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The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.
Yann Martel
Language
Prose
Cinema
Movie
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Every book I've written has been a different attempt to understand something, and the success or failure of the previous one is irrelevant. I write the book I want.
Yann Martel
Book
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I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
Yoko Ono
Arrive
Based
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“The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.”
Les Brown
Problem
Determination
Carry
Dream
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Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.
Ben Okri
Act
Book
Bring
Creative
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The real war will never get in the books.
Walt Whitman
War
Receive
Enemy
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The first book I wrote was The Bride Price which was a romantic book, but my husband burnt the book when he saw it. I was the typical African woman, I'd done this privately, I wanted him to look at it, approve it and he said he wouldn't read it.
Buchi Emecheta
African
Approve
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Bride
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
Orhan Pamuk
Book
Conception
Does
Experience
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When my novel 'Beach Music' came out in 1995, I had included a couple of recipes in the book and had tried to impart some of my love of Roman cuisine and the restaurants of Rome.
Pat Conroy
Beach
Book
Came
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
Oswald Chambers
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Curious
Good
Good Book
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Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.
Galileo Galilei
Book
Cannot
Composed
Comprehend
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Carl Sagan
American
Bits
Books
Broadcast
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Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?
Cesar Chavez
Best
Better
Book
Consist
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Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Book
Chapter
First
Honesty
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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
Jeff Bezos
Book
Container
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Itself
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The book tour has been really interesting and very gratifying. I have not book toured before. I've never had quite as much pleasure, as much satisfaction.
Leonard Nimoy
Been
Before
Book
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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law.
Lyndon B. Johnson
About
Books
Chapter
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
Umberto Eco
Against
Also
Book
Books
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An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler
Apology
Books
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Devil
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.
St. Jerome
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Daughter
First
First Of All
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b
Eldridge Cleaver
Books
Could
Court
Ghetto
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.
Walter Benjamin
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Writing
Buy
Ways
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Most states in the union where the death penalty is theoretically on the books don't have executions.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Books
Death
Death Penalty
Most
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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.
Kinky Friedman
Days
There
Many
People
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.
R. A. Salvatore
Book
Expect
Experience
Me
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I didn't and don't go to Internet for any business purposes. The book sales for me by this point are way beyond any influence I might have, positively, or others might have, negatively.
R. A. Salvatore
Any
Beyond
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Business
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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Appreciated
Because
Books
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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.
Karl Pilkington
About
Book
Comfortable
Days
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Publishers see free downloads as threatening the sales of the book.
Paulo Coelho
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Free
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Jim Rohn
Book
Help
Read
You
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died
William Faulkner
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Effort
History
Life
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Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.
William Faulkner
Board
Honor
Pride
Decency
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The good, the admirable reader identifies himself not with the boy or the girl in the book, but with the mind that conceived and composed that book.
Vladimir Nabokov
Mind
Admirable
Good
Book
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Oscar Wilde
Books
Calls
Immoral
Own
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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.
Naomi Watts
Always
Books
Darker
Drama
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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.
Jackie Collins
About
After
Ask
Because
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Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Existed
Ever
Book
Join
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In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it.
Lady Gaga
Book
Bring
Comfort
Fame
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There's no more to Holden Caulfield. Read the book again. It's all there. Holden Caulfield is only a frozen moment in time.
J. D. Salinger
Again
Book
Frozen
Moment
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I'll agonize over sentences. Mostly because you're trying to create specific effects with sentences, and because there are a number of different voices in the book.
Neil Gaiman
Because
Book
Create
Different
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When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
Neil Gaiman
Been
Books
Cause
Had
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My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.
Neil Gaiman
Best
Countries
Fantasy
Fiction
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.
Haruki Murakami
Ambition
Because
Books
Good
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“One of these days some simple soul will pick up the book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed.”
Leonard Ravenhill
God
Book
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Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful.
Ice Cube
Book
Doing
Exactly
Go
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Vince Vaughn
Been
Book
Last
Life
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.
Moliere
Book
Books
Day
Doing
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
Igor Stravinsky
Am
Book
Drama
Film
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
Irvine Welsh
Afford
Basically
Books
Britain
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
Dan Brown
Simple
Blinders
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Book
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