I thought, well I can do that. I couldn't be bothered writing a book review, because I'd have to read the book, I haven't got time to read a whole book for a fifty dollar write-up.
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Related Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about i... TOM PETERS Write a book you'd like to read. If you wouldn't read it, why would anybody else? Don't ... HILARY MANTEL I write so that people will read what I write. I don't want to write a book that a thousand peop... ANN HOOD I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher... DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado. DANAI GURIRA I like the quiet it takes to pursue an idea the way I pursued 'Hamilton,' but I couldn't... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA I didn't read the book on how to be a well-adjusted celebrity. SHIA LABEOUF I would love to be in 'The Hunger Games.' I'm one of the few people who haven't read... CASSI THOMSON Sometimes I get to see a movie that's adapted from a book that I haven't heard about or that... TATIANA DE ROSNAY When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write. NORMAN MAILER I struggled to kick the habit - I would make a decision to give up smoking, but it was hard. I could... MAHESH BABU I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't k... JACKIE COLLINS I wasn't one of those kids who grew up wanting to write or who read a particular book and though... GAYLE FORMAN I'm the female Bob Woodward! If I were a liberal, I couldn't write another book. I'd be ... ANN COULTER 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 like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of l... RICHARD DAWKINS I never read detective novels. I started out in graduate school writing a more serious book. Right a... JAMES PATTERSON Never think you can't do something. I definitely never thought I could write a book, and even af... CONNOR FRANTA I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a... CHARLIE TROTTER In other words I not only have to read that book, I have to read everything that author wrote.If you... JOHN IRVING Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to... VIVEK WADHWA I didn't follow the whole 'X-Men' story because it got too complicated. I'd pick up ... AARON STANFORD I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book... WARREN G. HARDING I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book. CALVIN TRILLIN Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. g... BERNARD CORNWELL With the 'Hazelwood High' trilogy, I wasn't sure I was writing a trilogy. I would just w... SHARON DRAPER I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reaso... PATRICK DUFFY You’re too much”, he said. “You talk too much, love too much, feel too much. And I don’t kno... A BOOK I'LL NEVER WRITE As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if ... TODD BURPO Girls read a boy book, but boys don't necessarily want to read a girl book. SHARON DRAPER A good day is one where I can not just read a book, but write a review of it. Maybe today I'll b... CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, whic... CHIWETEL EJIOFOR I love 'Breaking Bad.' I'd watch Bryan Cranston read the phone book, for days. JOEL KINNAMAN The first comic I can remember ever reading was a 'Fantastic Four' issue that my dad bought ... CHARLES SOULE I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I... NANCY MITFORD Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you ca... THEO JAMES I'd read books in Russian, and they would take me forever. I wanted to write a book that would l... IAN FRAZIER I don't read for amusement, I read for enlightenment. I do a lot of reviewing, so I have a stead... JOYCE CAROL OATES I expected a lot of flak over my new book, '50 Things Liberals Love to Hate' from, well, lib... MIKE GALLAGHER I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. VIRGINIA WOOLF I got a call on a Sunday. 'Do you want to do 'The Godfather?' I thought they were kiddin... ALBERT S. RUDDY When I read the 'Twilight' book, I didn't see it as fantasy. I saw it as a love story. CATHERINE HARDWICKE I do have a television over there - it was a gift - but I never turn it on. I'd rather read a bo... SAM CRAWFORD For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I... KATE GRENVILLE I don't think I've ever read poetry, ever. I'm not really book-smart. EMINEM I'd love to do an action film. I'd love to do a film based on a book series; I love to read ... KATHERINE MCNAMARA I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time... EMMA ROBERTS I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems b... JESSYE NORMAN There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice... CAROLINA HERRERA I realised I'd never climb Everest but thought I could still write a book. SARA PARETSKY I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice&... BARRY SCHWARTZ Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that... JOSHUA FERRIS When I read period material - and it ain't on Google - I am always alert for that one incredible... ALAN FURST I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for... JOE MENO I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. TIM VINE I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read. KATE MORTON It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoy... SAMMY HAGAR I looked back at the years since I'd left college and thought of the list of things I'd have... SIMON TOYNE I have read every book in the 'Dune' series and every Anne Rice book. LORRAINE TOUSSAINT I used to be an editor and I was editing young adult series. I didn't really like the books that... