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What an inspiring book. Thank heaven Lee Thornton decided to share her remarkable life story with us. Lee's book is a blessing as well as a terrific read.
~ Caroline Myss
table. Her phone rang at the same time she flipped the book open. "Mama
~ Carolyn Brown
As Nancy started back to the driveway she caught sight of a small leather-covered book lying a few feet from the doghouse. Eagerly Nancy snatched it up.
~ Carolyn Keene
It is strange how ideas can float about and be ignored until they are put into a book. A book can be a weapon...
~ Chaim Potok
I held it close to my face and smelled the ink. I have always loved the smell of ink in a new book.
~ Chaim Potok
JB's mind is like an open book with maybe two words per page.)
~ Charlaine Harris
There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.
~ Scott Stossel
'Something Borrowed' was initially titled 'Rolling the Dice,' but my editor said it sounded like a men's gambling memoir.
~ Emily Giffin
I'd dearly love to write a political book that changed the hearts and minds of men and women.
~ Jim Crace
I've had great writing teachers and mentors and great success with my first book.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
~ Paul Scofield
When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
~ Gary Jennings
When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.'
~ Elmore Leonard
I knew the story of 'War Horse' very well. I had read the book even before I did the auditions. I'm a big fan of Michael Morpurgo.
~ Celine Buckens
When I write about Mickey Haller as the Lincoln lawyer, I totally see Matthew McConaughey because he took that character when that character was still fairly new to me - only two or three years old - when I knew McConaughey was going to play him. He's also the same age, the right age, in comparison to the book.
~ Michael Connelly
The hard thing about the book world is that you never know whether 10 people or a million people will find it interesting.
~ Rick Smolan
When you're playing a character in a book, there's already a lot of pressure because all of the millions of people who have read the series have been able to envision and become very attached to the characters.
~ Nikki Reed
My heart's toward youth ministry, but I don't know. I never would have thought I would have written a book. And God kind of directed that. So we'll see what the next is.
~ Tony Dungy
To speak like a book I once read, wet weather is the narrative, and fine days are the episodes, of our country's history;
~ Thomas Hardy
A paperback book was wrapped around Barney's massive index finger as he held his place.
~ Thomas Harris
To the memory of Oskar Schindler, and to Leopold Pfefferberg who by zeal and persistence caused this book to be written.
~ Thomas Keneally
A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book, even though it may be about the love of God. There are many who think that because they have written about God, they have written good books. Then men pick up these books and say: if the ones who say they believe in God cannot find anything better than this to say about it, their religion cannot be worth much.
~ Thomas Merton
On the book Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up To Me) Coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch. Hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful and outrageous all at the same time.
~ Thomas Pynchon
The Population Bomb is a textbook example of a scare book
~ Thomas Sowell