"I will not write a lame follow-up. It could take me 20 years. But I will never turn in a book that I'm not happy with."

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Dan Brown

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Years Quotes

“Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.”
“All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.”

Source : "Sword Blades and Poppy Seeds" l. 291 (1914)
“I am more human than rational.”

Source : Karen Essex (2008). “Stealing Athena: A Novel”, p.336, Anchor
“Photography has every right and every merit to claim our attention as the art of our age.”
“[The Internet] is by far the most important innovation in the media in my lifetime. It's like having a huge encyclopedia permanently available. There's a tremendous amount of rubbish on the world wide web, but retrieval of what you want to so rapid that it doesn't really matter”
“Magnum photographers were meant to go out as a crusade ... to places like famine and war and ... I went out and went round the corner to the local supermarket because this to me is the front line.”
“There are a thousand ways to hurt someone you love that have nothing to do with physical violence.”
“I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.”

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