Rainbow Rowell Quotes
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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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I've got four roommates and they all have fur and tails.
Kate Walsh
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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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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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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
Yami Gautam
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
Rabih Alameddine
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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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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
T. E. Lawrence
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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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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Irving Stone
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I play banjo, and in Britain, it's easy to get away with playing banjo because you don't often see it on U.K. stages. In America, people know when you're a good banjo player, so I was really nervous about playing out there. But we actually went down really well.
Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
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Perhaps cliche is nothing more than the weight of the past pinning down your mind. In this sense, imaginative freedom is a way of finding the future, though it isn't so easy to do.
Damon Galgut
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I've been poor and I've been rich, and rich is better.
Bessie Smith
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell