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For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
Lois McMaster Bujold
I cannot emphasize enough that I do not start with a plan or agenda and mechanically manipulate characters and events to carry it out. I set characters in motion, and let them teach me what the book is.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
Cecelia Ahern
Whenever I go to Germany I find that my readers have T-shirts with my book covers printed on them. They come to all the events, they have gifts and they come with their families. They are always very open to sharing their personal stories.
Cecelia Ahern
Parading about in the latest gowns and making dull platitudes for an entire evening doesn't constitute social success in my book.
Irene Dunne
If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people's point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
Dale Carnegie
Every single book is a challenge.
Nora Roberts
In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.
Nora Roberts
There's no trouble in this world so serious that it can't be cured with a hot bath, a glass of whiskey, and the Book of Common Prayer.
Elizabeth Gilbert
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the piano as his canvas.
Roberta Flack
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
Mitch Hedberg
It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
Tracy Chevalier
The act of writing the book was painful at times, but it was easier than talking to someone.
Piper Laurie
A book in shape but, really, pure crude fact Secreted from man's life when hearts beat hard, And brains, high-blooded, ticked two centuries since. Give it me back! The thing's restorative I'the touch and sight.
Robert Browning
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
Cyril Connolly
Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.
Jeanette Winterson
Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette Winterson
I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
Jeanette Winterson
It's [the art-magazine 'Circle'] been reprinted and it's now referred to as classic. Well it is. But w:Ben Nicholson, Sir Leslie Martin, Gabo and Leslie Martin's wife, Sadie Speaight, and I did that. We were sitting round the fire and we said, 'Why shouldn't we do a book?
Barbara Hepworth
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself.
Marilyn vos Savant
No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it.
Ernest Hemingway
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. [...] it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
Ernest Hemingway
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