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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.


Buchi Emecheta

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I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO The price of an e-book is a lot less than the price that we're charging for a hardcover book. It...
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ANN PATCHETT What we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. There are people we trust b...
STEPHEN R. COVEY As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you...
BERNHARD SCHLINK As soon as I finish one thing, there's always something else on the horizon I want to do. I don&...
MARLA GIBBS I guess patriarchal stereotypes have, as is true for most people, created painful moments in my life...
THANDIE NEWTON I bought a lot of rubbish things that kids buy: skateboards and clothes and typical teenage stuff. A...
TOM FELTON My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a chi...
MANIKA I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I jus...
BEYONCE KNOWLES As soon as I touched the mic, I knew that's what I would do for the rest of my life.
LESLIE JONES I've come to think of Europe as a hardcover book, America as the paperback version.
DON DELILLO The publishers, as I remember at the very beginning of my career, wrote letters with their fountain ...
JAMES SALTER It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
OTTMAR HITZFELD I was born on TV, meaning that's where I caught my break. So that's where I always have to b...
TAYLOR HICKS When a series is doing well, it's very tempting to keep writing it, even when the creative well ...
KELLEY ARMSTRONG I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also be...
J. A. JANCE While I was writing 'Stick Out Your Tongue' in Beijing, the police began knocking on my door...
MA JIAN I want to work on respecting individuals' dignity. Equal rights, that's where my heart is. T...
CHRISTINE GREGOIRE No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.
CHRISTIE HEFNER As far I'm working on The life Of one Kid 7... continue!
DEYTH BANGER My books should feel like you're getting a peek into a private world: a diary no one was meant t...
JEFFREY BROWN I'm 21 years old, and it's kind of uncomfortable for me to talk about, but I'm in the 1 ...
HALSEY As a youngster, I had friends who became lawyers and doctors, and I was as idealistic as anybody. Wh...
WILLIAM SANDERSON I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is ...
TED BELL Nothing with me has been different, just our situation, ... I don't worry about where I start up at,...
AHMAN GREEN I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC s...
DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.
EAVAN BOLAND I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
LARRY HAGMAN I'm thankful for the ability to share my faith in a lot of different places. It's something ...
TIM TEBOW I haven't got as much money as some folks, but I've got as much impudence as any of them, an...
JOSH BILLINGS As far as I'm concerned, as soon as you reach your goal, then that's the box ticked for me. ...
LIZZIE ARMITSTEAD My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will ...
J. A. KONRATH If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.'...
DAN BROWN 'Adbusters' is my favourite reading material, so as soon as you go there, the synapses start...
RAINE MAIDA I like to think 'The God Delusion' is a humorous book. I think, actually, it's full of l...
RICHARD DAWKINS 'Envy the Night' was my first stand alone, the first book I'd written in the third perso...
MICHAEL KORYTA Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It'...
GRETCHEN RUBIN When I was 18, and when I entered my family business, I soon realised that it wasn't as easy as ...
BINOD CHAUDHARY I'm lucky. As soon as I open my mouth, people see I know what I'm talking about, and when I ...
ERTHARIN COUSIN Three publishers came to me at the White House after George lost and said, 'We would like to pub...
BARBARA BUSH I really wasn't planning to move as early as I did, but he was doing everything so easily I didn't w...
GARRETT GOMEZ I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of...
JERRY FALWELL As far as sustaining our popularity, I believe we can.
VINCE MCMAHON I then vowed to finally finish the years-late sequel to my best-selling book The Absolutely True Dia...
SHERMAN ALEXIE That's SHIT!

