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New York is the place where they bind books and write blurbs and arrange the publicity and print the galleys... But Chicago is the place where the book is lived out before it is bound and the song is sung before it is recorded.
Nelson Algren
Book
Song
Before
Books
Out
Sung
Recorded
Write
Bound
New
Print
Arrange
Chicago
York
New York
Where
Place
Bind
Lived
Publicity
There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Nicholas Sparks
Great
Writing
Great Deal
Pressure
First
Books
Since
Deal
Always
Were
Successful
Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.
Norman Mailer
Writing
Men
Books
Come
Closest
Ever
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
Omar Torrijos Herrera
Communism
Wealth
Books
Out
Rationing
Through
Like
Because
Hands
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
World
Own
Books
Immoral
Shame
Calls
Show
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Oswald Chambers
Education
Mind
Blessed
Books
If children are studying the 20th century, I'm in their text books.
Paul McCartney
Books
Studying
Text
Children
Century
With Shakespeare and poetry, a new world was born. New dreams, new desires, a self consciousness was born. I desired to know to know myself in terms of the new standards set by these books.
Peter Abrahams
Dreams
Myself
World
Books
Born
Shakespeare
Poetry
Self
Self-Consciousness
New
Know
Terms
New World
Standards
Consciousness
Desired
Desires
Set
Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Knowledge
Learning
World
Men
Reading
Books
Facets
More
Only
Various
Studying
Reading Books
Them
Acquired
Much
Necessary
I love reading and I love thinking - the reason that I love my books so much is that in order to write them I have to read and to think for years at a time about the same period of time.
Philippa Gregory
Love
Time
Reading
Think
Thinking
Books
About
Write
Period
Read
Years
Same
Order
Them
Much
Reason
Like books and black lives, albums still matter.
Prince
Matter
Black
Books
Like
Still
Lives
Albums
At one time in my career, Barnes and Noble bookstores categorized my books as religious fiction.
Richard Paul Evans
Time
Books
Bookstores
One Time
Religious
Noble
Categorized
Fiction
Career
People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.
Richard Paul Evans
People
Sometimes
Looking
Books
Inspiration
Vehicles
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
Richard Wright
Me
Experience
Looking
Books
Ways
Out
Dream
Seeing
Slowly
Beaten
New
Up
New Ways
Impulse
Again
Now
Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors that they are ready to repeat their lessons as often as we please.
Robert Chambers
Please
Books
Having
Counselors
Advantage
Over
Instructor
Ready
Always
Repeat
Hand
Preachers
Oral
Often
Disinterested
Standing
Lessons
I buy a lot of books I never read. But that's not really a waste, since all it takes is one idea from even one book to radically reshape the way a person leads, thinks and lives.
Robin S. Sharma
Buy
Book
Books
Way
One Book
Never
Takes
Idea
Leads
Since
Read
Lot
Person
Really
Radically
Even
Waste
Lives
Thinks
Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.
Roger Ebert
Problem
Advice
Books
Bad
About
Bad Taste
Reads
Begin
Taste
Romance
Anyone
Literature
Who
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
Russell Banks
Worth
Relative
Books
Tell
About
Finish
More
Than
Lists
Themselves
Us
You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
Samantha Morton
You
Yourself
People
Doing The Right Thing
First
Down
Society
Books
Right Thing
Eating
Foods
Self
Part
Know
Look
Know Yourself
Self-Help
Got
Shelves
Doing
Opposed
Encouraged
Getting
Being
So-Called
The Right Thing
Themselves
Your
Help
Even
Right
Thing
There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books don't count. We are still the illegal aliens of the literary world.
Sandra Cisneros
World
Alien
Our
Books
Latino
Small
Through
Writers
Count
Talented
Because
Am
Still
Literary
Illegal
Illegal Aliens
Many
Published
And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.
Sarah Jessica Parker
You
Library
Will
Independence
Own
Sense
Enjoy
Books
Neighborhood
Introduce
Borrowing
Give
Parent
Real
Real Sense
Children
Them
Your
Card
As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth.
Sarah MacLean
Family
Winter
Made
Weather
Long
Nights
Cold
Cold Weather
Drama
Approaches
Books
Sloth
Crave
Bringing
The one thing that I would say that defines me is I love to learn. I get excited about new things. I buy more books than I read or finish.
Satya Nadella
Love
Buy
Me
New Things
Books
Say
Defines
Would
One Thing
About
Finish
More
Excited
New
Learn
Read
Than
Get
The One Thing
Thing
Things
Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
Shelby Foote
Word
Books
Inspiration
Most
Came
Themselves
To some extent, all authors are a little schizophrenic. We lead most of our lives in solitary confinement, living and breathing the books that we're writing.
Sophie Kinsella
Writing
Schizophrenic
Living
Our
Books
Our Lives
Solitary
Solitary Confinement
Some
Lead
Most
Authors
Confinement
Little
Breathing
Lives
Extent
It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field.
Stephen Covey
Technology
Communication
People
Field
Books
Way
Ways
Television
Would
Find
More
More People
Fact
Exciting
New
Like
Read
Very
Than
Get
New Technology
New Ways
Information
Watch
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