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My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.


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JOHN IRVING I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious...
JIM JARMUSCH Fahrenheit 451 is one of those books that is about how amazing books are and how amazing the people ...
JOSH LIEB My life's goal is not to write books; my life's goal is to know God better today. The neat t...
ANNE GRAHAM LOTZ My overall artistic goal is to marry graphic design with comic books and traditional storytelling.
JONATHAN HICKMAN 'Get Skinny' is my sixth book. I look over the books that I've written, and my subject m...
SUZANNE SOMERS Dialogue is the place that books are most alive and forge the most direct connection with readers. I...
LAINI TAYLOR I don't know where people got the idea that characters in books are supposed to be likable. Books ar...
JOHN GREEN My first duty to write a gripping yarn. Second is to convey credible characters who make you feel wh...
DAVID BRIN Our goal is to collect as many donated books as possible for a designated delivery before Christmas....
GREG WRIGHT I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad ju...
ADRIENNE MAYOR Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that a...
DEB CALETTI To whom do books belong? The books we read and the books we write are both ours and not ours. They'r...
PAMELA PAUL Russian literature has a sinister streak, and I think that influence is very evident on this record....
DIEGO GARCIA ...her dearest friends are characters in books.
SARAH J. MAAS The real bombs are my books, not me.
CARLOS FUENTES I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write.
KATHRYN LASKY I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,'_ 'tende...
RACHEL KUSHNER When people write fan-fic sequels to one of your books, it gives you a very strange feeling. It is v...
GERALDINE MCCAUGHREAN I suppose books are my real passion in life.
JOHN BOYNE We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black...
G. WILLOW WILSON When you realize my best selling books are 'Owl Moon,' the 'How Do Dinosaur' books, ...
JANE YOLEN Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren’t real, but they also know that books about unicor...
URSULA K. LE GUIN Most books are surplus to the world's requirements, and I am going to sound very conceited here,...
MICHEL FABER Somehow, I realized I could write books about black characters who reflected my own experiences or o...
TANANARIVE DUE I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
J. A. KONRATH Most of the books that feature supernatural characters blending with the modern world and are usuall...
CHARLAINE HARRIS If only education will aim at teaching learners’ real life and life in books and not just books, l...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH And after I compose my programs, but it is very easy because I look to the music in a very natural w...
VICTORIA DE LOS ANGELES Once the world has been created, the fantasy author still has to bring the story's characters to...
TONY BRADMAN I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. P...
A. S. BYATT I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the ...
SUZANNE COLLINS This program will help users discover more books, publishers sell more books and authors to ultimate...
ADAM SMITH Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative...
KEN FOLLETT I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will...
MICHAEL ROBOTHAM I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover oth...
PATRICIA REILLY GIFF In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far ...
DEYTH BANGER Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS Ezekiel Boone's books, starting with 'The Hatching' series, are meant to be big, sprawli...
ALEXI ZENTNER I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're abso...
SANDRA BROWN Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to w...
KAZUO ISHIGURO It comes a point in which you don't know if you write books or the books write you
ROBIN SACREDFIRE To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - un...
ALAN MOORE I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am...
CAROLINA HERRERA I am very happy when people write that they have worn out my books, or that they are held together b...
RICHARD SCARRY It is all very well to be able to write books, but can you waggle your ears?
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE There are enough books in the world. You want to write the ones that are good. The minute you write ...
MICHAEL LEWIS My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wis...
SHANNON L. ALDER I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in whic...
EVAN DANDO The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes a...
KEVIN KWAN Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
MASON COOLEY Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w...
PATRICIA BRIGGS I might not write fiction in the literary sense. But I write very well. My characters are good. My d...
JOY FIELDING Most of my books begin with a nap on my couch here, when I dream up characters and story lines, and ...
KARIN SLAUGHTER I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT I feel that the care of libraries and the use of books, and the knowledge of books, is a tremendousl...
ELEANOR ROOSEVELT There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES My writing books with positive gay characters has come more out of anger than anything else: anger a...
NANCY GARDEN I hate when people ask what a book is about. People who read for plot, people who suck out the story...
J.R. MOEHRINGER Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method...
WALTER BENJAMIN I read and write for character. If I like and can relate to the characters in a story I can enjoy an...
CHARLES DE LINT The real story is not the plot, but how the characters unfold by it.
VANNA BONTA Who is a great man? A great man is a person whom people are dying to write books about.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
TASLIMA NASRIN You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of int...
