley Strieber

“You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you changed your mind. Now you're certain. You're so... sloppy. You don't know anything. The book, the math, the dates, the writing, all that stuff you decided with your buddies, it's just evidence. It doesn't finish the job. It doesn't prove anything.”

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Author:David Auburn

“Dirac politely refused Robert's [Robert Oppenheimer] two proffered books: reading books, the Cambridge theoretician announced gravely, "interfered with thought."”

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Author:Luis Walter Alvarez

“I always feel as if my books came half out of Lyell's brain... & therefore that when seeing a thing never seen by Lyell, one yet saw it partially through his eyes.”

Ifs Feels Book Eye Science Brain Half Saws Seeing His Eyes

Book:The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

Source: The Correspondence of Charles Darwin

“I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it be accepted even by one competent judge, it will be a considerable step in science. I therefore write this, in case of my sudden death, as my most solemn & last request, which I am sure you will consider the same as if legally entered in my will, that you will devote 400£ to its publication & further will yourself, or through Hensleigh [Wedgwood], take trouble in promoting it.”

Source: On Evolution: The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection

“I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.”

Book Science Sex Physics

Author:Stephen Hawking

“The frontispiece of Mr. Lyell's book is enough to throw a Wernerian into fits.”

Book Enough Science Fit

Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope

“To present a scientific subject in an attractive and stimulating manner is an artistic task, similar to that of a novelist or even a dramatic writer. The same holds for writing textbooks.”

Writing Book Science Subjects Tasks Artistic Novelists Attractive Dramatic Textbooks

Author:Max Born

“What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?”

Book Form Science Powerful Study Mankind Instruction

Author:Francis Collins

“It is as easy to dream a book as it is hard to write one.”

Writing Book Hard Dream Easy

Author:Honore de Balzac

“We are interested in stifling the sale of this book. We believe that this can be best accomplished by refusing to be stampeded into giving it publicity...The less discussion there is concerning it the more sales resistance will be created. We therefore appeal to you to refrain from comment on this book...It is our conviction that a general compliance with this request will sound the warning to other publishing houses against engaging in this type of venture. (Signed) Richard E. Gutstadt, Director.”

“The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and the latter a little later; but they contain materials much older than themselves...In them, as in the teachings of Zoroaster, everything that exists emanates from a source of infinite Light.”

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Author:Albert Pike

“You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book.”

Ifs Way Want Writing Book Happens Special Ambition

Author:Michael Lewis

“I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.”

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Author:Camilla Lackberg

“Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line.”

Thinking Book Lines Half Written Good Day Bad Day Catch Me

Author:Dennis Lehane

“If you get a book which is 600 pages, you have to reduce it to a script of 100 pages. In two hours of film, you cannot possibly include all the characters.”

Ifs Two Book Character Film Hours Pages Scripts

Author:Dino De Laurentiis

“Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his or her own books.”

Giving Persons Book Reading Bookstores Certificates Personal Things

Author:Erik Larson

“I'm a people person, very approachable. I go out every night, tons of functions. I love all facets of this industry... Music, film, TV, books, art. I love being around creative people.”

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Author:Guy Oseary

“Before 'Wings' came out, I told a few people that at the end of book one, readers should think Laurel made the right choice. Then, at the end of 'Spells,' they should understand why Laurel made the choice she did.”

People Thinking Should Made Book Ends Choices Reader Wings Spells Laurels Right Choices

Author:Aprilynne Pike

“I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.”

Firsts Book Fans Serious Hungry Innocent

Author:Ridley Pearson

“We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.”

Book Dark Media Available Teenager Dark Times

Author:Tamora Pierce

“With each book, in each place, I have to keep an ongoing map as I write because otherwise I don't know where I am.”

Knows Writing Book Maps Ongoing

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Publishers have realized that, unlike the previous time period, American teenagers are both smarter and require more topical material than they had been giving them before that. For one thing, they'll read thicker books. Besides, has anybody looked at the news or read the newspapers recently?”

Giving Book One Thing Materials Periods News Newspapers Teenager Smarter Publishers Time Periods

Author:Tamora Pierce

“Teen problem novels? I can go through them like a box of chocolates. And there are fantasy books out now that need a lot more editing. Fantasy got to be so popular that people began to think 'We don't need to be as diligent with the razor blade,' but they do.”

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Author:Tamora Pierce

“What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.”

People Want Book Dream Achieve Shapes

Author:Tamora Pierce

“My brother is a comic-book writer, and I was always in love with comics.”

Book Brother Comic My Brother Comic Book

Author:Adrianne Palicki

“I don't write for an audience, I don't think whether my book will sell, I don't sell it before I finish writing it.”

Thinking Writing Book Audience Sells

Author:Ann Patchett

“I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.”

Trying Book Enjoy Quiet Beach Sanity

Author:Audrina Patridge

“All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?”

Writing Book Shows Easy

Author:Daniel Pinkwater

“I always loved reading. Growing up, my favorite book was 'A Child's Garden of Verses,' by Robert Louis Stevenson.”

Children Book Reading Growing Up Growing Garden My Favorite Verses Favorite Book

Author:Francine Pascal

“Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.”

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Author:Gary Paulsen

“I cry at the end of every book.”

Book Ends Cry

Author:Hunter Parrish

“I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.”

Book Funny Guy Stuff Boys Growing Up Growing My Friends Actresses Comic Enjoyed Girlfriend Comic Book Nerd

Author:Megan Fox

“I haven't been the kind of writer about whom book-length academic studies have been written.”

Kind Has Beens Book Literature Study Written Havens Length Academic

Author:Manuel Puig

“I love comic books. I just do.”

Book Comic Comic Book

Author:Megan Fox

“The best source for finding an agent is called Literary Agents of North America. It's a complete list of agents, not only by name and address, but by type of book they represent and by what their submission criteria are.”

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Author:Sara Paretsky

“I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.”

People Thinking Book Enough Problem Mystery

Author:Thomas Perry

“It's important, I think, for a writer of fiction to maintain an awareness of the pace and shape of the book as he's writing it. That is, he should be making an object, not chattering.”

Thinking Should Writing Important Book Fiction Awareness Objects Shapes Pace

Author:Thomas Perry

“When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.”

Writing I Can Book

Author:Thomas Perry

“Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.”

Book Becoming Village Edits

Author:Thomas Perry

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