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book
I didn't learn a lot from books. I learned a lot from movies. Carole Bouquet
book reading moving
Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. Carol Shields
book writing want
Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
book shoes marketing
What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this [marketing material] deliver that information? Carol White
book heart telephones
Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved. Carlos Drummond de Andrade
book writing
I must write the book out in my head now, before I sit down. Carlos Fuentes
book reality thinking
For me, life without literature is inconceivable. I think that Don Quixote in a physical sense never existed, but Don Quixote exists more than anybody who existed in 1605. Much more. There's nobody who can compete with Don Quixote or with Hamlet. So in the end we have the reality of the book as the reality of the world and the reality of history.
book wife reason
Here among my books, my wife, my friends and my loves, I have plenty of reasons to keep living.
book past years
Some writers achieve great popularity and then disappear forever. The bestseller lists of the past fifty years are, with a few lively exceptions, a sombre graveyard of dead books.
writing people leader
I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember. Carlos Ghosn
writing biographies like-you
One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
writing literature imagine
In literature, you know only what you imagine
writing fighting opposites
Diplomacy in a sense is the opposite of writing. You have to disperse yourself so much: the lady who comes in crying because shes had a fight with the secretary; exports and imports; students in trouble; thumbtacks for the embassy.
writing littles needs
I always felt a little worm inside me: 'Now you need to write a novel with a woman protagonist.
writing angel
Death is the great Maecenas, Death is the great angel of writing. You must write because you are not going to live any more.
writing order stories
One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.
writing ends dies
You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.
writing needs imagine
I need, therefore I imagine.
dull would-be mystery
Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? Charles de Lint
dull influence authorship
There are both dull correctness and piquant carelessness; it is needless to say which will command the most readers and have the most influence. Charles Caleb Colton
dull want littles
If you want a little fear and terror because your life is dull, get a future. Terrifying! Byron Katie
dull would-be world
There are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world without them. Arthur Conan Doyle
dull grown land learning project
This project has just grown and grown. First the land and then the house. There's never a dull moment, we're always learning something new. Davy Cowie
dull significant
The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times. Jan Karon
dull cost one-thing
One thing must be avoided at all costs: narrow-mindedness, pedantry, dull pettiness. Bruno Schulz
dull information way
Now, scholars can be very useful and necessary, in their own dull and unamusing way. They provide a lot of information. It's just that there is Something More, and that Something More is what life is really all about. Benjamin Hoff
dull mostly newspapers
American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them. Tina Brown