Quotes with book-friends

Quotes 141 till 160 of 1030.

  • Buchi Emecheta As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • John Donne As virtuous men pass mildly away, and whisper to their souls to go, whilst some of their sad friends do say, the breath goes now, and some say no.
    John Donne
    English poet (1572 - 1631)
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  • Brad Stone As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Carol Berg At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Avi Arad At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Jesse Owens Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.
    Jesse Owens
    American athlete (1913 - 1980)
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  • Bela Karolyi Back in Romania, always I was struggling to compete with Vladislav Rastorotsky, the great Russian coach of Lyudmila Turishcheva. He was a powerful coach, internationally. I took him like the major challenge of my life, and pretty soon I'm beating him and we are pushing each other so hard, so fierce. But out of the arena, we are friends.
    Bela Karolyi
    American gymnastics coach (1942 - )
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  • W. Clement Stone Be careful the environment you choose for it will shape you; be careful the friends you choose for you will become like them.
    W. Clement Stone
    American businessman and author (1902 - 2002)
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  • Les Brown Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Muriel Spark Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.
    Muriel Spark
    British writer (1918 - 2006)
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  • W. H. Auden Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Toni Morrison Black women have always been friends. I mean, if you didn't have each other you had nothing.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Anthony Trollope Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bernard Cornwell Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Charles Eliot Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
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  • Samuel Johnson Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Samuel Paterson Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen.
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