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DAVID FARBER I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
KATE ADIE The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time...
JAMES ROLLINS![]()
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
NORMAN MAILER My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w...
TAO LIN![]()
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ...
BUCHI EMECHETA![]()
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I ac...
ANITA DESAI![]()
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ...
BUCHI EMECHETA![]()
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good bo...
GARTH NIX![]()
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
NORMAN MAILER My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
KAREN ROBARDS![]()
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not disting...
JULIA CAMERON In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I...
JANE YOLEN But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote ...
PATTY HEARST![]()
I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children w...
JAMAICA KINCAID![]()
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down.
CARLOS FUENTES The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no on...
RACHEL GIBSON![]()
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
CLARENCE DARROW![]()
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books...
AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows ...
MANIKA![]()
I will write another book if I feel like it.
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I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notic...
RICK REILLY I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid ...
EDGAR WINTER I did dramatize some of my reporting about the Klan when I wrote that book. I thought that everybody...
STETSON KENNEDY![]()
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit...
CANDACE BUSHNELL I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talkin...
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From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I...
GROUCHO MARX![]()
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I int...
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I actually didn't mind too much that Gabriel had spent the past four nights in my room. He was relat...
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In other words I not only have to read that book, I have to read everything that author wrote.If you...
JOHN IRVING![]()
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children"....
RICHARD WRIGHT![]()
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,...
BOBBY ORR![]()
I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
FRANK MCCOURT![]()
For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the...
JAN KARON![]()
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I wr...
GEORGE ORWELL It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.
THOMAS KELLER![]()
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ...
MATTHEW QUICK I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
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I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was ho...
JAMES FREY I didn't write the book in sequence. If I got stuck I started a new chapter. I didn't know where it ...
DON SILVER![]()
Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the lo...
ANAïS NIN I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
CARLENE CARTER I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't bel...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE![]()
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after w...
JANE SMILEY![]()
Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pi...
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[So far, the relief effort could be described as] somewhat organized chaos, ... Nobody wrote a book ...
GENE GREEN![]()
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive l...
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I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I ...
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TOM PETERS![]()
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle...
ALICE WALKER![]()
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I...
PAULO COELHO Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come...
BIBLE I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writin...
ROBERT KLEIN![]()
I always tell my family - and they laugh about it - but someday, I will write a vegetarian book. My ...
GUY FIERI When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f...
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If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all t...
CHARLES R. SWINDOLL Ignore donkeys and other naysayers!
MARY BUCHAN This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.
RONALD BIGGS![]()
I do feel heartsick that the inequalities, if anything, are worse today than they were when I wrote ...
JONATHAN KOZOL![]()
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three p...
NIKKI GIOVANNI![]()
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14...
AVI When I explained the premise of the book -- that it wasn't going to be a quickie kiss-and-tell but a...
JANE LEAVY In my case, if I didn't think a book was important to a student to navigate the course, I wouldn't r...
JOHN ZELEZNY![]()
When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
ANNALEE NEWITZ![]()
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ...
SOPHIE KINSELLA![]()
The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gol...
DOUGLAS BRUNT![]()
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first bo...
JACKIE COLLINS I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
LARRY HAGMAN![]()
If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one.
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If ever the book which I am not going to write is written it must be the full confession by Christen...
C.S. LEWIS I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me
WALTER RALEIGH SR. I know who you are. You wrote a book about my dad.
BRETT HULL![]()
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ...
PAULO COELHO![]()
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book.
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One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it beca...
BILLY CRYSTAL Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But t...
MARY MACLANE![]()
I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels.
DAVID BERGEN One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I...
JOHN BURNSIDE![]()
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
EMILY DICKINSON It was a terrible day. I can only console myself with the fact that if it hadn't happened I wouldn't...
DICK FRANCIS I sighed, looking down at the book in my hands. The Years. I rested my elbow against the arm of the ...
SARAH JIO![]()
I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.
GREG BEHRENDT![]()
You said, 'I'm going to be on your show,' and I was more interested in the car. People say that to m...
OPRAH WINFREY Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes...
LORD BRABAZON I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes...
LORD BRABAZON In my book, either a business grows, or it goes down. I want to be number one.
MAGGIE HARDY MAGERKO When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR![]()
My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L...
