Quotes 321 till 340 of 496.
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
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Some Sundays, I read it quickly - other Sundays, I savor it. I generally spend most of my time in 'The New York Times Book Review,' 'Sunday Business,' 'Sunday Review,' and 'The New York Times Magazine.' I turn all the other pages, only stopping when I find a headline that interests me.
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Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... 'How to Build a Boat.'
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Sometimes I read a book with pleasure, and detest the author.
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.
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Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.
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That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
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The age of the book is almost gone.
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The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ''eternity''; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book - what everyone else does not say in a book.
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The art of the three-minute song is more like journalism than writing a big 400-page book. You want to be brief, you want to make sense right yen and there. And sometimes that takes a bit of work.
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The average actor might only be able to book six to eight guest star jobs a year - that would be high. So when you start doing the math, you can't live on that in Los Angeles.
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The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
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The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.
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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.
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The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible.
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The book begins and ends with the visits to give the impression of a tunnel into their ancestors and family history. I believe in going backwards into the past - I felt I was digging a tunnel back to the past.
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