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If I'm on the road for Random House, I'm presenting a book with the hope people will buy it.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: Book Buy Hope House People Presenting Random Road Will

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Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library, and you find a book that you love.

~Elizabeth Berg

Topics: About Accident Best Book Find Just Library Love Reading Someone Sometimes Talks Wandering You

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You think there's a rule book, in a way, until you realize there's absolutely no rule book, and you can use a red carpet to express something about yourself. There are so many wonderful designers in the world, and they create such wonderful things. Why go with something uninteresting?

~Elizabeth Debicki

Topics: About Absolutely Book Carpet Create Designers Express Go Many Realize Red Red Carpet Rule Something Things Think Uninteresting Until Use Way Why Wonderful Wonderful Things World You Yourself

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I cannot read on a Kindle. I love the physical experience of holding a book, cracking it open, and the process of making the right half weigh less than the left half. I only read hardcover books because I like the resistance and the presence on a bookshelf.

~Elizabeth Diller

Topics: Because Book Books Cannot Cracking Experience Half Holding Kindle Left Less Like Love Making Only Open Physical Presence Process Read Resistance Right Than Weigh I Love

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The Museum of the Bible, the sprawling, 430,000-square-foot tribute to the good book, has been dogged by controversies long before opening day. It's been criticized for not including enough Jesus, for excluding various religious traditions, and for being evangelical propaganda.

~Elizabeth Flock

Topics: Been Before Being Bible Book Controversies Criticized Day Dogged Enough Evangelical Good Good Book Including Jesus Long Museum Opening Opening Day Propaganda Religious Traditions Tribute Various

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Lots of people want to have written; they don't want to write. In other words, they want to see their name on the front cover of a book and their grinning picture on the back. But this is what comes at the end of a job, not at the beginning.

~Elizabeth George

Topics: Back Beginning Book Cover End Front In Other Words Job Lots Name Other People Picture See Want Words Write Written

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I try to create a challenge for myself in each book. And sometimes, believe me, I just kick myself afterwards, and say, 'Why on earth did you ever attempt this, you idiot!' But I'm always better for the experience.

~Elizabeth George

Topics: Afterwards Always Attempt Believe Better Book Challenge Create Did Each Earth Ever Experience Idiot Just Kick Me Myself Say Sometimes Try Why You

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When I start a book, I write a minimum of five pages every day, except weekends. If I'm going on a ski trip, I take my computer with me, get up at six, do my five pages, and then go skiing.

~Elizabeth George

Topics: Book Computer Day Every Every Day Except Five Get Go Going Me Minimum Pages Six Ski Skiing Start Take Then Trip Up Weekends Write I Write

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Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions and a book that will stop time, lift me out of my quotidian existence and alter my thinking forever.

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: Alter Beverage Book Comfortable Couch Distractions Existence Forever Just Lift Me Nice Oh Out Stop Thinking Time Want Weekend Will

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Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?

~Elizabeth Gilbert

Topics: About After Another Anything Book Came Check Decades Exceedingly Forward Four Going Judged Know Last Left Like Likely Maybe Me Old Only Out Point Pretty Right Still Success Which Work World Write Years You Young I Write

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