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When I first started writing, I wrote a book called 'Bruiser,' and it was pretty much set in Chicago.

Writing Book Chicago First Pretty

I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.

Me Book Important Everything Assume

I actually have, in all seriousness, in the back of my mind someday to write a book, the title of which would be 'Quit Now and Other Practical Advice for the Aspiring Actor.'

Mind Book Advice Back Quit Actor

My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story', the over-arching grand plot of the entire series, and there is the complete-in-itself, one-book plot.

Juliet Marillier

Book Story Advice Fantasy Big Plot

I remember vividly what it's like to read as a 10-year-old - that passionate inhabiting of a book.

Book Remember Passionate Like Read

The Book of Mormon exposes the enemies of Christ. It confounds false doctrines and lays down contention.

Ezra Taft Benson

Book Down Enemies False Christ Lays

Growing up, I mostly read comic books and sci-fi. Then I discovered the book 'Jane Eyre' by Jane Austen. It introduced me to the world of romance, which I have since never left. Also, the world of the first-person narrative.

Me Growing Up World Book Growing Up

Every time I finish a book, I forget everything I learned writing it - the information just disappears out of my head.

Time Writing Book Information Forget

To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.

Aleister Crowley

Me Book Never Mankind Message Gods

The wonderful thing about a book is that you have a canvas that is 300 pages wide, and it's all free space. You can make a piece of art as big as you want and whatever shape you want.

Art Space Book Free You Want

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'

Time Book Remember First Time First

I actually feel, when I get to about page 200, that it's going to be a book after all! It never gets easier - when you conquer one problem, another one rises up to take its place.

Book Conquer Feel Problem You Place

I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.

Eyes Art Book Kind Same Big

I could write a whole other book called 'I'm Judging You, America!' I still might.

Book America You Judging Write

'Piaf' I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, 'You have to do it.'

Me Book Someone You Said More

A publisher - and I write as one - does far more than print and sell a book. It selects, nurtures, positions and promotes the writer's work.

Jonathan Galassi

Work Book More Write Sell Print

My mother is a huge fan of my work. I told her about 'Coraline' long before the film was made, and she got the book and read it. She reminded me that when I was about five years old, I used to sit in the kitchen for hours and talk about my 'other' family in Africa, my other mother and father. I had totally forgotten that.

Work Family Father Mother Me Book

In seventh grade, with some vague sense that I wanted to be a writer, I crouched in the junior high school library stacks to see where my novels would eventually be filed. It was right after someone named Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. So I grabbed a Vonnegut book, 'Breakfast of Champions' and immediately fell in love.

Love School Breakfast Book Library

Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.

Me Writing Start Action Book Long

I sent in tons of submissions and proposals, and I collected my share of form rejection letters. Eventually, I found myself working at a comic book shop, where I met my future collaborator Brian Hurtt.

Future Myself Book Rejection Letters

If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration camps occupy two pages and the gas chambers ten or 15 lines, and that's what one calls a detail.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

War People Detail World Book You

The comic book world is a tough business.

Business World Book Tough Comic Book

A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.

Time Walk Gold Book You Treasure

I wanted to see my name on the cover of a book. If your name is in the Library of Congress, you're immortal.

Book Library Name You Congress See

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