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Prose is like this big block - you write big paragraphs. I feel that when I'm reading and writing, that a prose book is kind of monolithic. But a song is more like a feather or something.

~Bill Callahan

Topics: Big Block Book Feather Feel Kind Like More Paragraphs Prose Reading Something Song Write Writing You I Feel

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I really appreciate what it takes to create a book. I understand the loneliness that it involves and the excitement and the vulnerability: I especially identify with that.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Appreciate Book Create Excitement Identify Involves Loneliness Really Takes Understand Vulnerability

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If a writer I represent gets a bad or unfair review, I suffer. I'm upset and outraged and do everything I can to try and change that. But I would never do that on behalf of my own book because I wouldn't expect my writers to do that.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: Bad Because Behalf Book Change Everything Expect Gets My Own Never Outraged Own Represent Review Suffer Try Unfair Upset Would Writer Writers I Can

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I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, because a book will be on bookshelves and in libraries long after we're gone, and, in some ways, whatever happens is none of our business.

~Bill Clegg

Topics: After Because Book Business Day Every Every Day Expectations Go Gone Happens Hard Just Let Go Libraries Long Lot None Our Results Some Very Ways Whatever Will Work You

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You can't be a change-maker by reading a book.

~Bill Drayton

Topics: Book Reading You

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Our family is fortunate to have a well-documented history in a book titled 'The Flores Family - 1725 to 1963' by James F. Padgett.

~Bill Flores

Topics: Book Family Fortunate History James Our

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In ninth grade, I came up with a new form of rebellion. I hadn't been getting good grades, but I decided to get all A's without taking a book home. I didn't go to math class, because I knew enough and had read ahead, and I placed within the top 10 people in the nation on an aptitude exam.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Aptitude Because Been Book Came Class Decided Enough Exam Form Get Getting Go Good Good Grades Grade Grades Had Home Knew Math Nation New Ninth People Placed Read Rebellion Taking Top Up Within Without I Came Ahead

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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

~Bill Gates

Topics: Book Books Lot Nice Obscure Open Read

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Harnessing steam power required many innovations, as William Rosen chronicles in the book 'The Most Powerful Idea in the World.'

~Bill Gates

Topics: Book Idea Innovations Many Most Most Powerful Power Powerful Required Steam William World

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If I get a chance to write a comic book or do a voice in an Adult Swim show, I do it. It's much more fulfilling to me and I get to work with people who I'm a fan of.

~Bill Hader

Topics: Adult Book Chance Comic Comic Book Fan Fulfilling Get Me More Much People Show Swim Voice Who Work Write

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