- Nov 07, 2020
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- Nothing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century.
- Nov 07, 2020
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Obviously there's a lot more to a TV show than just a book... I think adaptations are a bit tricky for the screenwriters because they're worried about upsetting the author.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so grateful to everyone who has bought a copy of 'Girl Online.' I love that so many of my viewers are enjoying the book!
- Art
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- Nov 07, 2020
I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The challenge with 'Watchmen' is making sure that the ideas that were in the book got into the movie. That was my biggest stretch. I wanted people to watch the movie and get it. It's one of those things where, over time, it has happened more.
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a lot of space as a kid. My mother worked with human rights for the government, and my dad had a book publishing company, but they weren't really musical.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was like a dream come true for me. When you write the book, it's still intimate. It might have been a best-seller but it's still my story, as I wrote it. The moment we or they make a movie, it's not my story anymore. There's a lot of letting go involved in the process.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, I'm a fan, and 'The Lost City of Z' has been my inspiration. Percy Fawcett was one of my heroes, and I loved the book and the film. I was lost in the same area that Fawcett had explored, and I can identify with his sense of passion and obsession, and I definitely see the romance in searching for lost treasure.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my home country, there was a little shop with old books, but it was really in the countryside. You couldn't find English books. I found this very avant-garde American art book that had information about Georgia O'Keeffe. I was very much impressed by her.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020
The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
- Reading
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- Nov 07, 2020
Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My next book - each one while I'm working on it - dances in my mind and thrills me at every turn. If it didn't, why would I write it?
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Fault' became the book everybody and their mother had to read, and 'Paper Towns' is one that's beloved, but it's a bit of a smaller book.
- Coffee Shops
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think one day I can make a book about coffee shops in Hong Kong. I spent almost most of my time in coffee shops, in different coffee shops.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a terrible fear of not being normal - of not seeming normal. So I went to the library and read every psychology book I could find. Anything about how normal people behave.
- Beginning
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every beginning is only a sequel, after all, and the book of events is always open halfway through.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book.
- Great Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was in the Army, I read a book by Adlai Stevenson. He said law was as noble as saving a person's life. So at one point, I felt that way too.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been campaigning like anything for restoring these changes. For 27 years. I wrote a book about it, well, a portion of the book was devoted to these scenes and why they should have been in the movie.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to love 'The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe,' and I can still remember listening to them before I would fall asleep. I can remember the first ten minutes of the book perfectly, but whether I knew the rest of it was slightly more dicey.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems like they make every comic book into a film. 'Watchmen' is my favorite of all time.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tolkien fans reacted so strongly to 'Lord Of The Rings' as a franchise because it stayed true; the heart of it was true to the book.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always liked getting away with just a little bit of what you're not supposed to. Like my first book, Billy's Booger, got me in trouble with the principal's office.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first book I ever wrote was in fourth grade and it was called 'Billy's Booger.' It was an autobiographical piece about a kid who was really bad at math.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is a book that is written by crazy people!
- He
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- Nov 07, 2020
The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
- Humble
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- Nov 07, 2020
A novel ensures that we can look before and after, take action at whatever pace we choose, read again and again, skip and go back. The story in a book is humble and serviceable, available, friendly, is not switched on and off but taken up and put down, lasts a lifetime.
- Duty
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- Nov 07, 2020
The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
- Grow
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing about 'Tiger Eyes' and reading it. It should've been assigned to all teenage girls.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Somebody once said that my look was like if Aileen Wuornos got acquitted and got a book deal. And I was like, 'That's wrong, but it's really funny.' And I've always thought that she was kind of like a gold mine for parody because there's all these things that went wrong in her life.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a very open book as far as the way I relate to people.
- Failure
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every author believes that the book which he is placing before the public will 'fill a long-felt want,' and success or failure depends very much on how closely he has been able to gauge the nature of the 'long-felt want.'
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's probably true that everyone has a book in them, although it may not be a very good one.
- Work
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- Nov 07, 2020
You know, things that might work in a book just do not work in the visual medium of movies.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never talked to anyone writing a book on me. I've had so much written about me that is made up, usually something that seems silly enough or weird enough to get remarked upon, and it's pretty much all fiction.
- Matter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the book is, and maybe I couldn't read it if I found it.
- Every
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Who knows the minds of men and how they reason and what their methodology is? But I am not going to extrapolate from the General Conference backing out on my book and make it a personal issue.
- Together
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
- Grabbed
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- Nov 07, 2020
I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature.
- Encapsulate
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- Nov 07, 2020
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
- Crowdsource
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writing a book is usually a full-time job that takes years. I didn't have years. So I decided to crowdsource content for the book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1976, I read a book by Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and knew immediately that I, too, could write a historical romance. It took me a year to complete the manuscript. I was a forty-year-old Scarborough housewife who knew no one in publishing.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and even Barbara Cartland taught me to write character-driven stories.
- Late
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- Nov 07, 2020
I first started writing historical fiction in the late '70s and kept pictures of Kathleen Woodiwiss and Rosemary Rogers on my refrigerator until my first book was published by Avon in 1982. The biggest advantage of this genre for me is that it allows me to blend fact and fiction.
- See
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Apple doesn't need to maximize book sales. It simply needs to keep publishers happy enough to maintain an impressive-sounding inventory of titles while waiting for entirely new forms of publishing to develop.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
- Friend
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the people that wrote a forward to my book is Gerry Spence, whom I admire. Gerry is a friend of mine, and Gerry's perhaps the leading criminal defense attorney in the country.
- Loser
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
- Finish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was at a book convention, in a cab. On one side of me was Arthur Schlesinger; on the other side was William Manchester - real heavyweights. All they were doing was asking me about Charles Manson. The only thing that enables me not to be bored is the people talking about it - they're so interested.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
This book here, 'The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder,' in it, I put together a case against George Bush that could result - it absolutely could result in his being prosecuted for first-degree murder in an American courtroom.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
- Difficult Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Adapting a book is the most difficult thing because half the time you are wondering what to remove.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020