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I want my books to last, to stand the test of time, and to do that I focus on the forces that shape the subject - the cultural and sociological geography - to capture them in a way that will explain them no matter what they are doing.


David Maraniss


#capture #cultural #doing #explain #focus

I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in.


Jason Marsden


#certain #distracted #easily #extremely #grab

The idea of a flip book still really appeals to me. That idea of fiction and non-fiction.


Yann Martel


#book #fiction #flip #idea #me

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.


Moby


#college #community #community college #i #life

Other people, including me, have written books with main characters who were old and rich. Or old and brilliant. Old sages, old wizards, old rich people.


Elizabeth Moon


#brilliant #characters #including #main #me

Miss a meal if you have to, but don't miss a book.


Jim Rohn


#meal #miss #you

It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.


Kevin Brooks


#life

Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.


Kate Mosse


#decide #i #next #reading #usually

To me I think artists in general make a statement - and for the rest of their lives - every album, every book - are variations on a theme.


Mark Mothersbaugh


#artists #book #every #general #i

I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.


Helmut Newton


#before #books #down #everything #forget






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