Book Quotes
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In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.
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In the early '90s, when I really started to find my voice, I was reading a lot of books, and I was moved by the writers, like Chinua Achebe, and I wanted to be able to write rhymes that were as potent as what I was reading.
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Any story that gets us thinking, and particularly young people, thinking why? Whether it's as a result of reading the book, or coming out of the theatre or the cinema, I think we should just simply be asking the question 'why'? Why did it happen to those people? Was it necessary? And anything that gets us thinking like that is really important.
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I wrote my first book at 20, but my whole focus from about the age of 12 was to be a writer.
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Hogben's Science for the Citizen would be an admirable text-book for such teaching.
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Sometimes I think about all the hours spent making lunches, carting kids from one place to another, being up in the middle of the night taking temperatures. People who haven't had to do that have, say, read every last book up there from cover to cover and probably remember it. There are trade-offs. But more life is more life.
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Poul Anderson's 'The High Crusade' may have had a greater impact on my development as a writer than any other book I ever read.
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There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.
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I just started writing down my thoughts on forestry in general, and some of the experiences that I've had with land management and forestry management. Then I realized, hey, I've got enough for a book here.
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I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.
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I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach myself how to do it.
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It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids.
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Aside for the dream of writing the core X-Men team, I think I would love to write an Excalibur book.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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AHA!" interrupted Officer Shrift, making another note in his little book. "Just as I thought: boys are the cause of everything.
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I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.
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Whenever I'm writing a book, small details from my life always creep in.
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I would put books on par with chocolate, because a good book is delicious.
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My major aim was to shape a book which would make its own comment, a wordless statement: to talk through the way it was shaped. As I have said, this was not noticed
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We're comic book fans; we're huge NASCAR fans.
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The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive emotions and how to overcome them.
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You're only as good as your last book.
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In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it.
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Promised Lands was a better book in my opinion, and it's still my mother's favorite of the three I've done, but I doubt anyone who isn't a blood relative has ever heard of it. Which is to say expectations aren't worth much in the book world.
