Book Quotes
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We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realise any more that a book can be valuable, valuable like a jewel, or a lovely picture, into which you can look deeper and deeper and get a more profound experience every time.
D. H. Lawrence
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It's really an interesting problem, trying to earn a living and serve art and serve kids. What I try to create are these visual layers so that readers feel the possibility exists that there might be something in the book they never saw before.
Peggy Rathmann
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Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.
Jerry B. Jenkins
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A week or so ago I did a two hour book review in Baltimore Maryland.
Betty Hill
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I have a number of friends that try to live off their writing, and there's way more pressure for a hit or to write a certain type of book. You can't do a limited-edition short-story book with drawings unless you don't want to eat anything but ramen.
Joe Meno
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In his book Stand Ye In Holy Places, President Harold B. Lee wrote that one is converted when his eyes see what he ought to see, his ears hear what he ought to hear and his heart understands what he ought to understand. "And what he ought to see, hear and understand is truth-eternal truth-and then practice it. That is conversion," he wrote.
Harold B. Lee
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I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?
Alan Alda
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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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My first book didn't even have a Canadian publisher. And that upset me, because I so wanted a readership up there.
Patrick deWitt
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I bought a book of Mark Twain quotes. That's about my speed. I'll read a couple quotes and put it down.
Robert James Ritchi
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The misfortunes which God is represented in the book of Job as allowing Satan to inflict on Job, merely to test his faith, are indications, if not of positive malevolence, at least of a suspicious and ruthless insecurity, which is characteristic more of a tyrant than of a wholly powerful and benevolent deity.
Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
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A stage play requires very different craft from a book, fiction or otherwise, and ditto from a screenplay.
Dirk Benedict
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My goal as a novelist is to create smart entertainment, books that keep bright people up too late, that make them want to read just one more chapter. Books that have ideas threaded in amidst the thrilling bits, ideas that I hope linger even after people close the book.
Marcus Sakey
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I just signed to do my next book with Ecco Press, a new primer or encyclopedia. This will be my take on what classic Italian cooking is.
Mario Batali
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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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I have great respect for the unconditional teachers called books. Because from a book, you can either learn, or you can’t.
Kamal Haasan
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I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together.
Fred Saberhagen
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One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
E. M. Forster
