Quotes 181 till 200 of 489.
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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.
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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.
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I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life.
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I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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I'm always prepared for the worst. I was prepared to have the book come out, sell seven copies, and have to keep working in advertising, so it was just great that it was received so well and by such a huge audience.
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I'm concerned about a lot of serious border issues. This book is about the border reality and the struggles of the undocumented worker.
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I'm not dead. But when I am, it's likeI don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading.
De last die ze droegen (1990) -
I'm publicizing the book that's done. I'm writing the book that's in the hopper, and I'm doing a little advance research on the book to come.
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I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done.
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I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
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I've been recording audiobooks for more than 30 years. I've recorded over 500 titles on all sort of things. I'm a sort of genre-free recording artist - classics and romances, I just finished a sci-fi book, self help... just all kinds of things.
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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
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Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
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If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
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If a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.
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If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbor, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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If English is spoken in heaven. God undoubtedly employs Cranmer as his speechwriter. The angels of the lesser ministries probably use the language of the New English Bible and the Alternative Service Book for internal memos.
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If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the writer of this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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