“ Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text. ”
- Walter Benjamin- Copy
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“ I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worries and only half the royalties. ”
- Agatha Christie- Copy
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“ Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones. ”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning- Copy
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“ Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not also do so. ”
- Northrop Frye- Copy
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“ When I am dead, I hope it may be said: 'His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.'. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
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“ The best part of every author is in general to be found in his book, I assure you. ”
- Samuel Johnson- Copy
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“ Just get it down on paper, and then we'll see what to do with it. ”
- Maxwell Evarts Perkins- Copy
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“ It has been said that writing comes more easily if you have something to say. ”
- Sholem Asch- Copy
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“ Usually, you don't know where a book comes from... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch. ”
- Cormac McCarthy- Copy
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“ An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
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“ I didn't want to be ignored. I didn't want my books to be ignored. But I didn't really care to cut such a figure either because... well, it interferes with the business of writing. ”
- Saul Bellow- Copy
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“ The interesting thing is that I rarely look at the outline once I've done it. And when I read the outline once I've written the novel, I realize I've written a totally different book. ”
- Jonathan Kellerman- Copy
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“ Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo. ”
- Don Marquis- Copy
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“ An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. ”
- Benjamin Disraeli- Copy
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“ I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child. ”
- George Konrad- Copy
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“ I might well have written a different book in some respects had I been writing it now. But I wouldn't really go back on things I had said. ”
- Peter Singer- Copy
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“ Most of the untranscribed and unpublished manuscripts in the book popped out of boxes at me when I wasn't looking for them; I picked them up out of the corner of my eye. ”
- Robert Hughes- Copy
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“ I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it. ”
- Hilaire Belloc- Copy
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“ I get a script and it's really interesting with scripts, because you never really know. It's paper and it could be great or awful. Even scripts that are good could end up not working. ”
- Amanda Bynes- Copy
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“ If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it. ”
- George Burns- Copy
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“ I didn't turn the script down. It was the title. It didn't sound… right. From The Godfather to Elf? My agents told me: We're sending you a script called Elf, and I said: No you're not! ”
- James Caan- Copy
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“ My springboard is always the script. Even if the script is taken from a novel, I often haven't read the novel… . ”
- John Hurt- Copy
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“ The script is the bible. If you imagine setting off on an adventure in a canoe, the script is the strong arms that shove you out into the stream. It is the map of where you are going. ”
- Paul Williams- Copy
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“ Books that have become classics — books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal — always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. ”
- Thomas Bailey Aldrich- Copy
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“ The Twist was a guided missile, launched from the ghetto into the very heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion, and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books. ”
- Eldridge Cleaver- Copy
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“ The process of writing a book is infinitely more important than the book that is completed as a result of the writing, let alone the success or failure that book may have after it is written... the book is merely a symbol of the writing. In writing the book, I am living… ”
- Theodore Isaac Rubin- Copy
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