MAURICE SENDAK You cannot write for children. They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of in...
MAURICE SENDAK People talk about books that write themselves, and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It take...
NEIL GAIMAN I write books, bitch!
JUNNITA JACKSON My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they...
DARREN SHAN All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the ...
ALICE HOFFMAN What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characte...
SALMAN RUSHDIE Lots of kids, including my son, have trouble making the leap from reading words or a few sentences i...
RHEA PERLMAN I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want t...
JACKIE COLLINS One of the maddening ironies of writing books is that it leaves so little time for reading others...
MARY ROACH Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magi...
JEN CAMPBELL I used to write in school a lot; I always liked it and used to write on my own, comic books, come up...
RYAN COOGLER I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much m...
JACKIE COLLINS For anyone who's read the books, it will be really fun to see the characters come alive. We believe ...
GEORGE NELSON My grandfather read the 'John Carter of Mars' books to me when I was young.
DARYL SABARA The Big Book of Easy Suppers
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CHRONICLE BOOKS Highballs High Heels: A Girl's Guide to the Art of Cocktails
CHRONICLE BOOKS The Beatles Anthology
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EXO BOOKS Gangland: How the FBI Broke the Mob
POCKET BOOKS The Journey is the Destination
CHRONICLE BOOKS It's natural to fear death, as a conscious, thinking being - it's the literal end of you. I'm not ev...
EXO BOOKS In this moment, everything is sacred.
ARIEL BOOKS Sadly, history shows us that people literally scrambled their children's brains with heavy exposure ...
EXO BOOKS I love thinking of movie stars who could play the characters in the books I write. I think Charlize ...
KATHRYN LASKY If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word...
TARUN BETALA What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting char...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA Anyone can write an academic piece directed at other academics. To write something that delivers an ...
SIMON SCHAMA Some people act as though art that is for a mass audience is not good art, and I think this has been...
BELL HOOKS My experience is that books take on a life of their own and create their own energy. I've repres...
BILL CLEGG The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.
WALTER BAGEHOT I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
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JOHN MORTIMER No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent.
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JOHN CLAYTON In the surface of the paper there is only length and width-there is no such thing as thickness.
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JOHN CLAYTON What is the origin of God?
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JOHN CLAYTON The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing...
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JOHN CLAYTON There was no instruction to be thankful that the Christians were special people, chosen people. Ther...
JOHN CLAYTON It is my fervent hope and prayer that by exposing my mistakes and by pointing out the things that we...
JOHN CLAYTON We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is re...
JOHN CLAYTON The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God ...
JOHN CLAYTON Since I was an atheist for many years and came to believe in God through my studies in science, it f...
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JOHN MADDEN I'm not everybody's cup of tea. But sometimes criticism can be hurtful. Be respectful. I'...
ELTON JOHN The prison-industrial complex, poverty, and the school system has more effect on a young black male ...
JOHN LEGEND I have learned in fashion to be a little savage.
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JOHN PRESCOTT My consultant keeps telling me sudden death could come at any moment.
JOHN TAVENER As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you've allot...
JOHN BATTELLE When California was wild, it was the floweriest part of the continent.
JOHN MUIR Inherent in architecture, it involves everything in life so that there is absolutely no end to it. B...
JOHN LAUTNER My folks always let me go to the movies every Saturday. We were really motion-picture goers.
JOHN WAYNE I was ashamed to admit I was hipped to the idea of acting. That's why I started in with the prop...
JOHN WAYNE I've loved reading all my life.
JOHN WAYNE Nothing is so discouraging to an actor than to have to work for long hours upon hours in brightly li...
JOHN WAYNE I'd read up on the history of our country and I'd become fascinated with the story of the Al...
JOHN WAYNE Get off your butt and join the Marines!
JOHN WAYNE Everybody that I was in school with had an uncle or father in the law, and I started to realize that...
JOHN WAYNE Real art is basic emotion. If a scene is handled with simplicity - and I don't mean simple - it&...
JOHN WAYNE In westerns, you meet a hardy bunch of characters. There is no jealousy on such pictures.
JOHN WAYNE I was sure I'd set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the ...
JOHN WAYNE I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers ...
JOHN WAYNE All I'm for is the liberty of the individual.
JOHN WAYNE Nobody should come to the movies unless he believes in heroes.
JOHN WAYNE When you come to see a picture of mine, I want you to know that I'm not going to do anything tha...
