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The Narrow Road to the Deep North' is one of the most famous books of all Japanese literature, written by the great poet Basho in 1689. -- Richard Flanagan
Wagner's philosophy had absolutely nothing to do with Bruckner. Bruckner hadn't written a single word against Jews. Wagner's book on the Jews was one of the most infamous books of the 19th century. -- Zubin Mehta
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired. -- Moliere
Stephen King consummately honors several traditions with his rare paperback original, 'Joyland.' He addresses the novel of carny life and sideshows, where the midway serves as microcosm, such as in those famous books by Ray Bradbury, Charles Finney and William Lindsay Gresham. -- Paul Di Filippo
By virtue of some of the ways the game is played, in terms of message discipline, in terms of access for reporters, and especially in the way that sources and subjects, especially famous subjects, treat the media, almost by default there's more news that's falling into books. -- Ron Suskind
I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot. -- Amanda Hocking
Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics. -- Mickey Spillane
There's a famous tension between Green Lantern and Green Arrow in the comic books. Those guys have always been friends. They started off as not on the same page, and then they quickly became best friends. -- Geoff Johns
I've gotten books published. I've met famous people that are very nice. I look back and I say, 'Wow. Thank you, God, for giving me this gift. And thank you for helping me to keep going.' -- Mattie Stepanek
I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous authors are a lot more meaningful to you than TV and movie stars. -- Claire Scovell LaZebnik
At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men. -- Ernest Thompson Seton
Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books. -- John Edgar Wideman
I get so annoyed by famous people who have not actually written the books they slap their names on. -- Anderson Cooper
I really couldn't say how famous I really am, that's for the history books to decide. But I'll probably be pretty up there. -- Zach Braff
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an end, which are written with style. -- David Gelernter
I never wanted to be famous and the only part I like is that it means people are reading my books and listening to me on TV and radio. -- Ann Coulter
Even those who argue against fame still want the books they write against it to bear their name in the title and hope to become famous for despising it -- Michel de Montaigne
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to me, by famous old books on philosophy or theology that I want to see with my own eyes, by essays on contemporary science, by the literatures of antiquity. -- Marilynne Robinson
Through the eight books in 'The Treasure Chest' series, readers will meet twins Maisie and Felix and learn the secrets and rules of time travel, where they will encounter some of these famous and forgotten people. In Book 1, Clara Barton, then Alexander Hamilton, Pearl Buck, Harry Houdini, and on and on. -- Ann Hood

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