Quotes with book-making

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  • Umberto Eco I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
    (2011)
    Umberto Eco
    Italian writer and critic (1932 - 2016)
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  • Philip Roth I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • David Cronenberg I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.
    David Cronenberg
    Canadian movie maker (1943 - )
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  • Ann Patchett I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Assata Shakur I think that the movement against the World Bank, against the globalization process that is happening, is very positive. We need a globalization, a globalization of people who are committed to social justice, to economic justice. We need a globalization of people who are committed to saving this earth, to making sure that the water is drinkable, that the air is breathable.
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • Ang Lee I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.
    Ang Lee
    Taiwanese film director, producer, and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Carol Shields I think, especially when you're in college, each book that you're reading tends to tell you who you are.
    (2011)
    Carol Shields
    American-born Canadian novelist (1935 - 2003)
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  • Arthur Hiller I thought we were making a nice little movie. That's how it was regarded by everyone else, too.
    Arthur Hiller
    Canadian-American television and film director (1923 - 2016)
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  • Toni Morrison I want to discourage you from choosing anything or making any decision simply because it is safe. Things of value seldom are.
    Toni Morrison
    American novelist, essayist, editor (1931 - 2019)
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  • Abbey Lincoln I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
    Abbey Lincoln
    American jazz vocalist, songwriter, and actress (1930 - 2010)
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  • Ann Patchett I was very influenced by The Magic Mountain. It's a book that had a huge impact on me. I loved that as a shape for a novel: put a bunch of people in a beautiful place, give them all tuberculosis, make them all stay in a fur sleeping bag for several years and see what happens.
    Ann Patchett
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Booker T. Washington I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
    Up From Slavery (1901)
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Rabbi Harold S. Kushner I would rather think of life as a good book. The further you get into it, the more it begins to come together and make sense.
    Rabbi Harold S. Kushner
    American rabbi (1935 - )
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  • Philip Roth I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.
    Philip Roth
    American Novelist (1933 - 2018)
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  • Alistair Maclean I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
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  • Ben Lovett I'd happily just stay on the road. Getting home from America, sitting in my kitchen with a cup of tea, staring out of the window is pretty depressing. I didn't have a tour manager to tell me what to do so I had to start reaching out to people and making plans. That was hard. You become very vegetable-y.
    Ben Lovett
    American recording artist, film composer, songwriter and producer (1978 - )
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  • Bart Chilton I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
    Bart Chilton
    American civil servant, consultant and author (1960 - 2019)
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  • Busta Rhymes I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.
    Busta Rhymes
    American rapper, musician, record producer and actor (1972 - )
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  • Beyonce Knowles I'm a people pleaser. I hold a lot of things in. I'm always making sure everybody is okay. I usually don't rage; I usually don't curse.
    Beyonce Knowles
    American singer and actress (1981 - )
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