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Book buying is a relationship activity, and you need a means to develop relationships with readers and new fans of your work — Barb Drozdowich

...A book connects you to the universe like a cell phone connects you to the Internet...But it only work if your battery's not dead. Mr. Nowak — Paul Acampora

I often lose myself in the Sudoku-like challenges of making a book work. — David Mitchell

When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books. — Fanny Fern

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work. — James Frey

A book indeed sometimes debauched me from my work ... — Benjamin Franklin

Writers have it easy. If you write a bestseller or have your book made into a movie, you'll never have to work again, or so the myth goes. — Sara Sheridan

I always work from an outline, so I know all the of the broad events and some of the finer details before I begin writing the book. — Mercedes Lackey

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

We believe in books. Somehow we want to make childhood better, and we believe that a book given at the right moment can work magic in a child's life. — Ann Schlee

Your time is your time. Be awake to it. It's hard work to be wisely alive. — Carew Papritz

The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic. — Tony Romo

If you're looking to find a career that makes a difference - and work you really love - this book will show you how. — Paul Allen

I thought I had a great opportunity when I started doing my comic book in 1972. I thought there was so much territory to work in. — Harvey Pekar

A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. — Paul Dirac

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! — Charles Darwin

Throw away the rule book and create your own. — Sandra Bellamy

The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

Few authors are so interesting as their work - they generally reserve their wit or trenchant sarcasm for their books. — Alec-Tweedie

I still enjoy the tactile sensation of holding a book. But when I need to read fast for work, I use the Kindle App on my iPad. — Jonathan Tropper

I've always wanted to do a photo book, but I've never done one because I've never felt ready; I just didn't feel my work was good enough. — Lynsey Addario

I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash. — Anthony Browne

Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person. — Amy Smith

You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control. — Sara Gruen

Shorter work - personal essays and book reviews - allow me to take a break from working on a book, which is good for the book and for its author. — Kathryn Harrison

Some writers may never create a work. Their purpose is to help others create their first word. — Darnell Lamont Walker

I think so often, especially if the work is perceived of as being drawn from life, the woman, not her book, is reviewed. — Kate Zambreno

A dose of poison can do its work but once. A bad book can go on poisoning minds for generations. — William Murray, 1st Earl Of Mansfield

I'm always reading. I have four books on my nightstand right now. The same is true with writing, I tend to work on several varying projects at once. — Colette Freedman

(Agent: This book doesn't work. Shane: You mean, in your opinion. Agent: I mean in English). — Jess Walter

I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere. — Randa Abdel-Fattah

When your Book of Life is written, will the chapter on work be an anthology of salary slips? — Gyan Nagpal

Generally a chef's book is like a calling card or a portfolio to display their personal work. — Sally Schneider

The Number One Rule of Working Is: DO THE BEST WORK YOU CAN. Why do anything but your best? What's the point? — Carew Papritz

Every book you've ever read on LEADERSHIP will finally make sense (and become practical) if you change the word "leader" to INFLUENCER. — Richie Norton

(If plan KTB kill the bastard) didn't work, well, gray would resort to Plan B: Operation Oh Sh** — Gena Showalter

One way to be aware of it, to teach to yourself, is simply to read work aloud. I love reading the endings of books aloud when I start nearing the end. — Paul Lisicky

The professional guts a book through - in full knowledge that what he is doing is not very good. Not to work is to exhibit a failure of nerve. — John Gregory Dunne

All great movies have one thing in common: every frame of every scene could stand alone as a work of art. Why should it be different in a book? — Sean Hinn

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle — Bruce Wayne Sullivan

HOLIDAY MEANS HOLIDAY; DON'T BE TEMPTED TO WORK ON YOUR WEEK OFF

FROM THE BOOK PROGRAMMED SHEEP — Lord M.A. Fricker

-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."
-"If you knew how little you had to revenge...". — Graham Greene

I'd really like to write a book about Timothy McVeigh, but it would only work if he cooperated. — Elizabeth Wurtzel

Do I love laziness more than I love the feeling of accomplishing work? I take the path of least resistance and curl up with a book. — Sylvia Plath

If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work. — Tucker Max

There's this creative thing in me that wants to have my work used - like the author of a book who wants it read. — James Goodnight

I didn't go to Latin America thinking, 'I'm gonna write a book. This is what I'm gonna do.' I went there to work for UNICEF and to learn. — Jenna Bush

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree? — Robert Green Ingersoll