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a boo... GEORGE MURRAY When I write, I have a sort of secret kinship of readers in all countries who don't know each ot... TEJU COLE I once tried to write a novel about revenge. It's the only book I didn't finish. I couldn... MAEVE BINCHY No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'... ADAM CAROLLA I don't like to read things that people write about me. I'd rather read what kids have to sa... DAVID BOWIE I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt. BENNY HINN I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences. LARRY HAGMAN The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book ... BUCHI EMECHETA Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actu... CHRIS MATTHEWS If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.'... DAN BROWN It was actually Peter's idea that I should make the film. He called me in the very beginning, an... BILLE AUGUST The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time... JAMES ROLLINS When I was really little, my favorite book was 'The BFG'. I read it - my teacher in, like, f... MADISON PETTIS I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understan... FRANK OZ I love to write a book out of questions; in fact, I think it's the only way my writing can opera... KATE GRENVILLE The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a ... MARTHA STEWART If I couldn't read, I couldn't live. DOUGLAS SIRK There's so much excellent new music around that I can't afford to buy it all and I haven'... MALCOLM WILSON Writing 'Native Guard,' I didn't know I was working on a single book. I began writing th... NATASHA TRETHEWEY I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told m... ED EMBERLEY When I see kids standing next to their mothers at book signings, clutching a copy of 'Forever,... JUDY BLUME You read a book, write a detailed review as proof you've read it, and they give you a badge. Tha... STORMZY 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read. MARK TWAIN I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years. BARRY SONNENFELD To say that I'm going to veto something that I haven't read is just - or sign something that... DOUG DUCEY I don't do a comic book thinking there is a movie. I just want it to be as good a comic book as ... FRANK MILLER I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 yea... STANLEY KUBRICK My inspiration for writing is all the wonderful books that I read as a child and that I still read. ... PATRICIA MACLACHLAN When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big ... JUDY BLUME I couldn't have known 'Crank' was going to be published, let alone become a big hit. Tha... ELLEN HOPKINS The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain'... ABRAHAM LINCOLN I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until ... GREGORY MAGUIRE The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Li... GORE VIDAL It had to be a book that held my attention and kept me wanting to read it; when my husband finished ... RACHEL TUCKER I have turned off Google Alerts and don't Google my name or my pen names. I don't go on mess... J. A. KONRATH Predictability is boring! I want a book to take me someplace I haven't been before, show me sigh... THERESE FOWLER My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 ye... TERRY PRATCHETT I didn't want to write a book that suggested that magic good/technology bad. DAVID LISS I read that book, 'Lonesome Dove,' and I told my agent that they were gonna make a miniserie... BARRY CORBIN I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I gues... MEGHAN TRAINOR
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EDDIE VEDDER When it comes to grunge or even just Seattle, I think there was one band that made the definitive mu... EDDIE VEDDER Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward. EDDIE VEDDER It's an art to live with pain... mix the light into gray. EDDIE VEDDER Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall. EDDIE VEDDER The love received is the love that is saved. EDDIE VEDDER Caffeine. The gateway drug. EDDIE VEDDER I still love radio, but TV is also an awesome platform. EDDIE TRUNK I've had the privilege of meeting and/or interviewing most of the top metal and hard rock artist... EDDIE TRUNK I want to be the Letterman of metal. I want five nights a week, Monday to Friday, 11 to 12, live. I ... EDDIE TRUNK My books are personal: I'm not saying they're the Bible of music. EDDIE TRUNK I'm completely open about the fact that I don't love every genre of metal. I like what I lik... 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EDDIE TRUNK They're not shooting me for deserting the United Stated Army - thousands of guys have done that.... EDDIE SLOVIK I'm sorry I didn't go to jail for six months, then I know you could come to see me anytime y... EDDIE SLOVIK I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble. EDDIE SLOVIK Army life don't agree with me. EDDIE SLOVIK The only luck I had in my life was when I married you. I knew it wouldn't last because I was too... EDDIE SLOVIK I've made up my mind. I'll take my court martial. EDDIE SLOVIK I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going. EDDIE SLOVIK Everything happens to me. I've never had a streak of luck in my life. EDDIE SLOVIK Honest honey, I feel like crying every time I sit down to write you a letter... I am so unlucky. EDDIE SLOVIK Sports of every sort had always appealed to me. EDDIE RICKENBACKER Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies. EDDIE RICKENBACKER I am not a labor hater. 