Book Quotes
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As I get older, the book projects are - liberating is one word, but they really are me.
Annie Leibovitz
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Jesse Vincent: My dog is Web 2.0. Prove me wrong.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?Damian Conway: If you enjoyed these practices, find 245 more like this in this book.Larry: Does your dog have a long tail?
Larry Wall
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'Clueless' is an adaptation of 'Emma' by Jane Austen. It works either way: if you know the book and if you don't.
Jason Moore
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I write about five thousand words a day, when working on a book, about three thousand a day if I'm writing a short story. I take long periods off between projects, when I read a lot, garden, and think about the next book or stories.
Eric Brown
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I've met men who've stood in long lines on my book tours, and they've said things like, 'I've read your books and they've changed the direction in my life, and I want to thank you.' I think they're standing in line for their wife or their mother or their sweetheart or somebody, but no.
Beverly Lewis
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As an audience member, I live vicariously through the characters I watch or read about. There's something very relatable about comic-book characters. They're never perfect. They're flawed people put in extraordinary circumstances.
James Badge Dale
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And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even dared to dream that someday, somehow, I might surround myself with books from many times and many tongues.
T.A. Barron
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I did know that the book would end with a mind-boggling trial, but I didn't know exactly how it would turn out. I like a little suspense when I am writing, too.
James Patterson
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Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.
Kelly Wearstler
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I feel happy and secure when I'm on my bed with a good book... I forget everything which is terrible in our world.
Francoise Hardy
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It always seemed to me that the herbaceous peony is the very epitome of June. Larger than any rose,
it has something of the cabbage rose's voluminous quality; and when it finally drops from the vase, it
sheds its petticoats with a bump on the table, all in an intact heap, much as a rose will suddenly fall,
making us look up from our book or conversation, to notice for one moment the death of what had
still appeared to be a living beauty.
Vita Sackville-West
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The hero of the book does long to experience God. But his conception of God is very western.
Orhan Pamuk
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If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.
E. L. James
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The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.
Jan Karon
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When I settled to writing seriously, which would be in my 30s, I did expect to be published eventually, but my aspirations weren't very high. A published book and a few appreciative readers was my idea of heaven.
Jo Beverley
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Just think about it: in every shop in the reading world since 1956, there has been two feet of book-space devoted to Tolkien.
John Rhys-Davies
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I don't like the idea of a book being a test or being used for a test. The way - in my opinion - to make good readers is to let kids choose their own books and not test them.
Avi
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For the moment, whenever I read, it is normally scripts. You start a book and then you think, 'I should be reading these five scripts.'
Douglas Booth
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Every book is an image of solitude. It is a tangible object that one can pick up, put down, open, and close, and its words represent many months if not many years, of one man’s solitude, so that with each word one reads in a book one might say to himself that he is confronting a particle of that solitude
Paul Auster
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Perhaps it is the positive knowledge that humans now possess the means to destroy their whole planet, the fear that they have in this way themselves become the gods, dreadfully charged with their own continued existence, that has made comic-book and movie myth escapist.
Nadine Gordimer
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The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a poem written for a tomb, and appears in a book, we are aware that we are not reading it in its proper form: we are reading a reproduction. The original of the epitaph is the tomb itself, with its words cut into the stone.
James Fenton
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I think if a book has the power to move a reader, it also has the power to offend a reader. And you want your books to have power, so you just have to take what comes with that.
Katherine Paterson
