#book

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

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I love books. ↗

— Reese Witherspoon

#i #i love #love

And what could be a hotter ticket than the improbable triumph of 'The Book of Mormon,' the musical-comedy moon shot of the season? Its creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, of Comedy Central's 'South Park,' are the most unlikely Rodgers and Hammerstein team ever to bowl a thundering strike. ↗

— James Wolcott

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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

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What's happening to movie critics is no different from what has been meted out to book, dance, theater, and fine-arts reviewers and reporters in the cultural deforestation that has driven refugees into the diffuse clatter of the Internet and Twitter, where some adapt and thrive - such as Roger Ebert - while others disappear without a twinkle. ↗

— James Wolcott

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The story drove the book. That had a very seminal effect on the way I saw writing and storytelling. If you can set a character in a story that is compelling and has a backbone, you draw people in. ↗

— Dick Wolf

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There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie. ↗

— Dick Wolf

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Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a book will have, and advertising seems to do very little good. ↗

— Thomas Wolfe

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