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“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

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

Book Enough Science Fit

Author:George Julius Poulett Scrope

“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

“My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough money to live on, and was beginning to think I'd have to give up the dream of being a full-time writer.”

Thinking Giving Firsts Book Enough Dream Half Novel Five Giving Up Six Dozen Publishers Turned Down

Author:Ian Rankin

“I know not everyone starts out reading high literature. If you read enough you might be drawn to some other things, so maybe those vampire books are what they call 'gateway books.' I just coined that term. I don't know if there's a thing called 'gateway books.”

Ifs Knows Book Enough Might Reading Literature Term Vampire Gateways

Author:Josh Radnor

“If you think about movies that are adapted from books, they never feel like enough. There's always too much cut out in the end. You either make a five hour movie or you leave out stuff that should be in there.”

Ifs Thinking Feels Should Book Ends Enough Stuff Hours Five Too Much Cutting Adapted

Author:Jeremy Sisto

“I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.”

Book Enough Problem Pay Too Much Sells Various Lawyer

Author:Peter Sotos

“But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction.”

Knows Writing Long Book Enough Three Four New Directions

Author:Daniel Woodrell

“When you get inside a literary novel you feel that the author, more often than not, just doesn't know enough about things. They haven't been around enough - novelists never go anywhere. Once I discovered true books about real things - books like 'How To Run a Company' - I stopped reading novels.”

Knows Feels Book Real Enough Running Reading Company Novel Havens Novelists Real Things Reading Novels

Author:Peter York

“This book has too much plot and not enough story.”

Book Enough Stories Funny Too Much Stupid Plot

Author:Samuel Goldwyn

“[as for evolution]....cutting out the sections [on the subject] is preferrable if the portions are not thick enough to cause damage to the spine of the book as it is opened and closed in normal use. When the sections needing correction are too thick, paste the pages together being careful not to smear portions of the book not intended for correction.”

Ifs Book Enough Use Together Causes Cutting Subjects Evolution Normal Pages Careful Damage Portions Thick Agnostic Sections Spine Corrections

Author:George R. R. Martin

“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.”

“Books are certainly old fashioned, but only people with a very limited perception are silly enough to condemn ideas because of their age. It is, of course, equally silly to condemn the new fangled simply because it is strange.”

People Book Ideas Enough Age Courses Strange Perception Silly Old Fashioned

Author:Prince Philip

“I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.”

Way Feels I Can Book Sometimes Enough Moments Home Fall Reading Imagine Paper Papers Overflow Right Moment

Book:Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors

Source: Books and Islands in Ojibwe Country: Traveling Through the Land of My Ancestors

“Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.”

Two Book Enough Hate Sleep Laughing Worship Window Grants Peas Cringe Heating Peas In A Pod

Author:Elizabeth Hurley

“I'm never, I hope, stupid enough to believe that Twitter or blogging or any of this stuff is a substitute for actually doing the work or writing a book.”

Writing Believe Book Enough Stuff Stupid Substitutes Writing A Book Blogging

Author:Neil Gaiman

“Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?”

Book Enough Answers

Author:Jack White

“If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.”

Ifs Writing Book Different Enough Wonderful Havens Sells Addiction Something New Publish Superb

Author:Charles Adams

“When I was doing Professor Albert Einstein's bust he had many a jibe at the Nazi professors, one hundred of whom had condemned his theory of relativity in a book. 'Were I wrong,' he said, 'one professor would have been enough.”

Has Beens Said Book Enough Theory Hundred Critics Professors Nazi Relativity Theories Of Relativity

Author:Jacob Epstein

“How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?”

Littles Book Enough Dozen

Book:The 1826 Journal of John James Audubon

Source: The 1826 Journal of John James Audubon

“The city's the best gallery I could imagine. I would never have to make a book and then present it to a gallery and let them decide if my work was nice enough to show it to people. I would control it directly with the public in the streets.”

People Ifs Book Enough Shows Inspiration Motivation Cities Nice Imagine Streets Gallery

Author:JR

“I think my books are better than my exhibitions. If people don't like my books then I don't mind. I guess you like them enough to write an essay about them so that makes me pretty happy.”

People Ifs Thinking Writing Mind Book Enough Essays Exhibitions

Author:David Shrigley

“Well, I'm not able to work anymore as an actor and still at the level I would want to ... you start to lose your memory, you start to lose your confidence, you start to lose your invention. So, that's pretty much a closed book for me. And I'm grateful for the other things that have come into my life: grandkids, and restaurants and charity ... I've been doing it for 50 years. That's enough.”

Want Years Wells Stills Book Enough Able Actors Loses Memories Levels Grateful Charity Invention Restaurants Our Memories Grandkids

Author:Paul Newman

“There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more divine than any I see I think that is enough to say about them.”

Thinking Want Persons Book Sometimes Enough Divine Breaths Noble

Book:My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

Source: My Heart is a Large Kingdom: Selected Letters of Margaret Fuller

“I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a total state of non-expectation. I don't expect things, and I keep my expectations very low about everything.”

Ifs Said Book States Enough Lows Expectations Phones

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“Should novels generally be 600 pages? No, they should not. Half of writing, maybe 3/4 of writing, is editing. This seems to be a thing that has not gotten through to them. It's my impression that you could get rid of half of most of these books. These people are not good enough to be this long, but they're apparently also not good enough to be shorter.”

