Abelardo Morell Quotes
At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
Abelardo Morell
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Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me another one?
Kate DiCamillo
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Pablo Neruda
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I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates, I'm thinking, 'I could be reading my book instead.'
Zosia Mamet
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I've kept a journal since I was 15. And I feel like it's been crucial to who I've become and trying to maintain stuff, a sense of who I am just for myself and not for other people.
Tavi Gevinson
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Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this way - I had the same hopes that every literary fiction writer in America has: I wanted the novel to be well-received, critically. As for sales? I didn't want it to disappoint, but I didn't expect it to be a best-seller, either.
Edan Lepucki
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
Taylor Caldwell
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I like to believe, as a writer, that anybody who isn't a reader yet has just not found the right book.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach.
Walter Jon Williams
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
Nathan Fillion
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My method is, I just sit down and write a book.
Karen Robards
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What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.
Barry Schwartz
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Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.
E. L. Doctorow
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No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed, the bathroom, our car, her bags, a little stack at the edge of each stair. And she'd use anything she could find for a bookmark. My missing sock, an apple core, her reading glasses, another book, a fork.
Kami Garcia
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You hear the word 'cancer,' it scares you. You think of death.
Joe Torre
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'Now, boy, now...' he said bewilderedly, 'what is all this talk of glory? Have you caught the sickness, too? Curse me for a blind beggar, I should have seen. This fever has cankered even your simple heart, hasn’t it, Simon? I’m sorry. It takes a strong will or practiced eye to see through the glitter to the rotten core.'
Tad Williams
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'Monkey Island 2' was a huge game for me. It kind of taught me all about comedy.
Bryan Lee O'Malley
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At times, I have been convinced that books hold all the material of life--at least all the stuff that fits between an A and a Z.
Abelardo Morell