JUDITH JAMISON I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
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I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop...
ANN HOOD![]()
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as...
JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE![]()
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The best book a writer can ever write is a book that chooses its readers, not the other way around.
SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER![]()
I only know one person who was able to write a program in ink and have it run the first time. That w...
GRACE MURRAY HOPPER I wrote the book in order to give myself permission,
TERRY MCMILLAN When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn th...
AHMET ZAPPA![]()
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no id...
CYNTHIA VOIGT![]()
I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single...
BETH REVIS
DAVID FARBER I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at.
KATE ADIE The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time...
JAMES ROLLINS
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. NORMAN MAILER My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books w...
TAO LIN
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ... BUCHI EMECHETA
Usually a feeling of disappointment follows the book, because what I hoped to write is not what I ac... ANITA DESAI
The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ... BUCHI EMECHETA
If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good bo... GARTH NIX
When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. NORMAN MAILER My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
KAREN ROBARDS
When it was suggested that I write a memoir I said, 'I'm not old enough. I'm not disting... JULIA CAMERON In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. I...
JANE YOLEN But even before that, in 1980 I went so far as to write a book about what had happened. And I wrote ...
PATTY HEARST
I can write anywhere. I actually wrote more than I ever did when I had small children. My children w... JAMAICA KINCAID
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. CARLOS FUENTES The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no on...
RACHEL GIBSON
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. CLARENCE DARROW
I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books... AUGUSTEN BURROUGHS I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows ...
MANIKA
I will write another book if I feel like it. JAMES HERRIOT
I write the story that nobody reads. Someday, I'm going to write it in German to see if anyone notic... RICK REILLY I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid ...
EDGAR WINTER I did dramatize some of my reporting about the Klan when I wrote that book. I thought that everybody...
STETSON KENNEDY
I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a lit... CANDACE BUSHNELL I don't want to ever write a book that seems like it's pandering to younger people or talkin...
RANSOM RIGGS
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I... GROUCHO MARX
From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I convulsed with laughter. Someday I int... GROUCHO MARX
I actually didn't mind too much that Gabriel had spent the past four nights in my room. He was relat... JOHN COREY WHALEY
In other words I not only have to read that book, I have to read everything that author wrote.If you... JOHN IRVING
I had written a book of short stories which was published under the title of "Uncle Tom's Children".... RICHARD WRIGHT
I didn't want to do a book just to do a book. I wanted to do a book that, if you should read it,... BOBBY ORR
I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book. FRANK MCCOURT
For a very long time, I wrote a book a year, and was eager and willing to do it, to put bread on the... JAN KARON
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I wr... GEORGE ORWELL It's one thing you aspire to: someday, you'll be able to write a book.
THOMAS KELLER
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles ... MATTHEW QUICK I thought I would write a love letter. But then, I wrote a book." - Suzy Davies, on "Johari's Window
SUZY DAVIES
I was a bad guy. If I was gonna write a book that was true, and I was gonna write a book that was ho... JAMES FREY I didn't write the book in sequence. If I got stuck I started a new chapter. I didn't know where it ...
DON SILVER
Don't wait for it," I said. "Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. Create. And then the lo... ANAïS NIN I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
CARLENE CARTER I don't believe a committee can write a book. It can, oh, govern a country, perhaps, but I don't bel...
ARNOLD TOYNBEE
I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after w... JANE SMILEY
Someday, when he was good enough, he would ask her to write them in a book and let him do all the pi... KATHERINE PATERSON
[So far, the relief effort could be described as] somewhat organized chaos, ... Nobody wrote a book ... GENE GREEN
If I write a book where all I've ever experienced is success, people won't take a positive l... SONIA SOTOMAYOR
I wrote this book, '2030,' and I was careful in the book not to overdo the future because I ... ALBERT BROOKS
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i... TOM PETERS
I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself actually writing until I was in colle... ALICE WALKER
Once I found this possibility to use Twitter and Facebook and my blog to connect to my readers, I... PAULO COELHO Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come...
BIBLE I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writin...
ROBERT KLEIN
I always tell my family - and they laugh about it - but someday, I will write a vegetarian book. My ... GUY FIERI When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f...
MADISON PETTIS
If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all t... CHARLES R. SWINDOLL Ignore donkeys and other naysayers!
