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" Quotes and Sayings About a book

Whenever you're writing a book or creating a movie or a game, your first task is to get the reader/audience/player to suspend disbelief, to buy into the logic and boundaries of your world, even though those boundaries might include things like dragons and magic. To do that, you need long threads - of history and culture.

Book Boundaries Buy Creating
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Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

About Asked Book Main
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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.

About Again Book Books
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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.

About Afraid Because Book
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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 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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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Asked Bookstore Defeat Me
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It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

Book Computer Difficult Read
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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.

About Book Bought Couple
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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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I really have reached a point where I can write a book about all of this.
About Book I Can Point
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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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If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Again Book Cannot Enjoy
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I have a saying. 'Never judge a book by its cover'. I say that because I don't even know who Ozzy is. I wake up a new person every day.

Because Book Cover Day
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I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

All-Around Around Article Book
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I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by a publisher right away and became an instant bestseller. One male critic called it the most shocking book he ever read.

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Making a book is such a big enterprise.
Big Book Enterprise Making
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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though.

Author Best Book Call
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The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3.

Always Beginning Book Chapter
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I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.

About Book Breaking Classical
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I'd like to meet fewer people who say 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 10 pages I've written,' and more 'Oh, I want to write a book, here are 300 pages I've written.'

Book Fewer Here Like
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

Above Believe Book Characteristic
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The first sentence of a book is a promise.

First Sentence Book Promise
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
Bad Never School Bookworm
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
Classic Book Written
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I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book.

Book Deck Love Lying
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Every actor is somewhat mad, or else he'd be a plumber or a bookkeeper or a salesman.

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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Becomes Book Dead Genius
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Beautifully Become Book Coming
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say
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What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!

Book Clumsy Cruel Devil
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Classic Book Rereading Discovery
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Book Company Counselors Garden
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Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Book Each Friends Heart
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When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Get Hold Book Admire
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You must have a book, website, a program or app that supports your ambition that you must use every day. Just following people is not enough.

Book Website Program Ambition
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Publishes book Appears Public Eye
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Oh, friend, forget not, when you fain would note In me a beauty that was never mine, How first you knew me in a book I wrote, How first you loved me for a written line....

Friend Forget Fain Beauty
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I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with.

Book Happy Lame Could
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

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The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and say, 'Hey, I've got a great idea for a book. I'm not a writer, but I've got a great story.'

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I don't perceive an audience at all when I write a book. It's pure self-indulgence.

Audience Book I Write Perceive
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Book Conceive Generally Long
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I used to believe that if I could do certain things - write a book or be a successful musician - that I'd be transformed into a happy person, but it doesn't work that way.

Believe Book Certain CertainThings
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Songs you can dip in and out of, but a book... well, it can overpower you.

Book Dip Out Songs
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If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

Book Done Every Found
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I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.
Book Book store Entertain Every
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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Ask Book Ever IWrite
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