How do you remove it?
You just put it inside the trash, easy as that.
DEYTH BANGER If I don't book a job, I like to see it not as a rejection but as a redirection to something dif...
BELLA HADID I don't believe in diets. They don't necessarily work. What they do is scrub your weight dow...
PAUL HOLLYWOOD I'm not good with sci-fi stuff. I'll be in it, as long as I can see what I'm dealing wit...
CHELAN SIMMONS I am a book reviewer. I write for a glossy magazine called 'SCI FI.' The money is not life-c...
ADAM-TROY CASTRO I always feel like 'as long as I'm doin' what I love to do, the money's naturally go...
AKON I feel like there's different kinds of evil and there's different kinds of villains, and as ...
RACHELLE LEFEVRE As soon as I read that, it clicked: that's my theater of war. It was exciting to think that I co...
MICHAEL CHABON I have turned my entire attention to Greek. The first thing I shall do, as soon as the money arrives...
DESIDERIUS ERASMUS I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
GAIL CARSON LEVINE Lord take me as I am just the way I am. Set my soul ablaze, never quench the flame
VENES As a business man, I can only thank German politicians for helping to sell my movie. As a democrat, ...
ANIL SAHIN I don't sit around with my friends and talk about money, ever. On a record, that's different...
JAY-Z When I go in the studio, I put myself into a place where I'm feeling something I want to portray...
JAMIE XX Routinely, when I finish a book, I think 'What will I do? Where will I get an idea?' And a k...
PHILIP ROTH At nine years old, I was presented an opportunity to move to Toronto to train for pairs dancing. As ...
RACHEL MCADAMS I'm really a family girl. My mom's like, 'As soon as you're on your own, we're g...
CARLY SCHROEDER This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over...
EDGAR WRIGHT I came from a country where religious fundamentalists, including governmental authorities, denied my...
TASLIMA NASRIN There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get mar...
CLINT EASTWOOD I see my role as a translator, telling the story that's in the book using the more visual langua...
JANE GOLDMAN I know that if I went to other studios, like in Vancouver, that those are set up to be as profession...
BILLY SHERWOOD I am not a lobbyist. I am not a political activist. I am not a leader, as far as I'm concerned.
JOSE ANTONIO VARGAS I'm not funny. Never have been and, as far as I can tell, I never will be.
DAVID DOBKIN In school, my favorite subject was math. That's where I learned to count money.
FRENCH MONTANA I was so in debt by the end of 'Dust Devil,' having picked up the tab personally for the pos...
RICHARD STANLEY I look for roles that allow me to immerse in different worlds, immerse in worlds that are different ...
EDGAR RAMIREZ Because I've been around forever and ever, like wallpaper, people ask me for secrets... it's...
LULU It's kind of my whole philosophy as an actor. I think that's what we're supposed to do i...
GARRET DILLAHUNT As a pastor and as a dad, I want my son to know I tell the truth. He can read the book. He knows if ...
TODD BURPO Almost as soon as I went vegan, people started telling me that my skin looked great, and that I appe...
STEVE-O ... As far I did it... I lost playing against my computer... and I won against my computer. So far t...
DEYTH BANGER The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as s...
VIKRAM SETH As soon as you take money for playing sport, it isn't sport, it's work.
AVERY BRUNDAGE I know in my soul when something feels like a sell out and I think for me, I knew that if I did the ...
ERIC AVERY Being in Los Angeles is this brutal awakening, where I feel not good enough as soon as I walk into a...
MARY LAMBERT My mother was keen that I complete my graduation and never ever wanted me to be in the movies, as my...
KARAN JOHAR I want to be a great player. I don't want to play for the money. I don't want to play for fa...
GAINES ADAMS When I am fully immersed in my work of nourishing humanity, it fills my head with all kinds of feel-...
ABHIJIT NASKAR My body's feeling it a little bit. But one good thing, my back is in good shape, and that's ...
MARIO LEMIEUX This is my chance to get out there and appease the fans of my music as well as show people that I do...
NICK CANNON I just would like to be challenged. I want to push myself to the limit, and constantly challenge mys...
IMANI HAKIM Maybe then I can finish my book.
CALVIN & HOBBES I don't care about the money. I just need, as an actor, to do as many different things that I ca...
DAVID MORSE Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizin...
MELISSA LEO I need to have some depth in my characters. That's why they are all Bengalis. I can't imagin...
UPAMANYU CHATTERJEE As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consu...
KAMLA PERSAD-BISSESSAR I try to keep all my novels in print. Sometimes publishers don't agree with me as to their worth...
EVAN HUNTER I can't watch other people doing comedy. As soon as somebody starts being funny I have to turn o...
JENNY ECLAIR I used to write when I was in the mood or felt inspired. Anymore, I write whether I feel inspired or...
DONALD MILLER I have kept a diary,
WITHNAIL AND I When I was in my 20s, I thought I knew who I was. And then as soon as I turned 30, I realized that p...
SAM WORTHINGTON I wasn't a vegan when I came to Congress. It was a decision I made soon after I got here, and it...
TED DEUTCH Only fools wait, and only tools bait.
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