MARY BUCHAN This book that I just wrote is going to be coming out very soon to Australia.
RONALD BIGGS
I do feel heartsick that the inequalities, if anything, are worse today than they were when I wrote ... JONATHAN KOZOL
I want to be clear about this. If you wrote from experience, you'd get maybe one book, maybe three p... NIKKI GIOVANNI
Writing takes a lot of patience. It usually takes me a year to write a book. One time, it took me 14... AVI When I explained the premise of the book -- that it wasn't going to be a quickie kiss-and-tell but a...
JANE LEAVY In my case, if I didn't think a book was important to a student to navigate the course, I wouldn't r...
JOHN ZELEZNY
When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters. ANNALEE NEWITZ
When I wrote my first book, 'The Tennis Party', my overriding concern was that I didn't ... SOPHIE KINSELLA
The last book I read before I wrote my first book - 'Ghosts of Manhattan' - was 'The Gol... DOUGLAS BRUNT
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first bo... JACKIE COLLINS I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
LARRY HAGMAN
If ever I were to read a comic book, it might be this one. SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR
If ever the book which I am not going to write is written it must be the full confession by Christen... C.S. LEWIS I can't write a book commensurate with Shakespeare, but I can write a book by me
WALTER RALEIGH SR. I know who you are. You wrote a book about my dad.
BRETT HULL
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school. I ... PAULO COELHO
It feels good to read book. But it is grander to write a book. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA
One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it beca... BILLY CRYSTAL Well, if I am not vulgar, neither is my book. I wrote myself. Suggestiveness is always vulgar. But t...
MARY MACLANE
I always have a book that I use that somehow inspires my novels. DAVID BERGEN One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I...
JOHN BURNSIDE
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. EMILY DICKINSON It was a terrible day. I can only console myself with the fact that if it hadn't happened I wouldn't...
DICK FRANCIS I sighed, looking down at the book in my hands. The Years. I rested my elbow against the arm of the ...
SARAH JIO
I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book. GREG BEHRENDT
You said, 'I'm going to be on your show,' and I was more interested in the car. People say that to m... OPRAH WINFREY Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has...
PATRICIA MACLACHLAN I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes...
LORD BRABAZON I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes...
LORD BRABAZON In my book, either a business grows, or it goes down. I want to be number one.
MAGGIE HARDY MAGERKO When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I...
BALTASAR KORMAKUR
My wonderful editor, Jackie Onassis, asked me to write a book that I wanted to write. I said, 'L... JUDITH JAMISON I didn't write this song. Someone was talking in a room. I just wrote down everything they said.
JEFF AMENT
I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... ANN HOOD
When I really want to learn about something, I write a book on it. Then the real research begins, as... JOSEPH CHILTON PEARCE You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE
You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown... MADELEINE L'ENGLE The best book a writer can ever write is a book that chooses its readers, not the other way around.
SEYMOUR NIGHTWEAVER
I only know one person who was able to write a program in ink and have it run the first time. That w... GRACE MURRAY HOPPER I wrote the book in order to give myself permission,
TERRY MCMILLAN When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn th...
AHMET ZAPPA
I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no id... CYNTHIA VOIGT
I wrote a book. It sucked. I wrote nine more books. They sucked, too. Meanwhile, I read every single... BETH REVIS
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I'm tired of wasting letters when punctuation will do, period. 
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It's not the tools that you have faith in - tools are just tools. They work, or they don't w... 
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. 
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More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform. 
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People carry their secrets in hidden places, not on their faces. They carry suffering on their faces... 
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We're so terrified of death in Western culture that we have to make up a myth of an afterlife. I... 
Who makes decisions for families across America? Should it be a family with their doctor, or should ... 
I'd have to say I'm most proud of my mentoring camp that I do in Dallas every year for one h... 
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As much as I'd like to think and as much as people mistakenly think my audience is blue collar p... 
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Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Sax... 
I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars. 
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What we want is a healthy canopy. If we go in there and say, 'Just plant a bunch of trees,' they'll ... 
When civility is illusory, war is inevitable. 
The word ‘monster’ [monstrum] derives from ‘demonstrare,’ meaning to show or to demonstrate.... 