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"530 Books Quotes

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Books Folly Looks Me
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.

About Book Comfortable Days
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.

Books Don Everything Five
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There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

Moon Nights Only Silent
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Weather forecast for tonight: dark.
Moon Nights Only Silent
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

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I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

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Then one day I read about a book that said that the church is the only army that shoots its wounded.

About Army Book Church
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I give novels as gifts, and there is nothing I like to receive more as a gift.
Gift Gifts Give Like
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

About Books Keep New
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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For a novelist, it's kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture.

Burden Culture Entire Kind
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Been Being Books Broad
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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There's nothing easy about writing. It's always difficult. It's always a struggle.

About Always Difficult Easy
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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Actual Avoided Books Electronic
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The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems.

Difficulty Directly First How
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All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I've ever written was because I don't have a choice. I write stories because I can't wait to tell it, I can't wait to see how it ends.

Anything Because Choice Compulsive
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Economic chasm between people is something that is of interest to me. And something that I used to write about even as a child. It's something I've revisited a few times in my writings.

About Between Child Economic
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Writing for me is largely about rewriting.

About Largely Me Rewriting
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I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

Actually Boo Got Many
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You have to write every day, and you have to write whether you feel like it or not.

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Write the story you need to tell and want to read. It's impossible to know what others want, so don't waste time trying to guess.

Guess Impossible Know Need
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It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

Book Computer Difficult Read
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Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

Age Jurassic Kind Publishing
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.

Book Free Publishers Sales
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I'd have stopped writing years ago if it were for the money.

Money Stopped Were Writing
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
Alert Awaits Choose Close
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I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.

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I just have never got into reading.

Got Just Never Reading
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A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images.

Anything Images Never Novel
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Don't just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.

Easy Entertained Grow Just
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Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.
Book Meal Miss You
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A work survives its readers; after a hundred or two hundred years, it is read by new readers who impose on it new modes of reading and interpretation. The work survives because of these interpretations, which are, in fact, resurrections: without them, there would be no work.

After Because Fact Hundred
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Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Impress Other Today Want
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I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

Books Enjoy Learnt Like
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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism. It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.

Good Write Kind Book
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.

Ideas Book Essence Great
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A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past.

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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Alive Been Books Connected
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Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Books Reading You
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We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.

Read Hope Strange
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I, perhaps wrongly, assume that people actually read articles that interest them rather than just headlines.

Actually Articles Assume Headlines
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

Always Books Darker Drama
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Biggest Books Critics Never
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.

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