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Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Book Discovers Every Excitement First His Impossibility Intrinsic Soon Which Writer

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If you're going to publish a book, you probably are going to make a fool of yourself.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Book Fool Going Make Publish You Yourself

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It makes more sense to write one big book - a novel or nonfiction narrative - than to write many stories or essays. Into a long, ambitious project you can fit or pour all you possess and learn.

~Annie Dillard

Topics: Ambitious Big Book Essays Fit Learn Long Makes Many More Narrative Nonfiction Novel Possess Pour Project Sense Stories Than Write You

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As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.

~Annie Leibovitz

Topics: Book Get Liberating Me Older One Word Projects Really Word

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As soon as you put something to bed like the 'Women' book, you're never finished. There were portraits of people that I wanted to photograph - it's an endless subject.

~Annie Leibovitz

Topics: Bed Book Endless Finished Like Never People Photograph Portraits Put Something Soon Subject Wanted Were Women You

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The text, 'Is God a White Racist', By Rev. Dr. William Jones, is still studied by theologians and academics and taught in institutes of higher learning. The book called into question the chief construction of black liberation theology: that God is on the side of the oppressed.

~Anthea Butler

Topics: Academics Black Book Chief Construction Dr God Higher Institute Learning Liberation Oppressed Question Side Still Studied Taught Text Theologians Theology White William

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When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Am Anonymous Away Book Book Tour Chain Chili Doing Either Gap Go Help Hotel Know Right Right Away Room Secret Sometimes States Strip Tour Up Usual Victoria Victoria's Secret Wake Wake Up Where Window You I Am

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I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity, meaning I had written a really obnoxious book and nobody expected me to be anyone that I wasn't already.

~Anthony Bourdain

Topics: Anyone Been Book Cook Expected Fortunate Guess Had Hired Known Me Meaning Nobody Obnoxious Quantity Really Tour Written

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As adults, we've seen so much before that we often turn the pages of a picture book without really looking. Young children tend to look more carefully.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Adult Before Book Carefully Children Look Looking More Much Often Pages Picture Picture Book Really Seen Tend Turn Without Young Young Children

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Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.

~Anthony Browne

Topics: Always Back Best Book Books Choose Come Could Felt First First Time Force Gorilla Me Picture Time Understood

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