Book Quotes
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I love escaping into film, because everyday life I find quite troublesome. So any excuse to go into a cinema and say goodbye to the world for a couple of hours, or in a book or whatever, is great.
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My dad is still the only Mraz in the Mechanicsville phone book, so he's getting calls from girls to see if I'm home!
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Our ownership in Christ is documented in the Word of God, and our names are registered in the Lamb's Book of Life.
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I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
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A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.
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One of my favorite stories growing up was 'A Wrinkle in Time'. I loved that book.
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
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When you're on book tours, you definitely need chocolate. At all times.
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I work in my office on the campus of the University of Texas. It's the sort of place described as 'book-lined', but it's recently tipped over into 'fire-hazard' territory.
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It's – I write the books and let the market find who reads it. I guess a young adult is anywhere from ten to fifteen.
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When I get an idea for a book, something appeals to me, it's usually a character. I'll see a picture of a female marshal in front of the courthouse in Miami and she's got a shotgun on her hip and it goes up on an angle. And she's good-looking. And I say, 'I've got to use her.'
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Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
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I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring. To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have. You know, all those incredible geniuses concentrated their lifetimes' experiences in books. It's much better than chattering away to somebody who's never read anything and knows nothing at all.
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
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Movies are different from books and you need to be open to go into that difference.
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It usually takes me a year to do a book. A year or eighteen months.
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…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly conventionality, but never her soul.
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If you were to second guess your decision to book some time to visit an Indian community, that would be a reservation reservation reservation.
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A book and a movie are different animals. You need a cinematic perspective to be involved in the motion pictures. And this is something I lack.
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And my father always took me to the library. We were both book addicts.
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In the early 1980s, I wrote a book called 'The Complete Guide to Financial Privacy.' If I would write that book today, it would be a pamphlet. There is precious little privacy left.
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I was not trying to write some sort of serious meditation on war and peace. 'The Grace of Kings' is meant to be a fun book. It's meant to be an epic fantasy.
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'The Man Who Never Was,' by Ewen Montagu, remains the best book about wartime espionage written by an active participant - incomplete, and dry in parts, it nonetheless summons up the ingenuity and sheer eccentricity of those who played this strange and dangerous game.
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I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book.
