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I've probably had my day in the sun. I think I've influenced a lot of comic book writers.
Harvey Pekar

Sun, Writers, Influenced

My work looks like a comic book in form, but it's not a typical comic book in content. I write autobiographical stuff.
Harvey Pekar

Work, Write, Stuff

Ideally a book would have no order in it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
Raoul Vaneigem

Order, Discover, Reader

Oh I'm a huge comic book movie fan.
Kat Dennings

'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.
Colson Whitehead

Different, Thought, Wanted

What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what happened or what the story.
Robert Redford

Life, Write, Story

I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
Natan Sharansky

Change, Power, Freedom

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.
John Hodgman

Actually, Copy, Author

Everyone wants to write a book. Very few people are able to do it.
John Hodgman

Everyone, Able, Write

The most important book on the Internet is, essentially, the Internet.
John Hodgman

Important, Internet

I wasn't a smart kid and I still don't think I'm too smart when it comes to book smart, but I was very good with what I knew and with my craft and I think that was my calling in life. But even today I never went to college.
Criss Angel

Life, Good, Today

If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
Kevin O'Leary

Give, Birth, Period

I think a book is your calling card, your business card.
Kevin O'Leary

Business, Calling, Card

Let's just say that I don't think our show has very much in common with the book any more.
Kristin Davis

The Carrie in the plot was too much like the Carrie in the book. She smoked, she swore a lot, she was very hard, very cynical. I could never have pulled it off.
Kristin Davis

The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every strand in my life that is relevant to that story. It's kind of an autobiography but isn't, as it stops about 25 years ago. It goes right up to the first time I do stand up.
Jack Dee

Life, Time, Nothing

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something.
Moon Unit Zappa

Hope, Experience, Taking

As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks

Long, Film, Read

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
Iain Banks

Old, Year, Drawing

'Dead Air' is full of rants; it's a rant-based book. Yes, it's self-indulgence. I plead guilty; mea culpa.
Iain Banks

Dead, Guilty, Full

I enjoy it too much - even if I knew I'd never get a book published, I would still write. I enjoy the experience of getting thoughts and ideas and plots and characters organised into this narrative framework.
Iain Banks

Experience, Enjoy, Thoughts

I don't really do themes. I might accidentally, but themes are an emergent phenomena of the writing of the book, of just trying to get a story out there.
Iain Banks

Writing, Trying, Story

An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
Thomas Traherne

Mind, Nothing, May

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.
Candace Bushnell

Life, Funny, Girl

I was incredibly determined - I wrote short stories, I wrote the beginnings of novels. I wrote a little children's book and sent it to the editor-in-chief of the children's division of Simon and Schuster and she asked me to write a little children's book for a series she was doing.
Candace Bushnell

Children, Short, Write

I've always been an avid reader. If I don't have a book in the car, I'll stop and pick one up just to have something to read. I don't even remember learning to read.
Janis Ian

Learning, Car, Remember

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called 'The Package', and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.
Laurie Anderson

Children, Words, Few

Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.
Walter Benjamin

Baby, Genuine, Approach

You've got to live life to write a book about it.
Andy Williams

Life, Live, Write

Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a builder. So it isn't irrational to take this simple logic a little further and say that nature must have had a Maker. It would be irrational to believe that it made itself.
Ray Comfort

Nature, Car, Simple

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