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Eventually someone will find out the truth. It could be you.
— Criag Whitman
I first had the idea of writing a popular book about the universe in 1982. My intention was partly to earn money to pay my daughter's school fees.
— Stephen Hawking
I guess my most prized pop culture possession is a signed first edition of the book 'Fight Club' by Chuck Palahniuk.
— Jen Lancaster
F you'd crack a book, you'd appreciate the connection, but then again, you'd have to learn to read first. -Silas
— Andrea Cremer
John Updike's first published book was a collection of poems.
— Jonathan Galassi
I've been trying for two years to read this book, and I never get past these first few pages.
— Paulo Coelho
Everything has already begun before, the first line of the first page of every novel refers to something that has already happened outside the book.
— Italo Calvino
The first time I remember really being excited about a book was 'The Count of Monte Cristo.'
— Scott Turow
I hate sequels. They're never as good as the first book.
— Connie Willis
Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear.
— Thucydides
A subject which at first glance seems quite removed from the undeclared concern of the book can encapsulate that concern.
— W.G. Sebald
Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy.
— Joe Meno
That you should not be here when something we've both wanted happens is no new thing for me. Today too, as always, you're not here.
— Sachin Kundalkar
When I first opened this book and saw all those scholarly footnotes, my heart leapt up as though I saw a host of golden daffodils.
— Steven Moore
In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.
— Kit Carson
I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books.
— Alan Shepard
I'm about to read Scott Turow's 'Innocent.' I've been hungry for this book since he first told me it was in the works. I'm a serious Turow fan.
— Ridley Pearson
I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket.
— Philipp Meyer
My first book was rejected nine times. It turned out to be a best seller, Battle Cry? in 1953.
— Leon Uris
Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know.
— Desiderius Erasmus
This whole book is composed of first pages.
— Helene Cixous
They did it quite a lot after that first encounter" ... when Jill remembers first meeting the dashing Baron.
— Lisa McKnight
When I think of my wife, I always think of her head.
— Gillian Flynn
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
— Joan Collins
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
— Jan Karon
The Bible is the funniest book I have ever read. It's so funny! Right in the first six pages, it's funny!
— David Cross
The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
— Walter Kaufmann
I am sure of this: that no one can write a book which children will like unless he write it for himself first.
— A.A. Milne
The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not.
— Melanie Crowder
I had always wanted to include images in a novel, and with my first book, 'Telex From Cuba,' I made an elaborate website that is basically all images.
— Rachel Kushner
For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.
— Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire
I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.
— Willa Cather
I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea.
— William Peter Blatty
I work for two years on a book and it comes out and two days later I've got my first e-mail: When is the next one coming out?
— George R R Martin
I feared that if I let him, it would be the final push over a ledge I had been precariously hovering on since the day I had first laid eyes on him.
— Nicole R. Locker
No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.
— Van Wyck Brooks
If you want to do this - either write for TV, or write books - the first thing you have to do is write a lot. And I mean a ridiculous amount.
— Josh Lieb
The first chess book that I read was Dufresne's self-tutor, published with Lasker's Common Sense in Chess as an appendix.
— Vasily Smyslov
I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11 ... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?'
— Kenneth Branagh
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
— Ben Marcus
Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.
— Marguerite Yourcenar
I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
— Jack Canfield
No one is capable of loving you like you can love you. Embrace your uniqueness; your uniqueness is what makes you special and great.
— Shay Dawkins
People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to.
— Gayle Forman
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor.
— Edward St. Aubyn
I was going to do a book about the first prearranged Karpov-Kasparov match, '84-'85. But the God-damn Jews have stolen my entire file on that.
— Bobby Fischer
I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
— Michael Cunningham
If I were her? First thing I'd do is torch my little black book and start over again. Because the men that woman attracts are just plain odd.
— Elizabeth Bevarly
Focus on writing first.
— Lyra Parish
It was more exciting to get that first book published, I think.
— Robert McCloskey
When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.
— Cornelia Funke
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.
— Myrtle Reed
I was lucky in getting my first book published; my first book was 'Bunnicula,' which I wrote with my late wife Debbie, for the fun of it.
— James Howe
Unfortunately, there is not a book in the Bible called First and Second Executive or Letter to the Christian Plumbers. Instead,
— William, Executive Editor Messenger
Book the First - Recalled to Life
— Charles Dickens
You should never try and teach a pig to read for two reasons. First, it's impossible; and secondly, it annoys the hell out of the pig!.
— Will Rogers
We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey.
— Kathryn Joyce
A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.
— Craig Mercier
I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.
— Virginia Madsen
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided to begin with Everest.
— Joe Abercrombie
A great book increases my heartbeat as if I'm prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.
— Carmen DeSousa
I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
— Jonathan Franzen
Silver-the first book of dreams
— Kerstin Gier
Feathers fell from the sky. Like black snow, they drifted onto an old city called Bath.
— Stefan Bachmann
When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it.
— Martha Grimes
Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day.
— Jason Aaron
'Britain's Royal Families' became my first published book, in 1989, from The Bodley Head, and the rest of the story is - dare I say it? - history!
— Alison Weir
When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.
— Mahmoud Darwish
So I eagerly crack open the book and can feel myself getting smarter as I turn the first few pages.
— Matthew Quick
When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd.
— Rick Wakeman
I started writing when I was twenty, and my first book came out seventeen years later.
— David Sedaris
I don't remember when exactly I read my first comic book, but I do remember exactly how liberated and subversive I felt as a result.
— Edward W. Said
What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence?
— Kathy L. Patrick
Contents Book the First - Recalled to Life I. The Period II. The Mail III. The Night Shadows
— Charles Dickens
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
The first sentence of a book is a handshake, perhaps an embrace.
— Jhumpa Lahiri
Fewer things leave a deeper mark on the reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book?
— Michael De Luca
I was dropped by my publisher after my first two books. But I always believed in myself.
— John Boyne
My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.
— Gary Shteyngart
Still, I believe the first draft of a book - even a long one - should take no more than three months, the length of a season.
— Stephen King
Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.
— Jim C. Hines
When you meet someone for the first time, that's not the whole book. That's just the first page.
— Brody Armstrong
I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
— Malcolm Gladwell
I spent the first 18 years of my life in the pastoral town of Vernal, Utah, in the shadows of the Book Cliffs and the Uinta Mountains.
— Gordon Gee
One of my favorite first sentences of a
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier
book is from Rebecca, Last night I dreamt
I went to Manderley again. — Daphne Du Maurier