JOHN WAYNE You learn a lot more from the lows because it makes you pay attention to what you're doing.
JOHN ELWAY I've experienced the highest of highs and lowest of lows. I think to really appreciate anything ...
JOHN ELWAY If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer ...
JOHN WOODEN Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't i...
JOHN LENNON Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.
JOHN LITHGOW Buildings should serve people, not the other way around.
JOHN PORTMAN No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
JOHN DONNE Self-righteousness has killed more people than smoking.
JOHN MCCARTHY If you don't interfere with me, I'll always do something really good.
JOHN MALKOVICH I think people took Grenada for what it turned out to be, which was a very specific incident and fro...
JOHN NEGROPONTE Generalizations, like brooms, ought not to stand in a corner forever; they ought to sweep as a matte...
JOHN LUKACS Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.
JOHN WOODEN The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
JOHN MILTON I'm not interested in my legacy. I made up a word: 'live-acy.' I'm more interested i...
JOHN GLENN The loss of wealth is loss of dirt, as sages in all times assert; The happy man's without a shir...
JOHN HEYWOOD Those who agree with us may not be right, but we admire their astuteness.
JOHN HEYWOOD Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
JOHN HEYWOOD When all candles be out, all cats be grey.
JOHN HEYWOOD Written by a sponge dipped in warm milk and sprinkled with sugar.
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JOHN CIARDI What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks ...
JOHN CIARDI Every game ever invented by mankind, is a way of making things hard for the fun of it!
JOHN CIARDI A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in the students.
JOHN CIARDI Poetry lies its way to the truth.
JOHN CIARDI Intelligence recognizes what has happened. Genius recognizes what will happen.
JOHN CIARDI Nothing goes further toward a man's liberation than the act of surviving his need for character.
JOHN CIARDI The day will happen whether or not you get up.
JOHN CIARDI You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
JOHN CIARDI Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they hav...
JOHN CIARDI The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.
JOHN CIARDI With any of the movies I've had a chance to do, or any of the TV shows I've had a chance to ...
JOHN CENA The deep joy we take in the company of people with whom we have just recently fallen in love is undi...
JOHN CHEEVER Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.
JOHN WEBSTER Old friends are best.
JOHN SELDEN They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.
JOHN MAYER Rome was not built in one day.
JOHN HEYWOOD You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
JOHN ENGLER I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the ...
JOHN MCGAHERN The last thing on my mind was to be an actor, but I had a crush on a cute girl in the drama departme...
JOHN RATZENBERGER He who laughs most, learns best.
JOHN CLEESE Some people feel fulfillment from a bitter end - it gives them some sort of sense of reality. But, w...
JOHN BOYEGA I've never eaten just a few bites of things I liked in my life.
JOHN MADDEN The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.
JOHN WOODEN A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment.
JOHN WOODEN Just try to be the best you can be; never cease trying to be the best you can be. That's in your...
JOHN WOODEN If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
JOHN WOODEN Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
JOHN WOODEN Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
JOHN LOCKE It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all...
JOHN LOCKE It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the tr...
JOHN LOCKE The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.
JOHN LOCKE It doesn't matter how long my hair is or what colour my skin is or whether I'm a woman or a ...
JOHN LENNON I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people cal...
JOHN LENNON I believe time wounds all heels.
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JOHN LENNON When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have...
JOHN LENNON If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, th...
JOHN LENNON I'm not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I've always...
JOHN LENNON You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!
JOHN LENNON Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
JOHN LENNON All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptat...
JOHN LOCKE In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community...
JOHN THORN I'm really passionate about pantomime because it is often the first introduction for a child to ...
JOHN BARROWMAN You have to keep persevering. An actor goes to a lot of auditions and doesn't get the part.
JOHN MCENROE Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depress...
JOHN MELLENCAMP A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.
JOHN LUBBOCK So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
JOHN LYDON There's rock n' roll in hip-hop, there's rock n' roll in pop music, there's rock...
JOHN VARVATOS Get off your horse and drink your milk.
JOHN WAYNE The ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world are the ones who do.
JOHN MCAFEE I can never consent to being dictated to.
JOHN TYLER There, I guess King George will be able to read that without his spectacles!
JOHN HANCOCK When you have a regime that would be happier in the afterlife than in this life, this is not a regim...
JOHN BOLTON Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd...
JOHN BOLTON You don't need to spend tens of millions of dollars on political consultants to tell you what yo...
