Steve Fossett (James Stephen "Steve" Fossett) Quotes
I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings.
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One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.
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I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
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A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.
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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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The wise are above books.
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The poet's other readers are the ancient poets, who look upon the freshly written pages from an incorruptible distance. Their poetic forms are permanent, and it is difficult to create new forms which can approach them.
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
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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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Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
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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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In one of my earlier books, Misquoting Jesus, I discuss the fact that we do not have the original copy of Luke, or Mark, or Paul’s writings, or any of the early Christian texts that make up the New Testament.
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In the finest critics one hears the full cry of the human. They tell one why it matters to read.
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It is enough that things exist for God to be unavoidable. Let us but grant to a bit of moss or the smallest ant its due nature as an ontological reality, and we can no longer escape the terrifying hand that made us.
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We don't want to act like adults. Anybody who can stay in a state of adolescence will be much better off later on. Look at people who are working nine-to-five jobs out of college, and look at professional skateboarders or guys in punk bands. See who's having more fun.
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I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
