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Each new book is a tremendous challenge. -- Peter Straub
When a new book is published, read an old one. -- Samuel Rogers
I'm writing a new book right now that is like an erotica manifesto. -- Susie Bright
I like it when someone gives me a new book of poetry by a poet I haven't read. -- Nell Freudenberger
Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index. -- Julie Burchill
A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt. -- Ray Bradbury
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The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during the Enlightenment and during the framing of the American Constitution. -- Steven Pinker
One of the main arguments that I make in my new book, 'The Great Degeneration,' is that the rule of law in the U.S. is becoming the rule of lawyers. -- Niall Ferguson
The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1. -- Harlan Coben
It helps when 1 can send the children off to their fathers so I can support my new book with a national publicity tour. I started writing the book when my daughter was 5. It took me almost four years. -- Meg Tilly
The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it's just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress. -- Terry Pratchett
If I had a personal wish for the new ideas in this new book it would be that every parent, every counselor, every teacher, every professor, every sports coach that deals with young people would understand the three circle concept. -- James Collins
Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space. -- John McGahern
It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come against the Lord Jesus Christ. And in this new book, we show Christ coming to settle that big issue. -- Tim LaHaye
I don't for one second think about the possibility of censorship when I am writing a new book. I know I am a person who cares about kids and who cares about truth and I am guided by my own instincts, and trust them. -- Lois Lowry
With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. -- Ibrahim Babangida
The dead cannot speak. But hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry, published in a new book by Bouthaina Shaaban, who spent ten years as Hafez's interpreter and is still an adviser to his son Bashar. -- Robert Fisk
As I detail in my new book: 'Hard Measures, How Aggressive CIA Actions After 9/11 Saved American Lives,' there are many myths surrounding the detention of a relatively small number of top terrorists at CIA-run 'black sites' from 2002 until they were sent to Guantanamo Bay in 2006. -- Jose A. Rodriguez, Jr.
I don't claim to be knowledgeable about theology. Most of my knowledge comes out of my experience and the lessons in the Bible. Every Sunday I'm home I teach 45 minutes and we boiled them down to one page for the new book, 'Through the Year with Jimmy Carter.' -- Jimmy Carter
The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee Swagger novel,' and it takes Bob to Japan in search of the sword his father recovered on Iwo that has gone missing under extremely violent circumstances. -- Stephen Hunter
My biggest aspiration is to inspire people to do good. I believe that our wish for a harmonious world begins and ends with doing good. To inspire and empower people to focus on goodness, I wrote a new book called 'Activate Your Goodness: Transforming the World through Doing Good.' -- Shari Arison
You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book! -- Nancy Werlin
I have written a new book called 'The Golden Motorcycle Gang.' The premise of the book is taken from actual events in my life. My life has been dedicated to inspiring and motivating others to live their highest vision of their ideal life and offering transformational trainings that help people succeed in all aspects of their lives. -- Jack Canfield
Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them and they all have the exact same words inside, but I'll think that one is meant to go home with me. I'll never pick the first thing off the shelf, I'll always go one behind. -- Jennifer Carpenter
Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language. -- Maya Angelou
Rereading, we find a new book. -- Mason Cooley
The Web is the new book though, innit? -- Karl Pilkington
Wear the old coat and buy the new book. -- Austin Phelps
Choosing a new book was like looking for treasure. -- Kit Pearson
We travel to new places, with every book, we read. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book. -- C. S. Lewis
When a new book appears one should read an old one. -- Winston Churchill
There is something incomparably thrilling in first opening a brand new book. -- Evelyn Waugh
I like the early comic book characters more than the new ones. -- Nicolas Winding Refn
A successful book cannot afford to be more than ten percent new. -- Marshall McLuhan
A new book is like a friend that I have yet to meet -- Abraham Lincoln
As a former ballerina, I can't put down Maggie Shipstead's new book, Astonish Me. -- Caitlin Moran
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book. -- Poppy Z. Brite
[A]n important new book. . . . Professor Akerlof and Rachel Kranton have invented Identity Economics. -- Daniel Finkelstein
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Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Practically everybody in New York has half a mind to write a book, and does. -- Groucho Marx
To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum? -- Catullus
The book exists for us, perchance, which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. -- Henry David Thoreau
Discovering the 'impossible' ending to a new book makes me sick with joy and relief. -- Chuck Palahniuk
It's extraordinary how many people read a book that's new and weird and befriend it. -- Junot Diaz
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Every time I write a new book, I want to push myself to try something different. -- Lauren Myracle
A book on the new physics, if not purely descriptive of experimental work, must essentially be mathematical. -- Paul Dirac
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic. -- Benjamin Disraeli
I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha! -- Brian Jacques
Hold a book in your hand and you're a pilgrim at the gates of a new city. -- Anne Michaels
You can find my book at your favorite bookstore, and if it isn't there, find a new favorite. -- Joan Rivers
In any case, A New Kind of Science is a wonderful book, and I'm still absorbing its teachings. -- Rudy Rucker
How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book. -- Henry David Thoreau
