Book Quotes - Page 23

• The books are recordings; that's what they have to be, recordings of the writing. They have to be happening to me.

  Tony Burgess

  Writing, Happenings

  "The book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. August 31, 2015.

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• My agent is so totally honest, which is just what every writer needs. She won't let me sell a crappy book, even if I want to.

  Sarah Dessen

  Want, Needs, Agents

  Interview with Claire Zulkey, www.wbez.org. January 13, 2012.

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• As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Holiday, Drs

  "The lady and the chimps". Wanderlust Travel Magazine Interview, www.wanderlust.co.uk. April 10, 2009.

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• All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Pastor, Sermons

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.

  Tom Robbins

  Witty, Strong, Real

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• My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Artist, Firsts, Changing My Life

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal.

  Ray Bradbury

  Real, Writing, Fiction

  Source: alibi.com

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• Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Letters, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.

  Stephen King

  Cutting, Play, Heaven

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I don't make movies. I don't feel that I have to have artistic control. Part of this comes from the fact that the book lives on no matter what Hollywood does to your novel in terms of a film. Now, you try to be careful who you allow to do your film because nobody wants their novel to become a turkey movie. But, on the other hand, it is a crapshot anyway, because even the best people can make a bad film.

  Stephen King

  Hands, Turkeys, People

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Purpose, Fields

  Source: zenhabits.net

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• My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Way, Problem

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.

  Richard Bach

  Lost

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Kids, World

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.

  Stephen King

  Spring, Writing, Ideas

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Daughter, Father

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Trying, Done, Clubs

  Source: wwd.com

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• I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Writing, College

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Dialogue

  Source: americanlibrariesmagazine.org

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• All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

  Zig Ziglar

  Meaningful, Strong, Character

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• Most books are bought by women.

  Gloria Steinem

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

  Alice Walker

  Important, Disrespectful, Mediums

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Thinking, Play, Bed

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

  Milton Friedman

  Wall, Fall, Progress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.

  Art Spiegelman

  Reading, Thinking, Rocks

  "Art Spiegelman’s Life in the 'Shadow of Maus'". Interview with Eric Wuestewald, www.motherjones.com. January 6, 2014.

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