Book Quotes
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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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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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Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
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We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material.
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And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.
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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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I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed.
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My life has been an open book, for better or for worse.
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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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Living on silence,Living by the book.You get it to a scienceOf living on one good look.So put out all the firesAnd blow away the smoke.I'm getting pretty tiredOf living on hope.
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This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead
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Our book is Genesis. Their book is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the original environmental hoax.
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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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I remember, when I went away to college at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, my aunt sent me a book with the rules of being a Southern Belle. One of the rules was to never wear white after Labor Day. Fashion has a lot to do with confidence and making up your own rules.
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The thing about living in New York as a writer is that you hit that age where it feels like everyone has a book all at the same time. It's like that one year where you're invited to twenty weddings.
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Why sleep when there are books to read.
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One novel that I think is an overriding influence in my life is 'All the King's Men,' the most beautiful book written in the U.S.
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My favourite part of writing a book is thinking up the ideas, and that can start a long time before I actually sit down at my desk.
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My ideal is a book that is perfect on every page, that gives you tremendous aesthetic joy on every page. I suppose I am trying to write such a book.
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When I'm writing fiction I'm thinking, God, this is so hard - I have to make all this stuff up! I wish I were writing a nonfiction book where all the facts are laid out and I don't have to be so much at sea.
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Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book.
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I think of a child's mind as a blank book. During the first years of his life, much will be written on the pages. The quality of that writing will affect his life profoundly.
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I would imagine that anyone picking up a book written by me would expect a fast-paced story that requires minimal effort to turn the pages. The reader would also be looking for some out-of-the-ordinary revelations along the way. At the end of the day, I'm a writer who simply loves revealing stuff that is out-of-the-ordinary.