People Should Writing Long Book Enough Seems Half Novel Pages Impression Good Enough Editing Not Good Enough

Author:Fran Lebowitz

“I discovered that I had, in the past two decades, written a far greater amount in the essay form than I remembered. Certainly I have written enough of it to demonstrate that I harbor no disdain for literary journalism or just plain journalism, under whose sponsorship I have been able to express much that has fascinated me, or alarmed me, or amused me, or otherwise engaged my attention when I was not writing a book.”

Source: This Quiet Dust and Other Writings

“If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.”

Ifs Book Enough Character Able Surprise Plot

Author:Alan Lightman

“I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded as a defect, a limitation of my imagination. I could put myself in their position, but not politically. The idea of writing a story or a book about somebody completely devoid of appreciation of anything I care about is completely foreign to me.”

Knows Feels Writing Book Ideas Enough Stories Care Imagination Class Position Appreciation Limitation I Care Defects My Imagination Lower Class

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.”

Ifs Writing Book Enough Letters

Author:Roger Zelazny

“The church in the book (and movie) plays a pivotal scene. We looked everywhere .. I mean everywhere! We had to have enough of a front yard area to house a Nativity scenes. And we finally found it .. two miles from our office. And we had been all over Tulsa looking. We were looking in places in Texas, everywhere! And I was in the car with the director and we drove by the church.”

Mean Two Book Enough Play Found House Church Car Fronts Scene Directors Office Areas Miles Texas Yards Pivotal Books And Movies Nativity Tulsa

Author:Luka Magnotta

“None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book in the future. Some have expressed the very opposite feeling--the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.”

Writing Book Ideas Enough Feelings Might Interesting Opposites Patient

Author:Irvin D. Yalom

“There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.”

Two Book Enough Two Things Caffeine Without Music

Author:Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“My mom taught me to read when I was two or three. When I was five I read and wrote well enough to do my nine-year older brother's homework in exchange for chocolate or cigarettes. By the time I was 10, I was reading Orwell, Tolstoy's War and Peace, and the Koran. I was reading comic books too.”

Years Wells Two Book War Enough Three Reading Five Taught Brother Mom My Mom Nine Comic Chocolate Cigarette Comic Book Homework Nine Years Older Brother

Author:Chris Abani

“Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths of mankind either don't know it or think it's a sham, because it isn't what their book or their prophet says, and it isn't cozy or manipulable enough.”

Thinking Knows World Book Enough Age Universe Written Mankind Creation Nine Prophet Over It World History Cozy

Author:Sheri S. Tepper

“If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.”

Ifs Knows Men Writing Book Enough Funny My Own Sarcasm Sarcastic

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“You may be sitting in a room reading this book. Imagine one note struck upon the piano. Immediately that one note is enough to change the atmosphere of the room - proving that the sound element in music is a powerful and mysterious agent, which it would be foolish to deride or belittle.”

May Book Enough Would Be Reading Sound Rooms Powerful Imagine Prove Elements Music Is Sitting Notes Foolish Mysterious Agents Atmosphere Piano Belittle

Book:What to Listen For in Music

Source: What to Listen For in Music

“The good news is that the comics field is small enough and informal enough that once you have made a comic, you have achieved your dreams: you have broken into the comics industry. The problem with breaking in, though, is that staying in is harder.”

Made Book Enough Problem Dream Fields Broken Industry News Harder Comic Your Dreams Staying Comic Book Good News Dreams You Have

Author:Greg Pak

“What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just electrocuting it and keeping it sort of shambling on. There is a lot more creator-owned stuff now, and some of it I look at and go, 'Oh, that's his pitch for a TV show. That's his pitch for a movie. That's him saying oh, this kind of thing sells.' I didn't do that.”

Looks Kind Book Enough Shows Body Stuff Alive Tvs Industry Sells Creator Comic Comic Book Tv Shows Costumes Enough Time

Author:Mike Mignola

“I have read many, many of these first-time published efforts and often, even though some are absolutely at pro levels of production, and have very costly printing and presentation, they lack a purpose, they merely emulate successful comics that already exist... I can't stress this enough. Have something to say.”

Firsts I Can Book Enough Purpose Levels Effort Successful First Time Stress Productions Comic Comic Book Presentation Printing Emulate

Author:Gail Simone

“Interestingly enough, Aurthur C. Clarke once autographed a copy of his book "Rendezvous with Rama" for me.”

Book Enough Copies Rama Rendezvous

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It will be my birthday on Tuesday. Last year, I reached the painful conclusion that there wasn't enough time left to read every book ever written. This year, my gloomy realisation is even more painful - I will not be able to correct everyone's mistakes before I depart.”

Years Book Enough Able Lasts Left Language Mistake Written Painful Conclusion Last Year Enough Time Gloomy Tuesday My Birthday Realisation Time Left

Author:Daniel Finkelstein

“I took one glance at her in that hospital bed under the dull light and recognised the look on her face, which I'd seen on donors often enough before. It was like she was willing her eyes to see right inside herself, so she could patrol and marshal all the better the separate areas of pain in her body.”

Looks Book Enough Body Light Eye Pain Faces Language Willing Bed Areas Dull Hospitals Her Eyes Glances Donors

Author:Kazuo Ishiguro

“Steve Coogan picks up enough to lecture an interviewer: This is a postmodern novel before there was any modernism to be post about. Later it's claimed that Tristram Shandy was No. 8 on the Observer's list of the greatest novels, which cheers everyone until they discover the list was chronological.”

Book Enough Language Novel Picks Lists Posts Cheer Observers Lectures Modernism Postmodern Interviewers

Book:Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

Source: Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2007

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