#book

I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I'm doing a record before a book of poetry,' ↗

— Jewel

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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually. ↗

— Ma Jian

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In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have been published in the west, including the latest one, Beijing Coma, about a student shot in Tiananmen Square, but so far have allowed me to return. ↗

— Ma Jian

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I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood. ↗

— Billy Joel

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Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books. ↗

— Boris Johnson

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What's funny about Jesus' Son is that I never even wrote that book, I just wrote it down. I would tell these stories and people would say, You should write these things down. ↗

— Denis Johnson

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And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. ↗

— James Weldon Johnson

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We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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Paradise Lost is a book that, once put down, is very hard to pick up again. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

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