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• Let us never accept the point of view that mysteries are written by hacks. The poorest of us shed our blood over every chapter. The best of us start from scratch with every new book.

  Raymond Chandler

  Book, Views, Blood

  Raymond Chandler, Dorothy Gardiner, Kathrine Sorley Walker (1977). “Raymond Chandler Speaking”, p.62, Univ of California Press

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• Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ?

  Fisher Ames

  Christian, Religious, Children

  Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames”, p.134

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• In his brilliant new book Pankaj Mishra reverses the long gaze of the West upon the East, showing modern history as it has been felt by the majority of the world's population from Turkey to China. These are the amazing stories of the grandfathers of today's angry Asians. Excellent!

  Orhan Pamuk

  Book, Turkeys, Long

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• One of Still Lifes many achievements is its paradoxical mix of intensity and stillness. Alexander Longs visions of landscape, identity and "History itself, a joke that no one gets" are simultaneously meditative and alert, restless and focused. This is a smart, compassionate poet. Still Life is a mesmerizing new book.

  Terrance Hayes

  Smart, Book, Achievement

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• I wrote a story for my kids. It's fiction. It's not systematic theology. It's not a new book of the Bible. It's flawed, I wrote it. All of that goes into the mix, but I love the controversy. It elevates the conversation.

  William P. Young

  Book, Kids, Fiction

  Interview with C.J. Darlington, Miriam Parker, Deena Peterson, Melissa J. Carswell, www.titletrakk.com.

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• Completing a book, it's a little like having a baby.... There's a feeling of relief and satisfaction when you get to the end. A feeling that you have brought your family, your characters, home. Then a sort of post-natal depression and then, very quickly, the horizon of a new book. The consolation that next time I will do it better.

  John le Carre

  Baby, Book, Home

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• In my new book, 'Birth,' my goal is to share the path I have traveled in the spiritual sphere and in the business and philanthropic sphere in order to reveal the essential connection between the two.

  Shari Arison

  Spiritual, Book, Order

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• As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me.

  Caitlin Moran

  Book, Ballerina, Maggie

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• When a new book appears one should read an old one.

  Winston Churchill

  Book, Should

  Wolfgang Mieder, Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

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• My role is to promote the authors image and their new books. I'm also brought on board when the author is "between books" to keep the name in front of the reading public. That's a challenging time for an author.

  Tom Robinson

  Book, Reading, Names

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• Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Book, Two, Three

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• Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Spring, Book, Writing

  "The Writing Life". Interview with Mark Matousek, www.psychologytoday.com. July 19, 2016.

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• I'm always writing new books so I don't dwell on the ones I've already done. I think that's a habit from being a newspaper guy because you're always writing columns and you can't reflect on the ones you've already done.

  Dave Barry

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Interview with McClain J., www.teenink.com.

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• Lack of consistency is the subtle but great stealer of dreams & desires. The stop & start process is what kills progress & is probably one of the greatest reasons why many don’t achieve their goals & end up living in continuous discontent, frustration & disappointment. Many buy a new book, sign up for a new program, go like crazy for a few weeks, stop & end up right back where they started. Don't let this be you!

  Darren Hardy

  Dream, Disappointment, Crazy

  FaceBook post by Darren Hardy from Jan 02, 2013

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• I always wince a little bit when I send me to each of my new books. I wince at submitting myself to my father's judgment. But, of course, he's such a fond father that he always writes back, saying it's the greatest thing ever written.

  Emma Donoghue

  Father, Book, Writing

  "Emma Donoghue's New Novel Follows "The Wonder" Of Starvation". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. September 17, 2016.

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• I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!

  Brian Jacques

  Book, Kids, Waiting In Line

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• Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Trying, Path

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.67, Vintage Canada

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• If I haven't put that on a T-shirt, I'm going to. Actually, I really don't want to write anything that can't be put on a T-shirt. Actually I'd like to write only on T-shirts. Actually, I'd like to write whole novels on T-shirts. So you guys could say, 'I'm wearing chapter 8 of Lestat's new book, that's my favorite; oh I see you're wearing chapter 6-

  Anne Rice

  Book, Writing, Guy

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• He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one I had never read before, one that surprised me with all it had to say.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Looks, Way

  Alice Hoffman (2005). “Blackbird House”, p.82, Alice Hoffman

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• On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Friday, Book, Reading

  Stephen Chbosky (2013). “The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The indexing problem changes with each new book undertaken. To meet the needs of different classes of seekers and to suit various types of books, rules entirely satisfactory in one case must be varied in the next and perhaps ignored or even reversed for a third... Indexing is a highly complex intellectual process involving the use of language in a specific and somewhat artificial way, and that it is also to a considerable extent a matter of intuition, the workings of which cannot be reduced to fixed rules. It is 'knowing what but not knowing how'.

  Hans H Wellisch

  Book, Class, Knowing

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• There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part, many Chinese secretly believe that they care more about their children and are willing to sacrifice much more for them than Westerners, who seem perfectly content to let their children turn out badly. I think it's a misunderstanding on both sides. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "But Will It All Make 'Tiger Mom' Happy?" by Janet Maslin, www.nytimes.com. January 19, 2011.

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• The breezes taste Of apple peel. The air is full Of smells to feel- Ripe fruit, old footballs, Burning brush, New books, erasers, Chalk, and such. The bee, his hive, Well-honeyed hum, And Mother cuts Chrysanthemums. Like plates washed clean With suds, the days Are polished with A morning haze.

  John Updike

  Football, Mother, Morning

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• To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.

  Will Thomas

  Book, Boxes, Bibliophiles

  Will Thomas (2004). “Some Danger Involved: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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• A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Book, Classic, Acquaintance

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4093, Delphi Classics

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