Book Quotes - Page 35

• Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.

  Kate Grenville

  Way, Needs, Advantage

  Source: www.compulsivereader.com

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• I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

  Sefi Atta

  Fun, Writing, Years

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• I couldn't decide on a title for my first novel and my editor came up with Everything Good Will Come. After that, I thought I should name my own books.A Bit of Difference seems just right.

  Sefi Atta

  Editors, Names, Differences

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• People often say to me now, "Your work changed my life." I'm sure that's an exaggeration, but they say it had a big effect on them and enabled them to change. I'm not sure I believe that a book will cause someone to change.

  Alix Kates Shulman

  Believe, People, Causes

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• We are free, in the West, to choose; we have real choice to pursue our own desires; we are free to set the goals and contents of our own lives; the West is made up of individuals who are free to decide what meaning to give to their lives-in short the glory of the West is that life is an open book,[1] while under Islam, life is a closed book, everything has been decided for you: God and the Holy Law set limits on the possible agenda of your life.

  Ibn Warraq

  Real, Law, Goal

  Ibn Warraq (2010). “Virgins? What Virgins?: And Other Essays”

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• If a book has a predictable storyline or familiar situations, there's little satisfaction for me in writing it. A woman deciding which man she'll spend her life with? I've read that story a million times, but a stepmother deciding which of her children she'll save in a freak accident? Now that's a challenge.

  Jillian Medoff

  Children, Writing, Men

  Source: bookmagnet.wordpress.com

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• The inspiration is all in the script, in the text. So whatever it is, either it is a film or a book to be illustrated, anything. Everything you need to know is in the text. So the thing is trying to find right tone and voice, the right style, the right way of expressing the emotions in a story or in the location of the story, but it is all in the text.

  Dave McKean

  Inspiration, Voice, Style

  Source: www.thestorymint.com

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• I think the two jobs I dreamed of doing as a teenager were comic book artist and record cover illustrator. Maybe film director was in the mix as well, but that seemed to be an impossible mountain to climb.

  Dave McKean

  Jobs, Teenager, Artist

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Every book I think will be my last one because after finishing I have the sense that I've said all I have to say, but I always seem to find a new way of repeating myself.

  Gustavo Perez Firmat

  Thinking, Finishing, Way

  Source: www.gustavoperezfirmat.com

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• Titles are very hard. Sometimes a title comes before I start to write the book, but often I finish the book and I still don't have a title. I have to go through the book again and then sometimes I hope a title jumps out at me from what I've written.

  Eve Bunting

  Writing, Titles, Sometimes

  Source: www.scholastic.com

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• I have always wanted to do a book about actors because I think that the death of a character is a tremendously emotional experience.

  Scott Cohen

  Character, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: twoaspirinsandacomedy.com

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• The cool thing about having a book is that it takes on its own life. Once it's in the world, you can't follow it. You'd have to have a pretty fantastic surveillance system to track its migration.

  Cate Marvin

  Track, World, Migration

  Source: www.redividerjournal.org

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• One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and use them wisely. When you give them to fictional people and a fictional story, their purpose and their meaning changes, so it's best to see the version in the book as fiction entirely, wherever it started out.

  Nick Earls

  Real, Character, People

  Source: www.stephbowe.com

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• The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the same life; they belong to the same social class, the same milieu, they have the same experiences. Once you read one of those books, you have read them all. And this is a problem.

  Pascal Bruckner

  Class, Personality, Today

  Source: www.mantlethought.org

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• What's important about the artists we learn about in art history and see in all the art books is that they have somehow pushed the boundaries of what people think art is or should be, and that's how they've made their work relevant. That's what I'm trying to figure out for myself.

  Kadir Nelson

  Art, Thinking, People

  "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.

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• The nice thing about programming at the RDF level is that you can just say, I'll ask for all the books. You can ask for all the shelves. You can ask for a given shelf whether a book was on it. And you're not worrying so much about the underlying syntax.

  Tim Berners-Lee

  Nice, Worry, Syntax

  Interview with Scott Laningham, www.ibm.com. August 22, 2006.

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• You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.

  Ethan Canin

  Smart, World, Publicity

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.

  Ethan Canin

  Art, Hate, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Books, Manuals, Directives, Regulations. The geometries that circumscribe your working life draw norrower and norrower until nothing fits inside them anymore.

  Lord Byron

  Regulation, Fit, Geometry

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• I believe scripture is not just resilient but rebellious against its abuse by people. Scripture says it refuses to be used in that way for long. That is why the gospel that has been used by the oppressors is the same gospel that liberated the oppressed: They were reading the same book. Something in the DNA of Christian faith and in the Bible agitates against that kind of misuse.

  Allan Boesak

  Christian, Believe, Reading

  Source: reflections.yale.edu

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• When I'm 75 years old, I want to say that I chased my dream. I didn't let other people's opinions dictate what I have in my book of my life.

  Thomas Jones

  Dream, Years, People

  "Meet Being Mary Jane's 'Cutty Buddy,' Thomas Q. Jones". Interview with Demetria Lucas D'Oyley, www.theroot.com. February 24, 2015.

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• Most people don't realize the many steps that a pop-up goes through. There are a variety of "Dummies" (the sketch phase of the book). Then finally the pencil "dummy", then the finished art which is like painting pieces of a jig saw puzzle.

  Tomie dePaola

  Art, People, Pieces

  Source: www.thechildrensbookreview.com

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• Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there.

  Gabriel Ba

  Careers, Germany, Brazil

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• Books keep the mind active. Without them, complacency is a huge danger.

  Carl Deuker

  Mind, Complacency, Danger

  Source: www.sjboysread.org

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• What a person loves at 20 may seem stupid at 35. That doesn't mean the book was stupid, it means that the time when it spoke to the reader is past. So . . . I'm cautious about rereading favorite books. I hate to spoil the good feelings they created. Keeping the good feelings is more important than rereading the book. Moving on is a good thing.

  Carl Deuker

  Hate, Stupid, Moving

  Source: www.sjboysread.org

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