I came home from work one day and felt compelled to write a book about free will. — James Tagg

All I want from this book is a living, enough money to make a living, buy a farm and some land, work it, write some more, travel a little, and so on. — Jack Kerouac

In books, or work, or healthful play. — Isaac Watts

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those who get published. — Lee Gutkind

When I began, I thought that the way one should work was to do all the research and then write the book. — David McCullough

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book. — Danica Patrick

I wrote 'Sophie's World' in three months, but I was only writing and sleeping. I work for 14 hours a day when I'm working on a book. — Jostein Gaarder

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.
Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell. — Tahereh Mafi

I still have a steady stream of book cover work. I'm grateful for it. Viva le book! — Chip Kidd

The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work. — Rachel Gibson

Information that a book possesses is made of time — Sunday Adelaja

And yet rereading a book can often be a more significant, dramatic, and, yes, new experience than encountering an unfamiliar work. — Alan Jacobs

My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work. — Tryon Edwards

Oh, I could never go back to that work, it's so dreary and the last thing the world needs is another coffee table book. — Peter Cameron

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created. — Jonathan Galassi

Writers who want to interfere with adaptations of their work are basically undemocratic. The book still stands as an entity on its own. — Jim Crace

Nothing worth doing is easy," frank said. "Especially not in the beginning. But I'm not about to give up. — Morgan Matson

Every time I get through the work on a book of nonfiction, I say I'll never do it again; it takes so much out of you. — Dave Eggers

Are there sexual fetishes that involve books? There must be. I try not to imagine how they might work. — Robin Sloan

They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas. — Emil Ruder

The power of a text is not time-bound. The words go on doing their work. — Jeanette Winterson

Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist. — Chris Columbus

My work comprises one vast book like Proust's except that my remembrances are written on the run instead of afterwards in a sick bed. — Jack Kerouac

Some things work better as a book, some things work better as a story, some things works better as a film. — Jonathan Nolan

When you do your first book, you're just like, "This is my work." And it's just this whole other world that you throw yourself into. — Bryan Lee O'Malley

Turning the blog into a book was extremely difficult, a tremendous amount of sustained, hard work. Blogging is easy; writing a book is difficult. — Kate Christensen

Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world. — Jeanette Winterson

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby. — Evelyn Waugh

One English nobleman and statesman read and reread a particular work of literature because it was the only book which allowed him to forget politics. — Barbara W. Tuchman

It could be a work of fiction, or history, or both - a long book exploding out of this central place in a hundred directions. — Stephen King

I get very invested in characters, it's the only way I find that I can write a book and really make it work. — Gail Simone

There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on. — Sam Abell

I love going to writers' colonies in pastoral settings where there's nothing to do, but either walk around or read a book or work on your book. — Andrew Sean Greer

Publicity doesn't work for books. It really doesn't. All it does is get your name in front of a reader who might then glance at your book. Or not. — Kristine Kathryn Rusch

I happen to be the kind of author who in starting to work on a book has no purpose than to get rid of that book ... — Vladimir Nabokov

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books]. — Alice Walker

Christians remind me of schoolboys who want to look up the answers to their math problems in the back of the book rather than work them through. — Soren Kierkegaard

There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book is finished. — Claire Wingfield

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin

If you don't take your work seriously enough for proper editing, why should anyone take your book seriously enough to buy? — Mark Stone

He must have seen her shock, because he said, You can't defeat the power of the book. But you can make it work for you. — Kristine Grayson

Atheists tend to read only each other's books and not the work of the religious thinkers they are supposedly refuting. — Edward Feser

Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that. — Thomas Lennon

Me? I'm the original sad man. I read a book and it makes me sad. See a film: sad. Plays? they really work me over. — Ray Bradbury

Outside of my work as a comic book creator and co-publisher, I'm an avid gamer. — Jim Lee

The only books that work are those which fly through the air - the ones you let happen, not make happen. — Rosemary Wells

I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good."--Leigh Bardugo — Leigh Bardugo

Never use 'submit' as a verb for sending work to magazine or book publishers; say 'offer,' and never, ever submit. Keep your knees unbent. Be brave. — Frederick Busch

We shall dismiss these with the observation that their work does not concern "investors" as the term is used in this book. — Benjamin Graham

What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care. — Joan Rivers

Call me a troglodyte; I'd rather peruse those photos alongside my sweetheart, catch the newspaper on the way to work, and page thorough a real book. — Clifford Stoll

Nights without work I spend with whisky and books. — Haruki Murakami