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I never read one book at a time.
Beware of the person of one book.
I've never read one book about my father.
I can't take just one book with me anywhere.
A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
I manage to read about one book a month, all fantasy these days.
I have a bad habit of reading more than one book simultaneously!
I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.
I don't go anywhere without my iPod, laptop and at least one book.
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
Everyone thinks they're going to write one book of poems or one novel.
I always have at least one book with me. I try and read a book a month.
Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.
I am a big believer in the fact that all authors really write only one book.
I hate the idea of sequels. I think you should be able to do it in one book.
Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one.
All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.
I have a short attention span, so when one book isn't working out, I just work on another.
I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book.
I didn't say I have to be a writer, but I did say that I needed to publish at least one book.
When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
Even before he had one book published, Jack was one of those people you could feel was very special.
I always travel with one book. I'll read it and then leave it for someone else, and take another book.
A recommendation to scholars: Write only one book about Lincoln; give it your best shot, and then move on.
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.
One book that I just think is absolutely beautiful is 'The Kite Runner.' I'd recommend that one to any and everyone.
I think you can't repeat beats. If you're doing something in one book, you can't do the exact same thing in another book.
Fundamentalism - of any variety - is a form of illiteracy, in that it asserts that it is necessary to read only one book.
Anyone can write one book: even politicians do it. Starting a second book reveals an intention to be a professional writer.
If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big Sea' by Langston Hughes.
I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
You're always told by your publisher that you must only write one book a year and some years you should perhaps write none at all.
I am undependable. You might get gritty contemporary with one book, science fiction, magical realism, or high fantasy with another.
The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that.
I never thought I'd write one book, let alone three. I'm absolutely delighted and every night, thank the good lord for spell check.
'The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
And then I wrote my first autobiography when I - well, it was 23 years ago. And since then I've written about one book every two years.
For something that's supposed to be secret, there is a lot of intelligence history. Every time I read one book, two more are published.
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only going to get to 3,640 books.
I'm not going to make judgments about what people are reading. I just want them to be reading. And I think reading one book leads to another book.
I was lucky: I feel like I've written four books that mean something to me, and one book that means everything to me, and that's 'The Book Thief.'
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books.
I'm remembering one book that I wrote, 'Fourth Grade Rats,' that took a month to write, but most of them, full-length novels, I would say about a year.
Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history.
My goal is to write one book of fiction, and that's all I want to do. It takes so much time, and I don't really have enough time. But I admire writers so much.
I just noticed recently that in one book after another I seem to find an excuse to find some character who, to put it idiotically simply, is allowed to talk crazy.
I've been able to write at least one book a year for 20 years, and I don't think I would've had that kind of drive if I hadn't come out of the journalism business.