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I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them. Whitley Strieber

Sense Books Marketing Could Never Nobody Make Because Got Been Lots Sitting Any Them Published Here

Books such as 'The Rules' and 'He's Just Not That Into You' need to go out of the window. Whitney Wolfe Herd

You Books Rules Out Window He Go Just Need

I read all of Rider Haggard's books. For me he had the romance of Africa with a little bit of mysticism. I'm delighted to be looked on as his heir and be categorised as an adventure novelist because that's exactly what I am. Wilbur Smith

Me Books Bit Exactly Exactly What Delighted Mysticism Had Haggard He Adventure Looked Read Because Am His Romance Africa Little Little Bit Heir Rider Novelist

Real men read my books. Wilbur Smith

Men Books Read Real

I wanted to be a great white hunter, a prospector for gold, or a slave trader. But then, when I was eight, my parents sent me to a boarding school in South Africa. It was the equivalent of a British public school with cold showers, beatings and rotten food. But what it also had was a library full of books. Wilbur Smith

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I read a lot of biographies and books with an African background. Wilbur Smith

Books Background Read Lot African Biographies

Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch. Will Self

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I am a regular, if not exactly enthusiastic, patron of my local bookshop. I try to buy at least some books there because I cling to the belief that it's important to maintain those businesses which put a human face on the exchange of money for goods and services. Will Self

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What's important to me is that all of my books are in print - and, in a way, that becomes the challenge, not winning this prize or getting that review. It's that the work is there, and you can walk into many bookshops throughout the world and buy it. William Boyd

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At a time when there's younger writers starting up and it's inevitable that you're becoming less fashionable, at a time when the industrial pressures apply more and more to books, how do you keep a book you wrote 28 years ago selling well year on year? Because it really is getting harder. William Boyd

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Sometimes, I can myself be frustrated by books that seem to me to be insufficiently realistic about the world's potential for just being totally a randomly bad place. William Gibson

Myself Me World Sometimes Realistic Books Randomly Bad Totally About Seem Potential Just Being Place Frustrated

The ecological impact of book manufacture and traditional book marketing - I think that should really be considered. We have this industry in which we cut down trees to make the paper that we then use enormous amounts of electricity to turn into books that weigh a great deal and are then shipped enormous distances to point-of-sale retail. William Gibson

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My temper is of a recluse and contemplative cast; had it been otherwise, I should, perhaps, on some former occasions, have entered into the active concerns of the world and not have been connected with it merely as a writer of books. William Godwin

One day I will go back to my books and piano, but not yet. William Hague

Day Will Back Books One Day Piano Go

I have published so many books in so many years. I can't complain about any lack of attention. But I've never been placed as a Southern writer, which I really am. So I was happy finally to be published by someone in the South. William Jay Smith

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me. William Landay

Me Mind Please Books Write Particular Audience Just Ever

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices. William Lyon Phelps

Fly Past Birds Air Books Slip High Through Prices Likely Him His Hands Often Little Means Suffer

If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader! William Makepeace Thackeray

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I don't remember being taught to read, and by the time I was seven years old, I had read a very great many books, good, bad, and indifferent. William Morris

Time Good Great Remember Old Seven Books Bad Indifferent Had Read Years Very Taught Being Many By The Time

I was always working. Maybe you weren't aware of the movies I was making, or the television I was doing, or the shows I was creating, or the books I was writing; there have been thirty. But I have always been solidly at work, running as fast as I can. William Shatner

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His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world. William Shenstone

Knowledge World Degree Books Diminished Some Had His

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