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• I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you spend all your time checking your cellphone messages, or updating your Facebook (of course I don't have a Facebook page) then you don't have any time for reading.

  Vaclav Smil

  Libro, Lectura, Pasado

  "Meet Vaclav Smil, the Canadian polymath whose books Bill Gates is racing to read". Interview with Ritchie King, qz.com. August 08, 2013.

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• Every page was once a blank page, just as every word that appears on it now was not always there, but instead reflects the final result of countless large and small deliberations. All the elements of good writing depend on the writer's skill in choosing one word instead of another. And what grabs and keeps our interest has everything to do with those choices.

  Francine Prose

  Writing, Skills, Choices

  Francine Prose (2009). “Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• The writer has the advantage of a medium that can be contemplated many times over on the pages of a book or a magazine. The words lie on the page and the writer has an extended opportunity to imprint on his reader every meaning and nuance distilled from experience.

  Bienvenido Lumbera

  Lying, Book, Opportunity

  Bienvenido Lumbera (1984). “Revaluation: essays on Philippine literature, cinema, and popular culture”

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• I absolutely fell in love with David Cristofanos writing. THE GIRL SHE USED TO BE is that rare novel--its the one youve been looking for when you wander the bookstore aisles, hoping to find something that will grab hold of you and not let go. Eloquent, haunting, and totally enthralling, I was swept in from page one.

  Johanna Edwards

  Girl, Letting Go, Writing

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• Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.

  Cathy Marie Buchanan

  Book, World, Clubs

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• If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat...you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It's just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It's just to destroy life.

  Diane Frolov

  Art, Cat, House

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• With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly turning pages to find out what happened in the past and what will happen next. At once heartbreaking and hopeful, it is a powerful new work of fiction by an internationally acclaimed writer at the height of his powers.

  Will Schwalbe

  Powerful, Regret, Past

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• Mágica, sí, pero EL NIÑO DE LAS NIEVES es también satisfactoriamente realista en su descripción de la Alaska de los años veinte y de la gente que se estableció allí, incluida una pareja de ancianos unidos por un amor resistente. La conmovedora novela de debut de Eowyn Ivey me atrapó desde las primeras páginas y me hizo desear que hubiera más novelas de Alaska que desafiaran los géneros como ésta. Inspirada en un cuento de hadas, contiene sin embargo más profundidad y verdad que tantos libros ambientados en esta tierra de extremos.

  Andrómeda Romano-Laxo

  Niños, Pareja, Libro

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• The world doesn’t fully make sense until the writer has secured his version of it on the page. And the act of writing is strangely more lifelike than life….every person who does serious time with a keyboard is attempting to translate his version of the world into words so that he might be understood…. Your job is to marshal the talent you do have and find people who believe in your work. What’s important, finally, is that you create, and that those creations define for you what matters most, that which cannot be extinguished even in the face of silence, solitude, and rejection.

  Betsy Lerner

  Trabajo, Creer, Escribir

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• My life feels like a book left out on the porch, and the wind blows the pages faster and faster, turning always toward a new chapter faster than I can stop to read it.

  Nancy E. Turner

  Book, Blow, Wind

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• I just feel I'm on a different page from the reviewers, so I've learned not to care about them too much.

  Bobby Farrelly

  Different, Care, Too Much

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• The impulse to tell the truth was not as great as the fear of being left off the page.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Fear, Telling The Truth, Impulse

  Jonathan Messinger (2007). “Hiding Out”, p.179, featherproof books

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• Just remember, you must know everything well before you can know what to discard. You must cover pages with material you will not finally put into the book. That doesn't mean you don't use it. It is still there, must be there, an invisible foundation which gives authority to the story. The planning done on setting is never wasted.

  Dorothy Bryant

  Book, Mean, Giving

  "Writing a Novel: Some Hints for Beginners".

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• The true felicity of a lover of books is the luxurious turning of page by page, the surrender, not meanly abject, but deliberate and cautious, with your wits about you, as you deliver yourself into the keeping of the book. This I call reading.

  Edith Wharton

  Reading, Book, Lovers

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• At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.

  Michael Bergdahl

  Simple, Ideas, Paper

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• El público ha hablado. Quieren historias. Se mueren por ellas. Están deseando que hagamos lo correcto. Y hablarán de ello, se darán un atracón, lo llevarán consigo en el autobús y a la peluquería, se lo impondrán a sus amigos, lo tuitearán, lo publicarán en blogs, en Facebook, crearán páginas de fans, GIF tontos y Dios sabe qué más...

  Kevin Spacey

  Silly, Giving, Dying

  "Kevin Spacey Speech Urges Broadcast Networks To Adopt Netflix Model At The Edinburgh Television Festival" by Alex Moaba, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2013.

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• Un esquema es crucial. Ahorra mucho tiempo. Cuando escribes suspense, tienes que saber adónde vas porque tienes que ir dejando pequeñas pistas por el camino. Con el esquema, siempre sé adónde va la historia. Así que antes de escribir, preparo un esquema de 40 o 50 páginas.

  John Grisham

  Escritura, Littles, Way

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• The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

  Nora Roberts

  Writing, Important, Blank

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• El proceso de escritura no consiste simplemente en escribir una página tras otra, sino en escribir y reescribir, reestructurar la historia, cambiar la forma en que las cosas encajan.

  Rebecca Stead

  Escribir, Juntos, Historias

  Entrevista BookUpNYC de la Fundación Nacional del Libro, www.nationalbook.org.

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• Mirando la página en blanco ante ti, Abre la ventana sucia, Deja que el sol ilumine las palabras que no pudiste encontrar.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Dirty, Sun, Window

  Canción: Unwritten, Álbum: Unwritten, 2004

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• Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Loyalty, Logic, Feels

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• Enviar una carta manuscrita se está convirtiendo en una anomalía. Está desapareciendo. Mi madre es la única que sigue escribiéndome cartas. Y abrir una carta tiene algo de visceral: la veo en la página. La veo en su letra.

  Steve Carell

  Mamá, Escritura, Anomalías

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• Los amigos me escriben cartas. Se quedan sin espacio en el anverso de la carta. Escriben "cambio" en la parte inferior de la carta. Como si yo fuera tan idiota. Como si necesitara eso ahí. Porque si no estuviera ahí, llegaría al final de la página: "Kathy y yo fuimos de compras y..." ¡Es lo más loco! No sé por qué lo terminaría así.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Correr, escribir, ir de compras

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• Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.

  Sara Sheridan

  Book, Mind, Entity

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• It is one of the benchmarks of a culture I always think – the page at which it operates. A good way to measure it is to order a taxi and see how irate local people get if it is late.

  Sara Sheridan

  Pensamiento, Orden, Gente

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