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Matthew West Singer-Songwriter
Book

"When I saw how much the message of the song resonated with people I began to realize we're all on the same journey of discovering who we are. Why else would the bookstores be filled with self-help books? That's why I wanted to write Hello My Name Is; as a powerful reminder that when it comes to getting to the core of who we are, we simply can't help ourselves. Left to our own devices, we'll wander down a wide road filled with people slapping false identities on us at every turn. I've walked that road, and I don't want to anymore."

Book Song Powerful
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Matthew West Singer-Songwriter
Book

"I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores are lined with shelves filled with self-help books. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and every other social media outlets turn our focus inwards, allowing us to fall more and more in love with ourselves, our thoughts, our opinions, our voices."

Book Fall Focus
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Book

"She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat."

Book White Shining
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Book

"It's so tedious writing cookbooks or writing the recipes because I've never been much of a measurer. But to write a book, you have to measure everything."

Writing Book Recipes
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Book

"I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book."

Book Next Tables
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Book

"Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language."

Book New York Forever
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Maya Angelou Poet, Memoirist
Book

"I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity."

Book Friday Monday
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Meister Eckhart Theologian, Philosopher
Book

"One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God."

Book Life Is Thousand
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Michael Buckley Author, Educator
Book

"You ignorant little rodent! This isn't just an old book. This is the book of Everafter." "Sorry, I haven't read it. I'm waiting for the movie," Puck said."

Book Waiting Sorry
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Book

"I spent a lot of time developing in books why worshipping separately actually impacts inequality, economic, social, on and on. So I really do believe there are huge advantages to being together even though it's difficult, even though we have a lot to learn."

Believe Book Impact
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Michael Jordan Professional Basketball Player
Book

"I went to a bookstore to try to find a book. The bottom line is, it all comes by trial and error. It was scary and exciting at first you don't know what to expect. But once you look into your child's eyes, you forget about that."

Children Book Eye
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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Book

"It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject."

Writing Book Pain
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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Book

"Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it."

Want Book Hollywood
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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Book

"My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens is I will go back home. I have a 4-year-old and a 1-year-old and a wife who is now taking care of them who is wondering where her husband is."

Book Home Husband
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Michael Lewis Author, Journalist
Book

"You want the book to be special, and they are not always going to be special, but at least you want that to be the ambition. So the only way that happens is if you are not pressing to write a book."

Writing Book Ambition
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Michael Scott Business Executive
Book

"There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and, of course, I would never put sex and extreme violence in a YA book. But writing for adults and children requires the same care and attention."

Children Book Sex
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Michael Scott Business Executive
Book

"I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still in print today. My first young adult book was published a couple of years later, and I've been writing in both genres ever since."

Writing Book Couple
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