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The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

Quote by Agatha Christie about opinion, time, contentment

This book was company for me-I wrote these things when I was in hotels, far from where I normally live. I never intended to publish it.

Quote by Catherine Deneuve about companies, things

I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head.

Quote by Princess Diana about rules, heads, heart

I'm sure there are plenty of wonderful movie scripts as scripts, and I don't see why they have to buy up all the book rights.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about commerce

What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad for his own work and that's always very flattering.

Quote by Katherine Dunn about flattering, work, contentment

I knew the term Stepford Wife, and I knew what that meant. I never read the book, and I think before I started filming I watched the movie. I thought it was very dated.

Quote by Glenn Close about wife, thinking

From start to finish, it takes between nine months and a year. I usually have to promote my current book at the same time.

Quote by Jackie Collins about end, time

I have considered rap music stars, and there is one in my new book, Lovers and Players, and there is also a hip-hop music mogul who I think you will like a lot.

Quote by Jackie Collins about music, celebrity, stars, contentment

I think I'm a born storyteller. Inspiration is all around me. I can read a newspaper article and come up with an idea for a book.

Quote by Jackie Collins about inspiration, idea

Most films are rooted in a book or a comic strip, but I don't go out there saying I want to do adaptations.

Quote by Ralph Fiennes

Well yes so far, I was recently in Germany and they had me do six book signings a day and that was too much so I had them cut it down to about three. It becomes taxing at times but its a lot of fun and you meet a lot of nice people.

Quote by Larry Hagman about day, people, contentment

A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway about punishment, man

There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Quote by Ernest Hemingway

This paper back is very interesting, but I find it will never replace a hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.

Quote by Alfred Hitchcock about humor

I did some writing and bought a book, and have been working on that as a film to act and direct in.

Quote by Dustin Hoffman about writing, film

Before I went off to North Carolina, I was reading a lot of directors' books, among them my father's autobiography. Because there's a very good chapter about the technicalities of filmmaking in that book.

Quote by Anjelica Huston about film, books, good, good luck

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

Quote by Samuel Johnson about man

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

Quote by Samuel Johnson about paradise

The Bible remained for me a book of books, still divine - but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Quote by Joseph Joubert about books, common sense, sense, man

A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul.

Quote by Franz Kafka about soul