"Write the book you want to read"

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Austin Kleon

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Want Quotes

“Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.”
“I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The love of truth is the stimulus to all noble conversation. This is the root of all the charities. The tree which springs from it may have a thousand branches, but they will all bear a golden and generous fruitage.”
“Luck ran out, but smart was for life.”

Source : John Connolly (2012). “The Burning Soul: A Charlie Parker Thriller”, p.170, Simon and Schuster
“I don't believe in overdoing myself.”
“What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine.”

Source : Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.184, Broadway Books
“All attempts to coerce the living will of human beings into the service of something they do not want must fail”
“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers ...”

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