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EDDIE RICKENBACKER I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know. EDDIE RICKENBACKER Never count on the crowd to take care of you. EDDIE RICKENBACKER I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through. EDDIE RICKENBACKER Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared. EDDIE RICKENBACKER My first film, 'Like Minds,' was with Toni Colette, who was extraordinary. I mean it was bas... EDDIE REDMAYNE What I love about acting is trying things and screwing up, then trying again, all in this protected ... EDDIE REDMAYNE As someone who gets nervous in silences, I spill words rather than really think. EDDIE REDMAYNE They're such hierarchical things, film sets, they're sort of mini societies. Often they'... EDDIE REDMAYNE I think all actors have a similar deal. You want some people who understand. Although it looks great... EDDIE REDMAYNE When you start out acting, you dream of getting an agent and getting a job. For years, you audition ... EDDIE REDMAYNE If gender is on a spectrum, where one finds oneself is completely unique. EDDIE REDMAYNE Ladies and babies, and mortgages, for that matter, can all wait. Acting has done a strange thing to ... EDDIE REDMAYNE And you can't complain about kissing Emma Watson. Isn't that what everyone in the world want... EDDIE REDMAYNE I have this horrific thing where I'm really bad with names and faces. I have an appalling memory... EDDIE REDMAYNE As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about su... EDDIE REDMAYNE I'm trying to buy a house and set some sense of roots because otherwise you're constantly ch... EDDIE REDMAYNE If I do a film and have to get naked, that tends to dictate how often I go to the gym. Acting in ... EDDIE REDMAYNE I had never been to a fashion show before going to the Burberry show last month. It was an extraordi... EDDIE REDMAYNE What an extraordinary thing it can be, love, how it will not defined by gender, by sexuality, by rac... EDDIE REDMAYNE A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfl... EDDIE REDMAYNE That's the reality of my life - I do normal things and then get to go to film festivals and wear... EDDIE REDMAYNE Most actors hate watching their own films because all you can see is the glaring mistakes, your own ... EDDIE REDMAYNE I always try to describe making movies like summer camp, or some holiday where you spend all day, ev... EDDIE REDMAYNE I did an interview once where I was asked who I found attractive and I went on about cartoons and Na... EDDIE REDMAYNE I am through with baseball forever. I have my farm and my home and enough to take care of me, so why... EDDIE PLANK There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to ... EDDIE PLANK You're either with me or you're not. And if you're not, you're out. EDDIE PEREZ At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that. EDDIE PEREZ Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed. EDDIE PEREZ My energy level has not changed. EDDIE PEREZ A lapse in judgment is not a crime. EDDIE PEREZ Pouring concrete on land you don't own is called a calculated risk, if you don't pour you lo... EDDIE PEREZ If you haven't understood the world you're living in, it's impossible to think that the ... EDDIE OBENG We solve last year's problems without thinking about the future. EDDIE OBENG We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no l... EDDIE OBENG In the 21st century, somebody or something has changed the rules about how our world works. EDDIE OBENG I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball. EDDIE MURRAY And I tell you that's one of the reasons why I didn't have the friendships with the media, m... EDDIE MURRAY And like I said, I appreciate my older brothers because they would not allow me to win. They made me... EDDIE MURRAY I'm now the hitting the instructor with the Cleveland Indians. EDDIE MURRAY I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseba... EDDIE MURRAY It makes you feel at home when you can talk to somebody and really talk about anything. EDDIE MURRAY Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here. EDDIE MURRAY Baseball is a team game. EDDIE MURRAY No one was more important than my mom and dad. I know they are watching from a place up in heaven he... EDDIE MURRAY When I signed a contract, I was here to play 162 games. EDDIE MURRAY And, you know, you try and preach to them there's more to this game than just walking up to home... EDDIE MURRAY For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning. EDDIE MURRAY I learned life from some good teachers. EDDIE MURRAY When Ted Williams was here, inducted into the Hall of Fame 37 years ago, he said he must have earned... EDDIE MURRAY You win as a team, you lose as a team, you also do so many things together. EDDIE MURRAY Growing up, I liked all the stuff that everyone else was listening to, like Motown, but the biggest ... EDDIE MURPHY As you get older, you get different, and I'm a mushier, softer person as I get older. EDDIE MURPHY I'm a comedian who got into movies, so I don't really think of myself