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I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train. — Ben Fountain

He always took his meals alone, with an open book before him, which he read. — Victor Hugo

My father from long habit took a book with him to the table and then, remembering my presence, furtively dropped it under his chair. — Evelyn Waugh

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge. — Alberto Manguel

After I read David Suzuki's book, I took salmon from my dinner plate and I buried it in the woods, hoping to assist the growth of a large tree. — Ned Hayes

In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved. — Willis Lamb

I watch James's face. His expression is an open book to me, because I took the time to learn the language many years ago. — Cristin Terrill

After the book took off, I bought a whole new wardrobe. — Terry Goodkind

Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again. — Maud Hart Lovelace

Thirteen years I took on this last book. — Gay Talese

Good books that often I would hate to finish because they took me into their lives and let me out of mine, for a while anyway. — Ron McLarty

They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely. — Gustave Flaubert

You may well ask me why ... I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all. — George Bernard Shaw

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book! — Rachel Tucker

Book collecting is a full-time occupation, and one wouldn't get far if one took time off for frivolities like reading. — A.N.L. Munby

Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertaker book. — Joe Frazier

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures — Tawni O'Dell

Sophie took the book out of his hand. 'Nicholas Nickleby,' she read aloud. 'By Dahl's Chickens,' the BFG said. 'By who?' Sophie said. — Roald Dahl

Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it. — Truman Capote

You took out a book on blow-job technique from the British Library? They shouldn't have books like that in there! — Sarra Manning

Everyone always looked at the cover and never took the time to read the book. — Angela Scott

Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that. — Michael Morpurgo

I took a page from [the playwright] Wendy Wasserstein's book. She said 'I'm not a feminist, I'm a humanist.' — Sarah Jessica Parker

And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts. — Cornelia Funke

I shrugged and took a page from the stupid girl book and flicked my hair over my shoulder. — Ilsa Madden-Mills

It took an error in his training and a Christian lab partner to redeem him. — Susan Lower

Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French I took. — Sam Cooke

Rick decided to publish it himself. To promote the book, he took a booth at a regional — Jack Canfield

There's my education in computers, right there; this is the whole thing, everything I took out of a book. — Howard Aiken

All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written in a book never could. — Tamora Pierce

Dear Sir or Madam, will you read my book?
It took me years to write, will you take a look? — Nancy Lynn Jarvis

I always saw there was more to be learnt outside a book than in; and I took my steps accordingly, or I shouldn't have been the man I am. — Thomas Hardy

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days. — Tony Ross

It took seven years from the day I decided I wanted to write fiction to actually getting a book published. — Cynthia Kadohata

Please read the book slowly because it took me a long time to write. — A.W. Rock

I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf. — Deborah Lawrenson

Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place. — Margery Allingham

He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course, because he was perfect. — Cora Carmack

I took out the book once more. Snails can sleep for three years without eating. Snail comas. Welcome to my world. — Shelly Crane

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain. — Jerry Spinelli

My book is already online. I can type 150 words a minute. I took typing in high school. — Burton Cummings

You took my life and Oliver's life and made them into this book. You made us into monsters, both of us. — Mackenzi Lee

By reading a book, one can learn in a matter of days what it took the author an entire lifetime to learn — Pastor John Weaver

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world. — Annie Dillard