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He was a lawyer and he knew that it would be best to trust his journalist friend, but not to tell his own lawyer — Haidji

If you want to make a movie out of my book, have one of these faces gently melt into my own, while I look. — Vladimir Nabokov

Horses ... horses made me happy, complete. Then and there in the middle of some state, in a wild state of being, I vowed I would own a horse again. — Carly Kade

You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone else had a chance to read it. — William Goldman

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul. — Claire Bloom

Sometimes I want to slap some of the characters with their own book. — Anonymous

Bonfire of the Vanities: The lesson of that book is, never start believing your own press. — Charles James

Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one's own self. — Franz Kafka

The Bible isn't a choose your own adventure book where everyone can just make up their own meaning. — Benjamin L. Corey

No one OWES you a THING. So don't EXPECT it. You're on your OWN. — Carew Papritz

The book of Isaiah is a tract for our own times; our very aversion to it testifies to its relevance. — Hugh Nibley

No human being who wants to read and own a book should ever have to go on a bended knee to get it. — Jonathan Kozol

I might as well doubt my own existence as to doubt the divine authenticity of the Book of Mormon or the divine calling of Joseph Smith. — Richard Lloyd Anderson

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

Thank you, I said. I have lived in my own book. One I never planned to write, recording time backwards and forwards. — Patti Smith

I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf. — Patti Smith

One 'Magic Formula' is for you to become your own best friend and your own biggest critic SIMULTANEOUSLY. — Shay Dawkins

Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend your own ideas of decency. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

A book, while it is being written, has an intense life of its own which you share. — Margaret Bourke-White

Every book is different with it's own personality just like children. — Cassandra Clare

A book brings its own history to the reader. — Alberto Manguel

Your own thoughts can be your worst enemy! — Tae Yun Kim

I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters. — Alan Dershowitz

I love the way that each book - any book - is its own journey. You open it, and off you go ... . — Sharon Creech

I sculpted for four or five years. Mostly for my own amusement, I decided to do a picture book, and that was kind of a turning point. — Chris Van Allsburg

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' — Arthur Smith

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors. — John Wesley

I own a book,' he thought, delighted (Paolini 291). — Christopher Paolini

For me, every book is an individual with its own identity and has to be nurtured and taken care
of, so that it may survive for a longer period. — Anurag Shourie

I own every book Stephen King has ever written."
"That's great. That's something to be proud of."
But did you read them, fuckface? — Caroline Kepnes

I don't believe in God or miracles, I believe in the human heart and our own strength to overcome and survive. ~Shannon~ — A. Giannoccaro

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own. — Daniel Kahneman

Every book I've written has been different from the others, and each one seems to have its own timeline, requirements, and formal challenges. — Micheline Aharonian Marcom

According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or even the Bible. — Maureen Corrigan

To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead ... seek God within your own soul. — John Smith

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs. — Amy Plum

Remember this always: The living of your own life writes the book of your most sacred truth, and offers evidence of it. — Neale Donald Walsch

Doing it your own way, not having to go exactly by the book to be successful. — Ice Cube

It's just a freak of fate that I'm paid to write, not paying to print my own books - but I'd be doing it anyway: it's my life. — Iain Sinclair

Write your dreams down, toss them into the sea, and make a wish, Isabel. Life is too short to live with regrets, own today as if it was your last. — A.M. Willard

We'd each roll to our side of the bed and let our own savior take us away. Soraya's was sleep. Mine, as always, was a book. — Khaled Hosseini

I'm quite happy trekking around Greenland on my own, but those big book tours in America or the Far East are the only time I ever really feel lonely. — Michelle Paver

What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book? — Francis Collins

Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about his books. — William F. Buckley Jr.

The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart. — Swami Vivekananda

Insomuch as the structure of this book parallels that of my own mind, it boasts about as much order and linearity as a hallucination. — Melody Moezzi

The easiest books are generally the best; for, whatever author is obscure and difficult in his own language, certainly does not think clearly. — Bill Vaughan

Seldom happier than when I'm on my own, lost in a book. — Martin Edwards

To own a certain book - and to choose it without help - is to define yourself. — Julian Barnes

The most difficult book you will ever read is your own heart. — Charles Haddon Spurgeon

But for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short. — Jane Austen

Our mind has a mind of its own. — Lauren Handel Zander

Between the lines of every book the writer reveals their own secrets. — Chloe Thurlow

If a book doesn't make you want to throw it aside and think your own thoughts, what use is it? — Lars Iyer

Because here's the thing about a book: when you pick up a story, you put down your own — Holly Smale

I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul. — Ignazio Silone

Listening to Led Zeppelin's Heartbreaker while reading your own book, sipping a beer after midnight, is a satisfying feeling...however fleeting. — Jonathan Heatt

Who can say they saw a whole play or read a whole book? Each has their own experience, their own play, their own book — Johnny Rich

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success — Herb Brooks

Each author has his or her own voice. I read each book slowly so I can see the patterns they use to spread out the garden of earthly delights. — Barbara Rosenblat

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author. — John Hodgman

Every writer hopes his or her book will be its own thing. — Elizabeth Kostova

It might be more difficult because you haven't got a book or a prop, but for the most part I like to write unpaid ... initially and my own stories. — Peter Morgan

Apple makes beautiful products. I own a Mac Pro, a Mac Book, a Mac Mini, an iPad, an iPhone, pretty much the entire collection. — Nick Denton

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. — Edgar Allan Poe

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? — Cesar Chavez

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book. — Rebecca Mead

Adapting your own book is like performing open-heart surgery on your own child. — Jonathan Tropper

I had a book of essays out in 1997 in which I talked about the increasing virtuality of our lives. I've always been afraid of that in my own life. — Steven Heighton

some debts a man keeps in his own ledger book, sir, even if the other fellow doesn't — J.A. Sutherland

A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction. — Craig Mercier

The book from which to learn religion, is your own mind. — Abhijit Naskar

Our patriarchal blessings are paragraphs from the book of our own possibilities. — Karl G. Maeser

Every book is its own black hole. Don't fight the pull; find out where it takes you. — Richelle E. Goodrich

I just want you, to be mine, forever. I want a piece of you no one else has ever had, and I want you to own my heart forever. — Ashley Beale

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock. — Lenny Kravitz

I focus on the words in front of me and continue reading the book that has now turned me into a voyeur through no fault of its own. — Ella Frank

To face a real daemon, you must first look inwards and conquer your own darkness. — Luis Marques

He swam against the hard current of the class bores - there were three - who could relate every incident in the book to something in their own lives. — Carol Anshaw

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own. — Alain De Botton

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

Every person writes his own book with the example of his life. — Casper Silk

Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules. — Saul Alinsky

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself. — Edward Abbey

Life is its own occasion; it does not need a reason to celebrate itself. — Heather K. O'Hara

I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making. — Carew Papritz

In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book. — Susan Minot

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman

I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to my own writing, in a competitive way. — Julia Glass

My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped. — Doris Lessing

Every day we live, we are writing our own secret book. — Chrys Fey

It is better to be the builder of our own name than to be indebted by descent for the proudest gifts known to the books of heraldry. — Hosea Ballou

Your own experience keeps taking you towards something. My book adds the hope that it's a better something. — Moon Unit Zappa

The fulfillment of God's promises can never be rushed. They will happen in their own time--even the success of a book. — Miranda A. Uyeh

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time. — William Landay

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house. — Dave Eggers

Having access to the library was all well and good, but as a collector you had to own the book. — John Baxter

An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own — Marilyn Vos Savant

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children. — Ray Bradbury