Book Quotes
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If you discover a word in my book that you don't understand, ask your parents so they can look it up in the dictionary for you.
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Reading Stephen King's book, On Writing, was like being cornered and forced to have a long, drawn out mental enema.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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I was about 13, in some ways, when I wrote the first book. Approximately 18 when I wrote the second.
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It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.
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When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestseller, much less a major motion picture and now a big Broadway musical. What's amazing about the book is that it has never gone out of print.
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In our dreams we have seen another world, an honest world, a world decidedly more fair than the one in which we now live. We saw that in this world there was no need for armies; peace, justice and liberty were so common that no one talked about them as far-off concepts, but as things such as bread, birds, air, water, like book and voice.
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You don't have to believe in God, but you should believe in The Book.
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He brought his malformed wisdom, his pool-hall, locker-room, joke-book wisdom to the front.
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I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent Van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can't do that. I'm in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person.
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I don't think of people as black or white. It's a question of are they photogenic or not? I don't think anyone says, 'Let's book her. She's black.' I think they say, 'Let's book her. She's good.' We've come that far.
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Style and Structure are the essence of a book; great ideas are hogwash.
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I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.
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I receive emails from readers that both break my heart and give me a profound sense of connection. Several months ago, I received an email from a teacher who told me that 'Legend' was the first book one of her troubled young students had ever read to the end. He cried when he finished it. Stories like that stay with you forever.
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I don't read reviews because by then it's too late - whatever anyone says, the book won't change. It is written.
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When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
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Perhaps if I knew I would be stranded on an island with but one book, I would choose the Bible. For no religious reason whatsoever, but because of the varieties of stories, which might be useful as the days pass.
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I read books all the time. I'm just half looking for something to do; I mostly just read for pleasure. Occasionally I stumble across something that could be a movie, but I don't put a book down just because I don't see a movie in it, either.
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Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.
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The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
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When I set out to write 'I'm Judging You,' I wanted to create something that was both timely and timeless. But I didn't know how timely this book would be until we, the people of the United States, elected a walking Cheeto to the highest office in the land on November 8, 2016.
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It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.
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The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable.
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I've always felt that I was a bit of an outsider to the British children's-book illustration scene, because I don't work in line and wash.
