I went to school, I went to college. I know how to read. Even though I lack common sense sometimes, I am book smart.
Nicole Polizzi
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We came to say, the Quran is our constitution, we are committed to God and his holy book. God willing, should they try to carry out their crime against the Quran, God will tear their state apart and they will become God's lesson to anyone who tries to desecrate the holy book.
Ismail Haniyeh
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I don't think my first book was chick lit.
Lisa Jewell
BookThinkFirstLitChick
The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.
Justine Bateman
TimeBookFamousWriteOnlyMost
Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum and dad, 'I'm going to write a book. You'll see.' So when I did ,and it was published, and people liked it, it was great.
David Thewlis
GreatPeopleMeBookProudYou
Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
Ezra Pound
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I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.
Melissa Marr
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You know, I've never been a comic book person, just because that's not my gig and I don't have a television.
Allison Mack
BookYouTelevisionPersonKnow
I actually didn't listen to the Beatles song 'Nowhere Man' when I was writing my book of the same name. What I listened to a lot was 'Abbey Road.' Its disjointedness and its readiness to confuse only to delight were inspiring to me.
Aleksandar Hemon
ManMeWritingSongBookRoad
There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's head.
Stephenie Meyer
MoonBookEndingNewHeadDifferent
I came in with a very specific idea about what a Doctor Strange movie should be, which was rooted in the comics, and I thought it should be as weird and as visually ambitious compared to modern comic book movies as the comic was when it showed up in the '60s compared to other comic books at the time.
Scott Derrickson
TimeDoctorBookThoughtWeirdUp
It seems to be the way I get jobs - I book a holiday, I get to the other side of the world, then I'll get the job.
Margot Robbie
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I write with a sense of my future readers being ever on the verge of setting down the book and pronouncing it a bore. Fear and insecurity are great motivators.
Mary Roach
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If you've got comic book fans and soap fans and country fans, I think you've hit the whole world. What else is there?
Lindsay Hartley
WorldBookThinkYouCountryFans
Every word I wrote in my book is documented, certified, true, and correct. The truth wins, and that is my picture.
Ehud Olmert
TruthBookPictureTrueWordWins
I like reading Ball Tongue lyrics and all that stuff. And they published a book, and I wouldn't give my lyrics, and it's all wrong in the book, and I giggle. It's funny.
Jonathan Davis
FunnyBookReadingTongueWrong
Twenty years ago, I wrote a book called 'It Takes a Village.' And a lot of people looked at the title and asked, 'What the heck do you mean by that?' This is what I mean. None of us can raise a family, build a business, heal a community or lift a country totally alone.
Hillary Clinton
FamilyBusinessCommunityAloneBook
Dynasty was the opportunity to take charge of my career rather than waiting around like a library book waiting to be loaned out.
Joan Collins
OpportunityWaitingBookLibraryOut
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief.
Chuck Palahniuk
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When I wrote the Anita Hill book I believed everything I wrote was accurate.
David Brock
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I think the suicides in my first book came from the idea of growing up in Detroit. If you grow up in a city like that you feel everything is perishing, evanescent and going away very quickly.
Jeffrey Eugenides
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Conventional forms of narrative allow for different points of view, but for this book I wanted a structure whereby each of the main characters contributed a distinctive version of the story.
Penelope Lively
BookStoryViewStructureNarrative
Children's authors have to pick words that reflect the spirit of a book and convey its message but also words that light children up, that children will recognize. Words that inspire and comfort. Words that challenge yet don't patronize. Words that, well, mean something to them.
Rebecca Serle
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I've always wanted to do a project with space imagery because I've always loved these amazing sci-fi electro book covers. I've always loved science fiction. I feel like space imagery has no boundaries.
Robert Coppola Schwartzman
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