#book

I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now. ↗

— Donna Leon

#because #book #books #happens #i

I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! ↗

— Matthew Lesko

#bestseller #book #bragging #copied #first

Often the magical elements in my books are standing in for elements of the real world, the small and magical-in-their-own-right sorts of things that we take for granted and no longer pay attention to, like the bonds of friendship that entwine our own lives with those of other people and places. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#bonds #books #elements #friendship #granted

I got $30 from Nation magazine for a poem and $500 for my first book of poems. ↗

— Jim Harrison

#first #got #i #magazine #nation

All I know is that I carried you for nine months. I fed you, I clothed you, I paid for your college education. Friending me on Facebook seems like a small thing to ask in return. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#mothers-and-daughters #education

I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished. ↗

— Alistair Maclean

#darned #days #each #finished #flat

Our audience is all the girls who made Britney a huge star. Those are the girls who bought the book. I didn't read the book at first. I read the script just to see what I would think of the script and I really liked it. ↗

— Virginia Madsen

#book #bought #britney #first #huge

The most attention I get is in a book store or video shop when I go to the foreign film section. Sometimes that can be fun, but usually those women want to talk about philosophy or something very dense. It's not like they're tearing off my shirt, you know. ↗

— Tobey Maguire

#attention #book #dense #film #foreign

It is a good idea to know which publishers publish which stories. For example, there is no sense in sending a picture book text to a publisher who does not publish picture books. ↗

— Margaret Mahy

#books #does #example #for example #good

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing. ↗

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#astounding #books #craft #craftsmanship #faulkner