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How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? John Ruskin
Best Book People Long Before Would Give Price Look Most How Large
The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee. John Sandford
Good Great You Book No Guarantee Write Get Difference Screenplay Good Book Published Guarantee
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me. John Sayles
Time Me You Book People Sit Down Medium Books Television Seeing More Write Read Came Hire Lot Up Itself Than Grew Story-Telling Available Movies Certainly Thing
I like to act. I work for scale. I don't have an acting agent. I'm in the book. John Sayles
Work Book Scale Like Agent Act Acting
I spend my life studying that book, and every book I've written has in some sense been a book about the Bible, and that's what I mean by reclaiming its value and its essence for a world that no longer treats it literally and no longer reads it traditionally. John Shelby Spong
Life Bible Book World Value My Life Sense Every Spend Some About Written Studying Longer Reads Been Essence Literally Mean Treats
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in a little book called 'Causeries d'Atelier' written about 1860 - it is part of the technique of Impressionism but used for quite a different reason. John Singer Sargent
Book Brilliant Back Further About Dates Habit Colour Part Written Make Advocate Couture Impressionism Up Than Quite Different Breaking Breaking Up Little Used Reason Technique
I still want to give my public, such as it is, a book a year. John Updike
Book Year Give Still Want Public
Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback. John Updike
Book Kiss Paperback TV Seductive Smaller Remote Cover Hand Fits Texture Than Jacket Human Cloth Bigger Whether Average Flexible
Grade school ruined reading for me by demanding book reports for such snore-a-thons as Benjamin Franklin's biography written for children. John Waters
Me Book School Demanding Reading Ruined Franklin Written Grade Grade School Reports Children Biography
Inside the magic of the comic book universe, it's just people to people, unguarded humanity overlapping and just getting to interact. The way we get our verdict is going to these conventions. John Wesley Shipp
Humanity Book People Universe Our Way Inside Magic Comic Verdict Comic Book Get Getting Going Just Interact Conventions
Each record in the 'Book of Angels' series is meant to be unique in terms of the compositions. John Zorn
Book Record Angels Terms Meant Meant To Be Unique Series Each
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. John le Carre
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Thank heaven, though, one of the few mistakes I haven't made is to talk about the unwritten book. John le Carre
Book Made Mistakes Few Though About Talk Unwritten Thank Heaven
I'm really a library man, or second-hand book man. John le Carre
Library Man Book Second-Hand Really
When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar. Johnny Depp
Book Guitar Down Trousers Stuffed Learn Learned How Shop Wanted Chord Found Play
I don't go anywhere without a book by James Joyce called 'Finnegan's Wake.' Johnny Depp
Book Joyce Without Go Wake James James Joyce Anywhere
Writing a book about yourself is like therapy, and you go 'Oh My God, that's the reason that happened.' Writing about it, you're forced to really examine things. Johnny Vegas
God You Yourself Book Writing About Examine Like Forced Go Oh Oh My God Happened Really Reason Therapy Things
For every book that I write... I develop a history for each person and make sure they are well rounded and flawed. You have to know everything about them from their shoe size, to where they went to school, to what their first pet was, to what they like to eat, to what they want out of life. Jojo Moyes
Life History You Book School Pet First Every Everything Out Eat About Write Develop Like Know Well Make Sure Well-Rounded Shoe Person Where Size Want Them Flawed Each Rounded
I'm not that into reading. If I'm gonna read, I'm gonna read some cool sci-fi book or something, not some stupid self-help book. Jon Heder
Book Stupid Reading Some Something Read Sci-Fi Self-Help Gonna Cool
When I wrote about media and technology, I had a lot of lonely, even intimate book talks. Since writing about dogs, I have a lot of company at book signings. Jon Katz
Technology Book Writing Lonely Book Signings Intimate About Had Since Wrote Talks Dogs Lot Company Even Media
I really enjoy researching, and for almost every piece, I research enough to write a book. Jon Krakauer
Book Research Enjoy Every Enough Write Almost Piece Really Researching
It would have been very easy to drift into writing a non-fiction book so by taking it away from Nottingham I forced myself to imagine much more of it. Jon McGregor
Myself Book Writing Would Easy Drift More Taking Forced Non-Fiction Been Very Much Away Imagine
Most of my life, I feel I have been Unicycling at the Edge of the Abyss! If fact, this will be the name of my book if I ever write one, or a one man stand up routine. I have used it as the name of a collection of my musical compositions written during the '90s. It fits the scary journey I feel I've been on. Jon Polito
Life Journey Man Book Will My Life Abyss Edge Musical Collection One-Man Scary Fact Write Written Feel Name Most Been Fits Up Stand Stand Up Used Ever Routine
No book has ever made me laugh as much as 'I, Partridge.' Jon Richardson
Me Book Made Laugh Much Ever
I always loved strange stories like the Dr. Seuss stuff. 'Go, Dog. Go!' was one of my favorite stories - it still is. It's just such a bizarre yet true book. And I did well reading and writing as a kid throughout school. I think early on that's what made me realize what an advantage that is. Jon Scieszka
Me Strange Book Writing Dog School Made Reading Think Kid Favorite Bizarre Throughout True Advantage Stuff Like Well Always Still Go Did Just Stories Loved Realize Dr Early
I think our culture has gotten so skewed. People assume that because you're an actor you want to write a book to exploit your celebrity, but my celebrity is only a byproduct of me making movies. I have no intention of being a celebrity. Jonah Hill
Me You Culture Book People Think Assume Our No Intention Only Write Because Making Gotten Making Movies Celebrity Intention Being Want Movies Skewed Exploit Your Actor
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