JOHN BOLTON Diplomacy is not an end in itself if it does not advance U.S. interests.
JOHN BOLTON Just as the Security Council was largely irrelevant to the great struggle of the last half of the tw...
JOHN BOLTON I'm a conservative Republican. I have been since I was 15 years old and participated in the '...
JOHN BOLTON People say you favor assassination, what do you think war is? Except that it's assassination on ...
JOHN BOLTON There's no religious test under the constitution. That's what it says. Period.
JOHN BOLTON North Korea is going to get away with keeping its nuclear weapons.
JOHN BOLTON I think that, especially among conservatives, there's a clear understanding that there are three...
JOHN BOLTON A lot of people have said to me, 'That's a great idea, running for president. You'll get...
JOHN BOLTON The U.N. is one of many competitors in a marketplace of global problem solving.
JOHN BOLTON I don't do carrots.
JOHN BOLTON My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that sma...
JOHN BOLTON Politicians, like generals, have a tendency to fight the last war.
JOHN BOLTON Reform is not a one-night stand.
JOHN BOLTON I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because t...
JOHN BOLTON There is no such thing as the United Nations.
JOHN BOLTON Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States...
JOHN BOLTON There is no patriotic obligation to help advance the career of a politician who is otherwise pursuin...
JOHN BOLTON We estimate that once Iraq acquires fissile material - whether from a foreign source or by securing ...
JOHN BOLTON There's no such thing as the United Nations. If the U.N. secretary building in New York lost 10 ...
JOHN BOLTON In the United States, there is a broadly shared view that the U.N. is one of many potential instrume...
JOHN BOLTON It's not natural disasters that are to blame for the deprivation of the North Korean people, but...
JOHN BOLTON Negotiation is not a policy. It's a technique. It's something you use when it's to your ...
JOHN BOLTON I haven't given up on the possibility that sweet reason will prevail.
JOHN BOLTON Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
JOHN ACTON My best tennis at my peak was when I played a lot of matches.
JOHN MCENROE Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the pre...
JOHN RUSKIN There is no priority higher than the prevention of terrorism.
JOHN ASHCROFT If my leg falls off, I'll get a prosthetic. There'd be no deep sadness about. I'd just g...
JOHN LYDON It's a challenge to grow professionally and move up the corporate ladder when you're not rec...
JOHN RAMPTON Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you reall...
JOHN WOODEN I do not support raising the minimum wage, and the reason is as follows. When the minimum wage is ra...
JOHN SUNUNU Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.
JOHN LENNON We are like chameleons, we take our hue and the color of our moral character, from those who are aro...
JOHN LOCKE Love is the flower you've got to let grow.
JOHN LENNON Do what you need to do and enjoy life as it happens.
JOHN SCALZI Any tool can be used for good or bad. It's really the ethics of the artist using it.
JOHN KNOLL I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and ...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE In this age of communications that span both distance and time, the only tool we have that approxima...
JOHN MCAFEE My own personal popularity can have no influence over me when the dictates of my best judgment and t...
JOHN TYLER Be true to yourself. Make each day a masterpiece. Help others. Drink deeply from good books. Make fr...
JOHN WOODEN Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.
JOHN BURDETT I don't tolerate liars. When somebody lies to me, that's really, like, just unbearable.
JOHN LYDON You can't let praise or criticism get to you. It's a weakness to get caught up in either one...
JOHN WOODEN I believe that voting is the first act of building a community as well as building a country.
JOHN ENSIGN The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in...
JOHN GRIERSON We direct the destinies of a mighty continent. Our resources are unlimited: our means unbounded. If ...
JOHN TYLER Colors answer feeling in man; shapes answer thought; and motion answers will.
JOHN STERLING I sang 'All Of Me' at the wedding. I sang 'Stay With You' from my first album. And t...
JOHN LEGEND When I was in primary school, I was given a five-line script in 'Anansi the Spider Man,' and...
JOHN BOYEGA In computer animation, every detail has to be thought out, designed, modeled, shaded, placed and lit...
JOHN LASSETER A successful entrepreneur can't be afraid of failures or setbacks. An initial setback can be a g...
JOHN ROOS For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me be...
JOHN FRUSCIANTE Love is my religion - I could die for it.
JOHN KEATS Integrity of life is fame's best friend, which nobly, beyond death, shall crown in the end.
JOHN WEBSTER Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.
JOHN LUBBOCK A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, ...
JOHN BERGER Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.
JOHN MILTON