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If anybody reads a story in a magazine or book, different pictures compete in their minds.
Vincente Minnelli

Different, Minds, Story

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves.
Sam Brownback

Find, Congress, Works

This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
Arthur Golden

Character, Woman, She

I'm addicted to email, but other than that, there are practical things - being able to buy a book on the internet that you can't find in your local bookshop. This could be a lifeline if you live further from the sources.
Marilyn Hacker

Live, Find, Able

I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
Barbara Kruger

History, Film, Events

There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when it happens, whether it's a movie, music, a building, a book.
Barbara Kruger

Love, Music, Moment

Why by a book when you can join a library.
Ricky Gervais

Why, Library, Join

In a certain sense, this guy - who is one of the most evil people in the book - he's not really that bad at running the show, because he knows what he's doing, he's smart and he's got the big picture in mind. He's like the Godfather.
Kevin J. Anderson

Smart, Mind, Bad

Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
Kevin J. Anderson

Time, Science, Everyone

It's absolutely philistine not to recognize what a great book 'An American Dream' is. Norman Mailer is his own worst enemy, and if you don't catch him in a defensive position, he'll admit it. I'd really like to help that man.
Germaine Greer

Great, Enemy, Help

I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.
Michael Connelly

Anyone, Pressured, Publisher

I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
John McGahern

Time, Read, Reading

I usually start writing a novel that I then abandon. When I say abandon, I don't think any writer ever abandons anything that they regard as even a half-good sentence. So you recycle. I mean, I can hang on to a sentence for several years and then put it into a book that's completely different from the one it started in.
Kate Atkinson

Writing, Mean, Different

Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane Austen. Something I said at some festival.
Kate Atkinson

Said, Write, Books

When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
Kate Atkinson

Everyone, Started, Characters

It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.
Vincent Bugliosi

History, Political, Loser

I'm trying to finish my book on the Kennedy assassination.
Vincent Bugliosi

Trying, Finish, Kennedy

It's just a matter of writing the kind of book I enjoy reading. Something better be happening at the beginning, and then on every page after, or I get irritated.
Jonathan Franzen

Writing, Enjoy, After

When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it.
Christoph Waltz

Whatever, Read, Accessible

I'm not really all that familiar with comic book culture.
Christoph Waltz

Culture, Familiar, Comic

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.
Mark Roberts

America, Biggest, Third

I put off writing the first Left Behind book for a year because I got invited to assist Billy Graham in his memoirs, and had we known what we were putting off for a year, we might not have put it off.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Writing, Put, Off

While writing my first 90 books, I was magazine editor, publisher, book publisher, executive, etc., so I was established in publishing. three of my seven or so books were biographies of sports stars and really opened doors for me in that area.
Jerry B. Jenkins

Sports, Writing, Stars

Even though I may not intend it when I set out to write the book, these places just emerge as major players in what I'm doing, almost as if they are insisting on it.
David Guterson

May, Write, Almost

I was aware that there is an expectation that writers inevitably falter at this stage, that they fail to live up to the promise of their first successful book, that the next book never pleases the way the prior one did. It simply increased my sense of being challenged.
David Guterson

Successful, Live, Sense

When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task. That was certainly the case with me after Snow Falling on Cedars.
David Guterson

Time, Snow, Down

In 1960 I published a book that attempted to direct attention to the possibility of a thermonuclear war, to ways of reducing the likelihood of such a war, and to methods for coping with the consequences should war occur despite our efforts to avoid it.
Herman Kahn

War, Attention, Ways

It's hard to see a film that's been made from a book that you really loved because it's such a different experience.
Ed Harris

Experience, Hard, Different

I don't think there's anything wrong with someone having to read a poem twice. Or even a book.
George Murray

Someone, Wrong, Read

When I write a book, I'm making it the best book I can.
Thomas Perry

Best, Write, Making

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