Quotes 361 till 380 of 1030.
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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 like looking nice, but I always put comfort over fashion. I don't find thin girls attractive; be happy and healthy. I've never had a problem with the way I look. I'd rather have lunch with my friends than go to a gym.
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I live quietly at home among my family and friends.
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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 everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
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I maintain that, if everyone knew what others said about him, there would not be four friends in the world.
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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 need physics more than friends.
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I never read a book before reviewing it; it prejudices a man so.
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I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
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I play [golf] with friends sometimes, but there are never friendly games.
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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 still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
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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 her friends were worried that the bulimia might come back, about some psychological slide, and she was given breathing space to some extent by the media as much as she ever has been.
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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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I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
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