Tawni O'Dell Quotes
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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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.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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We were hunter-gatherers of information, and we moved from that to becoming farmers and cultivators of information.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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Fixity is always momentary. But how can it always be so? If it were, it would not be momentary - or would not be fixity.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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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.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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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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May books spread the world over!
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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Theres nothing more depressing than having everything and still feeling sad. We must learn to water our spiritual garden.
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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
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If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, "The same as everywhere."
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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.
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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.