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The thing about rigging is, you can learn it if you become a master rigger but there's no book on rigging.
Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.
I write the books I want to read. I'm interested in seeing what happens with this book in the marketplace.
To the artist, the Book of Genesis is an account of six days in which God suggested some really good ideas.
I'm kicking myself in the rear end every day, saying, 'Did I really book this many shows? What am I doing?'
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
I became a writer because I love to read, yet I never get to unless I'm reviewing a book or doing research.
There will be more words written on Twitter in the next two years than contained in all books ever printed.
Only just the right quantum of wit should be put into a book; in conversation a little excess is allowable.
That little touch is not in the books, but I wish it had been in the books because it was a great addition.
The Bible is the book of my life. It's the book I live with, the book I live by, the book I want to die by.
If I get enough letters saying you never explained this or that, I suppose I'll have to write another book.
To me there's no difference between a book of stories and a novel - they're just slightly different shapes.
I think the fact that I use salty words in my Bonhoeffer book would tip you off that I'm no prude, exactly.
My hope is that I'm getting better and wiser. With every book, I have more of myself to pour onto the page.
I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.
How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
Many of my books have begun with the title, because naming a work already in progress makes no sense to me.
But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?
Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.
If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.
...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct.
I have a vision of the whole Church getting nearer to God by abiding by the precepts of the Book of Mormon.
The Book of Psalms instructs us in the use of wings as well as words. It sets us both mounting and singing.
I am what libraries and librarians have made me, with little assistance from a professor of Greek and poets
Tough break today. Looks like I gotta go back and rememorize a couple hundred pages of the usga rules book!
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.
I'm a thirty-something gay man with a dodgy heart. I sell books for a living. Who wants to read about that?
I was reading this James Bond book, and right away I realized that, like most books, it had too many words.
I'm uncomfortable trying to rush change of perception, except to the extent that I'm going to write a book.
The more you read, the more you realize there are fascinating books to be read and so little time to do so.
Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.
If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.
When you're reading, you're not where you are; you're in the book. By the same token, I can write anywhere.
I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.
I started carrying blank books like this one around, which I would fill with all the things I couldn't say.
The artist is present in every page of every book from which he sought so assiduously to eliminate himself.
One of the pleasantest things about book writing is that sometimes it brings one in touch with old friends.
I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.
People are looking for inspiration, and my books are sometimes the vehicles of what people are looking for.
A mystery novel localizes the awesome force of the real death outside the book, winds it tightly in a plot.
Music and movie scripts are books. You want to be literally moved and that's the sort of things I look for.
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing.
Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.
Take your hands off her, Sinclair told the guy behind me, Or they'll write books about what I'll do to you.
It was amazing how many books one could fit into a room, assuming one didn't want to move around very much.
I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past.
If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.
Ultimately, I'm in control of what's going on in the books, so I can back off, if it's scaring me too much.