3541 Book Quotes for You to Enjoy

When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print. Frank Abagnale

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What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind. Frank Deford

The strike zone should be what the rule book says it is and not a personal idiosyncrasy. Frank Deford

Book Strike Rule Rule Book Says Personal Should Zone

'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart. Frank Delaney

I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book. Frank McCourt

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I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book. Frank McCourt

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I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say, into some kind of - onto the best seller list. Frank McCourt

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It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that I wrote a book, that I did have it in me. Frank McCourt

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A good book or movie or screenplay should be emotionally satisfying. When they're done, you want people to breathe a deep sigh and say, 'Wow.' Frank Peretti

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Kids are not going to sit and read a slow-paced book. Neither are adults. Frank Peretti

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If you're going to read a Peretti book, you're going to get a message. But the book is a pretty good read. Frank Peretti

Good You Book Pretty Pretty Good Message Read Get Going

Generally, my notes and outlines comprise more words than my novels. I suppose that's one reason I'm a comparatively slow writer, something that has always bothered me given the fact that other authors can turn out a book every six months while I usually take about two years. Frank Peretti

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I think what's happening with book advances is something that most of the world just doesn't fully appreciate, especially when it comes to nonfiction, because writing a book of investigative journalism is an expensive endeavor, and the system works best if you have publishers making bets on authors. Franklin Foer

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I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could read the thing the way it came and then shuffle the pages, like a giant deck of cards, and read the book in an entirely different order. It would be a different book, wouldn't it? It would be one of infinite books. Franz Wright

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The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years. Fred Saberhagen

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The Bible, that powerful book, has many effects: it comforts, counsels, instructs, and brings us into the presence of God. But trying to erase offense as one of its functions is a fundamentally misguided task. Frederica Mathewes-Green

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I'm doing a book, 'Chasing Science,' about the pleasures of science as a spectator sport. Frederik Pohl

Science Book Chasing Pleasures About Sport Doing Spectator

Mountains were once my big adventure but is is over since a long time; I still dream from the wonderful days sometimes, read also a few pages from a mountain book. But the thought of doing again active mountain climbing has faded. Fritz Zwicky

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Jimi Hendrix, he was a rock star. But he played guitar; I don't. I've just found ways to use words to make my mark in this history book. Future

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I consider Apple to be very closed. Let's say you have a book business, and you are charging 5 to 7 percent gross margins; you can't exist in an Apple world because they want 30 percent, and they don't care that you only have 7 percent to play with. Gabe Newell

Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with. Gabourey Sidibe

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I am never without my lyric book. If anything inspirational happens, I have it there so nothing's forgotten. Gabrielle Aplin

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For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.' Gabrielle Zevin

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