as an actor. EDDIE MURPHY I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have t... EDDIE MURPHY I had a band before I did standup - I've always done music. I got known for being funny, and tha... EDDIE MURPHY I love the Beatles. EDDIE MURPHY I started out as a stand-up comedian. And that's what I'm most comfortable doing. EDDIE MURPHY I'm not performing anymore. I reveal myself to the audience. I reveal myself. That's the sho... EDDIE MURPHY I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exce... EDDIE MURPHY There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I ... EDDIE MURPHY From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make... EDDIE MURPHY After all these years, I've done well and I'm cool. I feel comfortable in my skin, I've ... EDDIE MURPHY If you're involved in with something that's original, you know, you'll always go back an... EDDIE MURPHY I keep telling people I'll make movies until I'm fifty and then I'll go and do something... EDDIE MURPHY The studios gotta start making more stuff where black folks get quality stuff. But I can't trip ... EDDIE MURPHY If I don't die in a plane crash or something, this country has a rare opportunity to watch a gre... EDDIE MURPHY I'm relaxed about my career. I've been making movies for over 20 years, so I've earned a... EDDIE MURPHY The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone's advice. EDDIE MURPHY I only want to do what I really want to do; otherwise, I'm content to sit here and play my guita... EDDIE MURPHY I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when th... EDDIE MURPHY Being on 'SNL' gives you a unique experience that almost no one else has. It's like Harv... EDDIE MURPHY However wack anyone thought 'Whatzupwitu' was, there's not a lot of people that have foo... EDDIE MURPHY The thing about kids is that they express emotion. They don't hold back. If they want to cry, th... EDDIE MURPHY I'm 42 and the age of a guy who has kids, so I guess I'm playing right where I'm suppose... EDDIE MURPHY I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make somethin... EDDIE MURPHY I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it. EDDIE MURPHY I'm younger than Rod Stewart and Bruce Springsteen, but I'm still getting up there in age. EDDIE MONEY I've always loved the blues, John Lee Hooker, Janis Joplin, Hendrix. EDDIE MONEY I love L.A. for the beach and stuff, that's the reason I live here. EDDIE MONEY I still do a bit of this and a bit of that. Some brews and there's nothing wrong with a bud or t... EDDIE MONEY It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can. EDDIE MONEY I'm not trying to stay in the same place and I'm not trying to compete with what's curre... EDDIE MONEY To me, the glass is always half full, never half empty. EDDIE MONEY Comedy is a comfortable yet challenging place for me. I will always feel an inner pressure to do my ... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK Anytime you spend 15 or 16 hours a day with someone, five days a week for six months, that's mor... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK I just want to be able to have fun, make a living, feed my family and create something that I'm ... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonha... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK When I decided to be an actor, years ago, I just said, 'Look, I'm not going to do this unles... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK You know, I Google search my own name because I'm so self-obsessed! EDDIE MCCLINTOCK I grew up wrestling and playing football where, at the end of the game, you have a score and you'... EDDIE MCCLINTOCK I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten ye... EDDIE MATHEWS It's only a hitch when you're in a slump. When you're hitting the ball its called rhythm... EDDIE MATHEWS My business is not to show anybody anything; my job is just to do it. EDDIE MARSAN I had a good job as a printer in the East End. Before the unions destroyed it, that job was very luc... EDDIE MARSAN I listen to a lot of jazz. I'm a big Sinatra geek. I love Chet Baker. EDDIE MARSAN I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny - I looked like me. EDDIE MARSAN As children, we all hold on to the myth of omnipotence. Comics are successful because kids identify ... EDDIE MARSAN I've got four kids to feed and a wife to provide for. It's a worry but a great responsibilit... EDDIE MARSAN Different races never fazed me because coming from Bethnal Green, I'd been around people of diff... EDDIE MARSAN I'm the guy who plays human beings. I understand why the characters are doing what they're d... EDDIE MARSAN With a face like mine, I'm never going to play a character who conquers the universe, I'm go... EDDIE MARSAN I'm not one of these actors who can make a bad script good. Some actors, a script can be terribl... EDDIE MARSAN I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, ... EDDIE MARSAN What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. ... EDDIE MARSAN I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East E... EDDIE MARSAN In my family, there was no celebration of ignorance. They'd come and see Chekhov or Shakespeare.... EDDIE MARSAN I always define egotistical thoughts as the thoughts I think other people have of me. EDDIE MARSAN I've got four kids - I unblock a toilet every day. EDDIE MARSAN As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming a... EDDIE MARSAN