Quotes 161 till 180 of 496.
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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.
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I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room and read a good book.
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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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I first got to know Charles in the late seventies when I wrote an article and then a book about him and I think at the time he came across as quite appealing, it was probably the height of his popularity.
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I forget a book as soon as I finish writing it, which is not always a good thing.
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I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
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I have read your book and much like it.
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I have two rules for a great book: make me think and make me smile.
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I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn't think I could read, much less write.
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I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
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I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.
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I lived through a classic publishing story. My editor was fired a month before the book came out. The editor who took it over already had a full plate. It was never advertised. We didn't get reviewed in any major outlets.
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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.
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I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book.
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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
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I read The Old Curiosity Shop before I began Blackwood Farm. I was amazed at the utter madness in that book.
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I shall write a book some day about the appropriateness of names. Geoffrey Chaucer has a ribald ring, as is proper and correct, and Alexander Pope was inevitably Alexander Pope. Colley Cibber was a silly little man without much elegance and Shelley was very Percy and very Bysshe.
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I simply went down there to catch up with an old mate of mine, who owns the place. He's the one who wrote the book on the place, but no, no movie, just a beer.
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.
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