Marina Tsvetaeva Quotes
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler
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The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good books disappear.
Patrick deWitt
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
Patrick Carman
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
Madhur Bhandarkar
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
Barbara Park
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W. H. Auden
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Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
Nate Berkus
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
Samantha Shannon
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
Talulah Riley
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May books spread the world over!
Yann Martel
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
Gary Wolf
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Travel teaches as much as books.
Youssou N'Dour
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People never cease to amaze us.
Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
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My officers and men understood wishes so well that this movement was executed under fire, the right wing keeping up fire, without giving the enemy any occasion to seize or even to suspect their advantage.
Joshua Chamberlain
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I just love kids. I always have.
Faith Prince
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Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
Philip James Bailey
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Change is hard because people wear themselves out. And that’s the second surprise about change: What looks like laziness is often exhaustion.
Chip Heath
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One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
Marina Tsvetaeva