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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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Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Any Book Case Changed
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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Anyone Books Exclude Excluded
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The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

Awful Blame Books Find
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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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When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

Book Else Read Says
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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

Another Beverly Books Demographic
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If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

Book Gripping Reading Wrong
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I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

About Answer Books Done
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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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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Ages Books Chief Esteem
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No man can be called friendless who has God and the companionship of good books.
Man Called Friendless God
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The world of books is still the world.
World Books
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Please Nigerian youths… Slaying on the gram is not a career, and it’s doesn’t mean the individual is booked and busy… Biko everybody wears clothes… Quit mediocrity.

Please Staying Gram Career
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Here are some ideas, pick a good book and broaden your knowledge. Also use this period to reflect on ways to better yourself. You can emerge from the lockdown ready to take on the world

Good book Broaden Knowledge Reflect
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
Fanatic Never Really Comic
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.

Grand History Morals Inculcated
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.

Immutable law Universe Impressive
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

Books Find Given Mind
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Against Behavior Books Homosexual
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My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again next week, you'll get a different answer.

Again All-Time Answer Ask
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I buy way too many books.

Books Buy Many Too
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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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The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Baby Being Between Book
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Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

Books Closest Come Ever
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

Book Chapters Cut Last
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Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.
I don't Read books Entertainment
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But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

Books Read Die
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If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.

Book Child Grown Grown-Up
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Acres Add Beauty Belongs
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In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.

Book Bought First Silhouette
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Beauty Book Books Deep
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I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
Book Could Dreamed Having
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I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Because Book Go Good
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

About Around Books Children
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

Away Books Childhood Interested
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I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

Books Coming Early Ghost
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Light is more important than the lantern, The poem more important than the notebook
Important Lantern Light More
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Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.

Books Neither Planet Save
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It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

Book Case Differently Read
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

Distinguish People Happiness Word
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Every single book is a challenge.

Book Challenge Every Single
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And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Best Book Each Effort
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The decision to make Kat Von D Beauty cruelty-free was easy and simple. Sure, my products won't sell in China because of my decision, but if it spares an innocent animal from a life of torture, that is completely worth it in my book.

Animal Beauty Because Book
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Young men Prove theorems Old men
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Book Gift Open Again
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Read books Privilege Life
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