Book Quotes
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I have a lot of spiritual books that I read that I really, really love - everything from the Bible to Joseph Campbell, who I love. He wrote The Hero of a Thousand Faces. It's about exploring what is heroic in you. It helps me a lot.
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It's not surprising to see in my own work, looking back, and in the work of some of my peers, an attention to family. It's nice to write a book that does tend toward significance and meaning, and where else are you sure of finding it?
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We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.
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An American has invented a remote control that will turn off any telly within a 20ft radius. What a marvellous device! What a splendid invention! What a really helpful and improving way of devoting your time to building something that turns off culture. Next week, I'm instigating Burn a Book Week, to encourage even more conversation. I've come up with a fantastic little device which I'll call a box of matches.
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Free time is a terrible thing to waste. Read a book.
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Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to get.
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When I was crossing into Gaza, I was asked at the checkpost whether I was carrying any weapons. I replied: Oh yes, my prayer books.
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The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'
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I'm not a writer's writer. I'm not a craftsman. I could be, and that would be a one-book-a-year operation.
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The best books come from someplace inside. You don't write because you want to, but because you have to.
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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
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I don't intend to write the same kind of book for the rest of my life because I feel I would not be satisfied only writing in one mode.
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The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.
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I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.
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I've read the 'Book of Revelation' a million times. It does not make sense, obviously. It needs to be decoded.
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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.
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My first book of poems was published privately in 1949. That was my mother. The book was '25 Poems.' It cost 200 dollars.
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Amity Gaige has written a flawless book. It does not contain a single false note. Playful and inventive, SCHRODER movingly depicts the ways we confound our own hearts--how even with the best intentions, we fail to love those closest to us as well as we wish we could. Eric Schroder should take his place among the most charismatic and memorable characters in contemporary fiction, and Amity Gaige her place among the most talented and impressive writers working today.
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Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation... Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic.
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I cry at the end of every book.
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I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.
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We can write the book on how to run a successful write-in campaign for the United States Senate.
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It has always pleased me to read while eating if I have no companion; it gives me the society I lack. I devour alternately a page and a mouthful; it is as though my book were dining with me.
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I've never read one book about my father.
