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When I think about it, I'm happily bewildered that people will preorder my books They'll preorder me. What a lucky guy!

~David Mitchell

Topics: About Bewildered Books Guy Happily Lucky Me People Think Will I Think

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I love books, I love art, I'm a fanatic nature and wildlife person. People assume I'm a political animal, power hungry, wanting to run for office. And anyone who knows me knows that none of that's true.

~David Mixner

Topics: Animal Anyone Art Assume Books Fanatic Hungry Knows Love Me Nature None Office People Person Political Power Run True Wanting Who Wildlife I Love

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Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.

~David Morrell

Topics: Away Because Books Either Go Go Away Having Just Just Because Major Mean Mean People People Printed Publishing Reading Reading Books Remember Stopped Trouble

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I sold 'Time Life' books on the telephone. It's probably the only pure skill job I've ever had. When you're on and you're good, you get 'yes' after 'yes.' When you're slightly off, you get rejection after rejection. It was one of the greatest jobs I ever had. It was brutal.

~David Nevins

Topics: After Books Brutal Ever Get Good Greatest Had Job Jobs Life Off Only Pure Rejection Skill Slightly Sold Telephone Time Yes You

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For the best part of my childhood I visited the local library three or four times a week, hunching in the stacks on a foam rubber stool and devouring children's fiction, classics, salacious thrillers, horror and sci-fi, books about cinema and origami and natural history, to the point where my parents encouraged me to read a little less.

~David Nicholls

Topics: About Best Best Part Books Childhood Children Cinema Classics Encouraged Fiction Four History Horror Less Library Little Local Me Natural Natural History Parents Part Point Read Rubber Sci-Fi Stool Three Thrillers Times Visited Week Where

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Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so when it does, it feels a little... unjust.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Books Does Feels Give Happen Hard Life Little Off Something Take Unjust Well Years You Your

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Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on that line. I wanted it to be moving, but without being manipulative.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Being Between Books Cynicism Day Edge Films Knife Line Love Manipulative Most Moving One Day Romance Stay Walk Wanted Without I Love

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I know that for every reader who has lost the habit or can't find the time, there are people who've never enjoyed reading and question the value of literature, either as entertainment or education, or believe that a love of books, and of fiction in particular, is sentimental or frivolous.

~David Nicholls

Topics: Believe Books Education Either Enjoyed Entertainment Every Fiction Find Frivolous Habit Know Literature Lost Love Never Particular People Question Reader Reading Sentimental Time Value Who

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A lot of people write books not at the end of their career. Why you gotta wait until then? When you're momentum's going, that's when people really want to get to know about you.

~David Ortiz

Topics: About Books Career End Get Going Gotta Know Lot Momentum People Really Then Until Wait Want Why Write You

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The American people are screaming out saying it's unfair that the wealthiest, the largest corporations who can afford the best attorneys, the best accountants, take advantage of these special tax treatments that the lobbyists have, along with lawmakers, have cooked in the books here.

~David Plouffe

Topics: Accountants Advantage Afford Along American American People Attorneys Best Books Cooked Corporations Here Largest Lawmakers Lobbyists Out People Saying Screaming Special Take Take Advantage Tax Treatments Unfair Who

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