Book Quotes
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I had no idea how complicated and solitary it could be to write a simple book.
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By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream
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I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on the cover.
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You might be a redneck if... the blue book value of your truck goes up and down depending on how much gas it has in it.
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If I ever write a book, it will be called 'Bottle Blonde.'
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Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching away one's will to live.
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I feel like today's culture seeks at every turn to place more and more power in the hands of the individual. Bookstores are lined with shelves filled with self-help books. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and every other social media outlets turn our focus inwards, allowing us to fall more and more in love with ourselves, our thoughts, our opinions, our voices.
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You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible weapons.. .
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When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.
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Our book is Genesis. Their book is Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, the original environmental hoax.
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Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
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One should never underestimate the power of books.
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
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I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.
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His best-selling book, The Goal, has sold over 6 million copies and has been translated into 35 languages. It continues to be required reading in major business schools.
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A novel with a bad middle is a bad book. A bad ending is something I've just gotten in the habit of forgiving.
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As a preacher, my charge is to proclaim the message of the Scriptures. To help the people in my congregation become a people of the book. I love getting to do this.
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There is nothing nicer than nodding off while reading. Going fast asleep and then being woken by the crash of the book on the floor, then saying to yourself, well it doesn't matter much. An admirable feeling.
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'In Cold Blood' is not a thriller at all, really. It is, however, the first work of its kind: a true crime book that reads like fiction.
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Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just have to ask, 'Is this a story worth telling?'
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Kevin Freeman has been warning America’s leadership of the dangers of financial terrorism for the last three years. It is happening now and Kevin provides the evidence in his book Secret Weapon. Every American needs to understand how our financial markets have been manipulated by people who want to destroy the nation and how they can do even greater damage in the future. This book is a critical read for everyone.
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You can't write a book about Hillary Clinton and not anticipate some blowback, so I always knew it was going to be something.
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Those tragic comedians, the Chamber of Commerce red hunters, the Women's Christian Temperance Union smellers, the censors of books, the Klan regulators, the Methodist prowlers, the Baptist guardians of sacred vessels-we have the national mentality of a police lieutenant.
