Book Quotes
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After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.
H. G. Wells
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You know, I don't think a lot about why one book connects with its readers and another doesn't. Probably because I don't want to start thinking, "Am I popular?" I spent way too much time thinking about that in high school.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
Jose Rizal
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The difference between the extras here and in France is the French extras read books. Actually, they hide the book and pretend that they're acting. Here, you can see everybody wants his break.
Berenice Bejo
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I am particularly wary of authors who put themselves on the cover of their own book.
Andy Dunn
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Whenever they tell me children want this sort of book and children need this sort of writing, I am going to smile politely and shut my earlids. I am a writer, not a caterer. There are plenty of caterers. But what children most want and need is what we and they don't know they want and don't think they need, and only writers can offer it to them.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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One good thing about leaving daily journalism was that I was no longer obliged to read all the book prize short lists.
Annalena McAfee
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There's something called the 'Washington Read,' which is the habit of many locals to go into a bookstore, pull a book off the shelf, rifle through the index to see if they're in there.
Mark Leibovich
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In every book I write, I try to name-check the most prominent influences, or the most prominent conscious influences.
China Mieville
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This is my book, and in my book my soul
With its two woven threads of joy and pain,
And both were yours before they were begun..
Bosie
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I like to sit down, relax, have a cup of coffee on the terrace and read a book. I like to travel the world - and I'm lucky to see so much through cycling.
Marianne Vos
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You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.'
Kim Edwards
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Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.
Marcus Samuelsson
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I've been a book collector since I was young, since I was a kid.
Brett Ratner
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If the world is a book, are you the hero, or just a walk-on part?
Tom Holt
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Books, like people, can't be reduced to the cost of the materials with which they were made. Books, like people, become unique and precious once you get to know them.
Yann Martel
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Is it OK for Amazon to know every word of every book you've read? Are you comfortable with that? Maybe you are. Is it OK to let everybody know you eat Corn Flakes? OK, but then there are certain products you might not want people to know that you're using.
Jesse Schell
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I hate the only one of my book jackets when I was made up professionally, my hair made into a smooth bell.
Antonia Fraser