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. -- Jackie French
Thank you Bjork Peterson for a wonderful review of my new book "Why We Love Serial Killers" @readingghost -- Scott A. Bonn
A fascinating book and a great pleasure to read: Betool Khedairi is a talented new voice in fiction. -- Alaa Al Aswany
I'm a third done into a new book but sorry - I have a superstition about talking about it! -- Joanna Trollope
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world. -- Charles Dickens
In the whole of the New Testament there is not one joke, that fact alone would invalidate any book. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter! -- LaToya Jackson
The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable. -- Barbara Marx Hubbard
I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me. -- Judy Blume
We all have a book in us. The first step is recognising this. Writing it is a whole new journey. -- Kathryn Joyce
To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament. -- John Locke
I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures. -- Tom Peters
For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. -- Ernest Hemingway
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My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. -- Carrie Coon
I bought a new book, '100 new ways to make love'. I ended up in traction - it was a misprint. -- Rodney Dangerfield
Evan Handler's new book is simply wonderful. He pulls you inside his life, and you come out his very close friend. -- Neil Simon
Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can. -- Sue Grafton
I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon. -- Ace Frehley
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some television instead. -- Stephen Chbosky
Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project. -- David McCullough
A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous. -- Emile M. Cioran
Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live. -- Steven Levitt
There was a different ending to New Moon originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bellas head. -- Stephenie Meyer
There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's head. -- Stephenie Meyer
Christian, n.: one who believes that the New Testament is a divinely inspired book admirably suited to the spiritual needs of his neighbor. -- Ambrose Bierce
As to writing another book on geometry [to replace Euclid] the middle ages would have as soon thought of composing another New Testament. -- Augustus De Morgan
A book, I was taught long ago in English class, is a living and breathing document that grows richer with each new reading. -- Malcolm Gladwell
So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? -- Matthew Perry
So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion. -- Stephen Hawking
New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already. -- Mort Sahl
The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York Harbor. -- Edward St Aubyn
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature. -- P. G. Wodehouse
My laptop broke and because of the storm I could not get a new one. And so I've been promoting my book via iPhone. -- Jami Attenberg
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the tablets of stone. -- Kevin Barry
Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited. It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post. -- Rush Limbaugh
Peter Schweizer's book, Clinton Cash, is not discredited. It has been quoted on the front page of the New York Times and the Washington Post. -- Rush Limbaugh
I've been bragging for over 25 years that my first New York Times bestseller was a book I copied from the U.S. Government Printing Office! -- Matthew Lesko
The new year stands before us, like a chapter in a book, waiting to be written. We can help write that story by setting goals. -- Melody Beattie
It is the holiness of our Lord's heart that fills the New Testament full and makes it the unparalleled and unapproachable Book that it is. -- Alexander Whyte
I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new. -- Robert W. Service
A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents. -- Arthur Schopenhauer
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life. -- Christopher Morley
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between. -- C. S. Lewis
Travelling is a great time to catch up on my reading. It's hard falling asleep in new places, but a good book always makes it easier. -- Amanda Hocking
While I'm working on a book, I rarely read anything more than The New York Times. Which may have the long-term effect of flattening my style. -- Norman Mailer
I didn't read this book--I inhaled it. This a terrific new take on a great old rock n roll story, a clash of the musical titans. -- William McKeen
Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple as opening a book. -- K. Lamb
After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year. -- Robert Benchley
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed. -- Calvin Trillin
My favorite book is 'To Kill A Mockingbird' by Harper Lee. It is multi-layered, and I see something new in it every time I read it. -- Kimberly Willis Holt
(I think this will be the title of my new book)I Learned Everything I Needed to Know About Narcissistic Personality Disorder on My Last Date -- Brenda Priddy
What to do Before Your Book Launch is the new invaluable tool for writers. There is so much to know and now it's all in one place. -- Julie Klam
I don't yet know what style will be required for my next novel, but my sense is that each book will involve a new relationship to language. -- Vivek Shraya
Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent. -- Dale Peck
I've got lots of favourite authors, but I would say Nicci French because I look more forward to reading her next new book than any other author. -- Sophie Hannah
I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is. -- Mario Batali
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The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing how to read the world... -- Henry Giroux
[On Lou Tellegen's Women Have Been Kind:] The book ... has all the elegance of a quirked little finger and all the glitter of a pair of new rubbers. -- Dorothy Parker
Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old. -- Buenaventura Durruti
I enjoy very much being in a foreign country, in a new country, new place. And I enjoy also beginning a new book. It's like being someone else. -- J. M. G. Le Clezio
If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. -- William Hazlitt

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