William Faulkner Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler -
The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
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 -
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand -
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 -
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 -
Books are the heart of any home, and I spend hours going through books for design inspiration.
Nate Berkus -
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 -
I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner -
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 -
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen -
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 -
My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
Sadie Jones -
I wrote all four of my books at Starbucks.
Rainbow Rowell -
I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
Dan Brown -
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.
Salman Rushdie
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Scars are just another kind of memory.
M. L. Stedman -
With a first season, you never really know how viewers or the network are going to react to a show.
Katee Sackhoff -
We know great art by its effect on us. If we are prepared to look without preconceptions, without defenses, without haste, then art will change us.
Wendy Beckett -
Pouring out liquor is like burning books.
William Faulkner