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In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have to make an investment.Collection: Book
The reason I never want a book to end is that I start to feel like the characters are my friends. I’ll miss them when they’re gone.Collection: Book
The true test of any scholar’s work is not what his contemporaries say, but what happens to his work in the next twenty-five or fifty years. And the thing that I will really be proud of is if some of the work I have done is still cited in the text books long after I am gone.Collection: Book
People are living books. The real library of life is community.Collection: Book
There’s a big difference between the National Book Awards and the Academy Awards. At the Academy Awards you can feel the greed and envy and ego. Whereas the National Book Awards are in New York.Collection: Book
There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you’re working a few hours a day and you’ve got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you’re okay.Collection: Book
You may not agree, you may not care, but if you are holding this book you should know that of all the sights I love in this world – and there are plenty – very near the top of the list is this one: dogs without leashes.Collection: Book
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It’s early work, derivative work.Collection: Book
One day, about the middle of July 1838, one of the carriages, lately introduced to Paris cabstands, and known as Milords, was driving down the Rue de l’Universite, conveying a stout man of middle height in the uniform of a captain of the National Guard.Collection: Book
That chain of relationships made me think of how connections are made – you read a book, you meet a person, you have a single experience, and your life is changed in some way. No act, therefore, however small, should be dismissed or ignored.Collection: Book
Books -where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas.Collection: Book
To create a market for your writing you have to be consistent, professional, a continuing writer – not just a one-article or a one-story or a one-book man.Collection: Book
Heav’n from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescribed, their present state: From brutes what men, from men what spirits know: Or who could suffer being here below?Collection: Book
Books delight to the very marrow of one’s bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.Collection: Book
The only difference between men and women is that women are able to create new little human beings in their bodies while simultaneously writing books, driving tractors, working in offices, planting crops – in general, doing everything men do.Collection: Book
All authors know that any book is a casting of runes, a reading of cards, a map of the palm and heart. We make up the ocean – then fall in. But we also write the life raft.Collection: Book
I don’t necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I’m trying to finish.Collection: Book
Women’s books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If it’s a woman, she’s ‘spilling her guts,’ and it’s not art.Collection: Book
I would only read the novels that people classify as ‘beach books’ if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the ‘Book of Mormon.’Collection: Book
One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They’ll do everything except rotate your tires.Collection: Book
I never outline. I don’t work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds of the way through, I don’t know how it’s going to end.Collection: Book
I don’t always write in order, so composing multi-book stories could get complicated.Collection: Book
Grandma told me Mama was once caught by the Principal for writing in the front of her book, “In Case of Fire, Throw This in First.” I have never had so much respect for Mama as the day I heard this.Collection: Book
Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You’re not out of it until the computer says you’re out of it.Collection: Book
Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it – the information just disappears out of my head.Collection: Book
I’ve been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.Collection: Book
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them – much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.Collection: Book
In politics I am growing indifferent – I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at home.Collection: Book
Books are menaced by books. Any excess of information produces silence.Collection: Book
My collection of rare books concerns only books that don’t tell the truth.Collection: Book
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven’t read, that we haven’t had the time to read.Collection: Book
We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.Collection: Book
Naturally, everything depends on one’s background books and on what one is looking for.Collection: Book
My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn’t visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.Collection: Book
A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.Collection: Book
If somebody writes a book and doesn’t care for the survival of that book, he’s an imbecile.Collection: Book
If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.Collection: Book
After a long time spent learning how to write as a woman instead of as an honorary man, I was able to come back to Earthsea and write the next three books in another and newer tradition: that of questioning, rather than accepting, the gendering of power as male.Collection: Book
A dangerous book will always be in danger from those it threatens with the demand that they question their assumptions. They’d rather hang on to the assumptions and ban the book.Collection: Book
I have decided that the trouble with print is, it never changes its mind.Collection: Book
Every book purchase made from Amazon is a vote for a culture without content and without contentment.Collection: Book
You know, I don’t think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn’t. Probably because I don’t want to start thinking, “Am I popular?” I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.Collection: Book
By and large books are mankind’s best invention.Collection: Book
The airport bookstore did not sell books, only bestsellers, which Sita Dulip cannot read without risking a severe systemic reaction.Collection: Book
If you like the book, you’ll hate the movie.Collection: Book
I’m the only kid in the world who doesn’t want an eighth Harry Potter book.Collection: Book
I’ve never done this before. I didn’t go to human bars. Mudslides aside, I’m not much of a drinker. Club people are not my people. Now, book-club people –.Collection: Book
When I read books it’s to escape. It’s so I don’t have to talk to people.Collection: Book
I’ve always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can’t judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?Collection: Book