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1 " From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. "
― Groucho Marx
2 " No writing is wasted. Did you know that sourdough from San Francisco is leavened partly by a bacteria called lactobacillus sanfrancisensis? It is native to the soil there, and does not do well elsewhere. But any kitchen can become an ecosystem. If you bake a lot, your kitchen will become a happy home to wild yeasts, and all your bread will taste better. Even a failed loaf is not wasted. Likewise, cheese makers wash the dairy floor with whey. Tomato gardeners compost with rotten tomatoes. No writing is wasted: the words you can't put in your book can wash the floor, live in the soil, lurk around in the air. They will make the next words better. "
― Erin Bow
3 " What really annoys me are the ones who write to say, I am doing your book for my final examinations and could you please tell me what the meaning of it is. I find it just so staggering--that you're supposed to explain the meaning of your book to some total stranger! If I knew what the meanings of my books were, I wouldn't have bothered to write them. "
― Margaret Drabble
4 " Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, " Hi. Thanks for writing me! "
5 " If you make art, people will talk about it. Some of the things they say will be nice, some won’t. You’ll already have made that art, and when they’re talking about the last thing you did, you should already be making the next thing.If bad reviews (of whatever kind) upset you, just don’t read them. It’s not like you’ve signed an agreement with the person buying the book to exchange your book for their opinion.Do whatever you have to do to keep making art. I know people who love bad reviews, because it means they’ve made something happen and made people talk; I know people who have never read any of their reviews. It’s their call. You get on with making art. "
― Neil Gaiman
6 " Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and don't allow limitations implanted by society tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written. "
― , Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
7 " You are the storyteller and the editor of your book of life. So write tales of imagination, tragedy, and adventure and illustrate it with the colors of beauty. "
8 " We are all beautiful instruments of God. He created many notes in music so that we would not be stuck playing the same song. Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your journey and play on. Nobody will ever reach ultimate perfection in this lifetime, but trying to achieve it is a full-time job. Start now and don't stop. Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society, tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written. "
9 " Make your book of life a musical. Never abandon obligations, but have fun leaving behind a colorful legacy. Never allow anybody to be the composer of your own destiny. Take control of your life, and never allow limitations implanted by society tell you how your music is supposed to sound — or how your book is supposed to be written. "
10 " The impact of music is so great that you'll leave your book and start dancing. "
― Michael Bassey Johnson
11 " Every event in life — the rejections, the relationships, all the embarrassing things you do will lead you to the person you are destined to be with. You may want to change certain things about your past, but everything has been just another chapter in your book of life. If you don’t believe me, buy a book — any book — and rip out an entire chapter — any chapter — and read it. Now, get a full copy of the same book and read it again. Odds are you’ll find that chapter pieced everything together the way it was supposed to be. "
― Mike Zacchio
12 " If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its own legs and able to weather the thunder. Not a baby that still needs to be defended. "
― Martyn V. Halm
13 " You need two things to write a great book: imagination and inclination. Without one, your book will be boring; without the other, your book won't get finished at all. "
― Ellie Firestone
14 " Your career has but one goal: To ensure your book of life is more than an anthology of salary slips. "
― Gyan Nagpal , Talent Economics: The Fine Line Between Winning and Losing the Global War for Talent
15 " Sell your book like a can of beans & your readers will place the same value on it. "
― Stuart Aken
16 " An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Say you go in and discover that there are no copies of your book on the shelves. You resent all the other books - I don't care if they are Great Expectations, Life on the Mississippi and the King James Bible that are on the shelves. "
― Roy Blount Jr.
17 " All my days were written in Your book and planned before a single one of them began.Psalm 139:16 "
― S. L. Rubart
18 " By mastering character and plot, you give your book a fighting chance and withoutcharacter and plot, no book can survive. "
19 " You are the only author of your book that matters. "
― Suzette R. Hinton
20 " I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859] "
― , Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker O.M., G.C.S.I.
