Heather Brooke Quotes
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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My iron game. I get into trouble a lot with my driver, so I tend to hit 3-wood off the tee.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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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.
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The trouble with children is that they're not returnable.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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I have already seen death, and I know that death is supporting me in my cause of education. Death does not want to kill me.
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I have even taught classes on writing about sex, and I've looked closely at different writers' sex scenes. On the level of craft I've given it a lot of thought. The pitfalls are simple: It can sound clinical or medical, which isn't right, or pornographic, because the characters disappear.
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All I can say is that my ambition far exceeded my talent.
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The ocean was waiting with grand and bitter provocations, as if it invited you to think how deep it was, how much colder than your blood or saltier, or to outguess it, to tell which were its feints or passes and which its real intentions, meaning business.
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I like to write books and cause trouble.
