“It's easy to get published once you have written a really good book and the hard part, 99 percent of what you need to worry about, is really finishing it.” NeedsBookHardEasyWorryWrittenPercentGood BookFinishingEasy To GetFinishing It Author:Laini Taylor
“All over the world, there are libraries of a sort. They are among the most beautiful places on the earth, and they hold more information than the Library of Congress. Within these libraries are millions of books, each a uniques masterpiece to see and touch. They are teaching this language to scientists. However, so far only one percent of the books have been deciphered. Some tell how to find new medicines; others reveal new things to eat... These treasure houses of knowledge are the ancient forests of our planet.” WorldHas BeensBookEarthBeautifulHouseLanguageMillionsTeachingInformationPlanetsPercentScientistMedicineLibraryCongressAncientTreasureForestsNew ThingsMasterpieceOur PlanetBeautiful Places Author:Brock Adams
“When I am writing, I focus one hundred percent on my writing. Then, by the time I'm half way through the book, I'm already thinking about the ending.” ThinkingWayWritingBookHalfFocusPercentHundredHalf Way Author:Anita Desai
“The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times.” BookReadingLiteratureFictionNovelPercentScience FictionSevenOur TimeReviewsNinetyRubbishWorth ReadingGood Science Author:Robert Anton Wilson
“All of my books have an element of a man who is in love with somebody and needs them desperately, not just for procreation but for being able to fully unbosom himself. He only feels comfortable discussing things with women. Which is funny, because 80 percent of readers are women!” MenNeedsFeelsBookAbleReaderElementsComfortablePercentDiscussingProcreation Author:Gary Shteyngart
“In my book ["Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age], I argue that we're vulnerable to technologies.There's a 40 percent decline in all markers for empathy among college students, with most of it taking place in the past years.” YearsBookAgePastTechnologyStudentsCollegeConversationEmpathyPercentArguingVulnerableDigitalDeclineDigital AgeCollege StudentsMarkers Author:Judy Woodruff
“I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with.” WorldWantBookPlayCarePercentDon't CareApplesGrossMarginsCharging Author:Gabe Newell
“Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.” IfsThinkingWantLooksLittlesBookCharacterGirlStuffResponsibilityRolesModelsPercentDaughterFemaleWindowMalesStoresComicOddMy DaughterRole ModelsComic BookShelves Author:Mark Millar
“I just trust the people involved. Marvel and DC for the last 16 years - is that 90 percent of the time it's incredible top talent. Like, this is what makes it different from the pre-2000 superhero movies. I would say, except Tim Burton and Richard Donner, it was generally, comic book movies were done by guys who weren't that into the material and people who didn't really respect the stuff. But as everything, whether it's Wolverine, X-Men, Avengers, Batman, all these things, it's just been done by top-tier people. I have total confidence that they'll continue that tradition of being great.” PeopleMenYearsBookDifferentDoneLastsGuyStuffTalentMaterialsInvolvedPercentTraditionIncrediblesComicComic BookSuperheroX MenAvengers Author:Mark Millar
“People say, "Look, your book [Tales and Wisdom from Duck Dynasty's Favorite Uncle] is about tall tales." And I said, "No, you don't understand, OK? The book is tall tales, OK, by me. But look, those tall tales are my life, OK? And look, I added some spices in there. That's the five percent. You know the one about the wolves chasing me? The only thing about that - they wasn't wolves, they was coyotes".” PeopleKnowsLooksSaidBookFivePercentTalesTallDucksUnclesChasingSpicesDynastyCoyotesChasing MeTall TalesFavorite Uncle Author:Si Robertson
“I don't think it's necessarily 100-percent true. But comic books have infiltrated the mainstream Hollywood in ways that I don't think I ever would have seen or thought imaginable a while ago. But it's also cyclical. You saw it in the '80s when it became kind of huge again. And then it disappears for a while, then it comes back again, then it disappears for a while. So yeah, there's something about that.” ThinkingWayKindBookSawsHugePercentHollywoodYeahDisappearComicMainstreamComic Book80sBack Again Author:Ryan Reynolds
“It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and really read the best books. It turns out that even when you create this kind of environment, maybe only 10 percent of the people want to read those books.” PeopleWantKindBookIdeasTurnsDemocracyEnvironmentPercentAccess Author:Robert Hass
“The biggest influence on my writing, besides snagging some ideas about black humor, was that the paper mill had a program where they paid 75 percent of the tuition and book [costs] for employees who wanted to go to college part-time.” WritingBookIdeasWantedBlackInfluenceCollegeCostPaperPercentProgramPaidEmployeeMillsPart TimeTuitionBlack Humor Author:Donald Ray Pollock
“I'd make an educated guess that 20 to 25 percent of the taxable property in the U.S. is Church-owned.In a recent book, Church Wealth and Business Income, it was estimated that this property -all of it tax-exempt -is worth upwards of 80 billion dollars. I know that's a fantastic, unbelievable figure, but there's every reason to believe that it's on the conservative side; and this amount is increasing yearly at a geometric rate.” KnowsBelieveBookReasonSidesChurchWealthFiguresAmountTaxesPercentDollarsPropertyRateConservativeBillionsIncomeEducatedFantasticUnbelievableGeometric Author:Madalyn Murray O'Hair
“I once made a check of all books in my fourth-grade classroom. Of the slightly more than six hundred books, almost one quarter had been published prior to the bombing of Hiroshima; 60 percent were either ten years old or older.” YearsMadeBookTenSixPercentHundredChecksGradesQuartersClassroomFourthBombingHiroshimaFourth Grade Author:Jonathan Kozol
“Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.” ChildrenLittlesPersonsBookHomeArtistInterestWifeShareSonPercentMy WifeMeaningfulYour ChildrenFiftyMy SonMuseumsChildren's BooksIllustrators Author:Walter Dean Myers
“Whether it's viewers of the show or readers of my columns and books, I'm consistently impressed with their wit, humor and insight. That goes for about 95 percent of the audience. The other five percent are why the 'Delete' option and restraining orders were invented.” BookShowsOrderAudienceFiveReaderPercentInsightWitConsistentlyImpressedViewersColumnsRestrainingRestraining Orders Author:Richard Roeper
“According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible.” BookStreetsWallPercentArticlesJournalCookbookWall Street Journal Author:Maureen Corrigan
“The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat and toil, ten per cent joy.” BookRunningJoySongStudyTheoryTenKissingLaughterJokesPercentArgumentSweatCentsToilNinetyExamPints Author:Siobhan Dowd
“If you read one book a week, starting at the age of 5, and live to be 80, you will have read a grand total of 3,900 books, a little over one-tenth of 1 percent of the books currently in print.” IfsLittlesBookAgeWeekPercentStartingPrint Author:Lewis Buzbee
“If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read.” IfsKnowsBookWeekThousandPercentLifetimeLibraryTricksOur Time Book:Cosmos Source: Cosmos