Book Quotes - Page 31

• I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.

  Jane Goodall

  Writing, Animal, Ten

  "Dr Jane Goodall, primatologist". Interview with Lauren Barker, theweekendedition.com.au. June 5, 2014.

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• I have a couple of thousand books in my personal library. Choosing a favorite is next to impossible. But I do love the written word.

  Tim Gunn

  Couple, Library, Next

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. February 11, 2014.

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• For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Christian, Rosary, Firsts

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• Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Dust, Ideas

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• My books do have a sort of romantic community at the end - people coming together. But on a more basic level, I always see them as being about power, in the same way that Harry Potter books are pitched to a population of young people who really have no power.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  People, Community, Together

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Obtaining

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Dad, Reading

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I think having a good agent is key. I've been with mine for ten years now, and she's very honest with me. There are a lot of times I've sent her books that were not so good because I was tired of writing, or panicked about money, and she's told me flat out, "You don't want this to be your next book. Trust me."

  Sarah Dessen

  Writing, Tired, Thinking

  Source: cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com

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• I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Benefits, Waitress

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• I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, People, Might

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

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• I try to write every day until the book is done, but the exact process depends on the story and its structure. Sometimes, if the story is more linear, I write it from beginning to end.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Writing, Trying, Stories

  Source: www.ftd.com

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• I'd be very suspicious of anybody that seems to have to move to the next level of expression. I distrust that: now I'm writing a book, now I'm being an actor. It should be a natural thing. I think it's a natural thing for you to act. But I think that people that feel that, because they've written one maybe quite beautiful love song that equips them to play Romeo, is probably misguided.

  Elvis Costello

  Beautiful, Song, Moving

  "Summit Talk". Option magazine Interview with Tom Waits, tomwaitsfan.com. July 1989.

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• My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even take the time to read a fiction book. It was all about work. When I sold it, I promised myself I would never wear a watch and only wear a suit to weddings, funerals and to meet the President.

  Mark Cuban

  Vacation, Years, Funeral

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, Facts, Habit

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• I'm very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don't want to read mine, there are others.

  Anne Lamott

  Successful, Years, Want

  Goodreads Interview, www.goodreads.com. March 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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• 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 knew about the music. I got that part but I wanted to know the business, I wanted to know about royalties, how people got paid, producers and stuff like that so I read all those books like twice.

  Juicy J

  People, Stuff, Royalty

  Source: www.deathandtaxesmag.com

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• Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as soon as we've said the best we can say, there's nothing else about us that's remotely interesting to anybody else, and we go back behind the walls. We can be intimate in books, we can be intimate in talks, but then we need time to be alone.

  Richard Bach

  Wall, Interesting, Who Cares

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

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• The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and we cannot be touched or destroyed by anything made out of atoms or destroyed at all - that light is indestructible. And we may reflect that and express that in multiple trillions of discrete ways, but nevertheless, that indestructible sense of joyful capacity to express life and express love is always there.

  Richard Bach

  Heart, Love Is, Light

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

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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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