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Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.
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Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running?
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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
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Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?
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Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the book I am reading.
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First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.
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From time to time, just about every 'Vanity Fair' writer has a chance to sell rights to an article or a book to Hollywood.
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
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Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
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Going public today is fraught with peril on many levels. One is earnings guidance. If you miss guidance, the stock price becomes very volatile. Short sellers can put a tremendous downward pressure on the stock.
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Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.
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Hardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words, or interred in the potter's field of the newspapers back pages.
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Heaven is as the book of God before us set, wherein to read his wondrous works.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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Honestly, so much of my book is about the best things in my life have happened since I'm 40.
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Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
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How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!
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