Book Quotes
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Since the choice of what we curl up with is often crucial for our solace and sanity, we need to learn how to nurture the talent of selection. Book browsing is a meditative art...Books are as essential as breathing.
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Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.
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I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!
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God... your book is beautiful!
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It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
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Don't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life.
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The best kind of book," said Barnaby, "is a magic book." "Naturally," said John.
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It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.
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Memoir today is like one big game of misery poker: The more outlandish, outrageous, or just plain out-there the recounted life, the more likely the book is to attract the attention of reviewers, talk-show bookers, and, ultimately, the public.
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"Summer Sisters" is probably my least autobiographical book. The whole idea started with rowing down the pond. And I heard an explosion. I don't like sudden loud noises. They scare me. And then all these people came running down the hill and jumped in the water in their finery and a bride and groom was with them, and that's where it all started.
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I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
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The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this.
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To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record.
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Nothing mattered ... but writing books, and living the kind of life that made it possible to write them.
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The Bible is still loved by millions, read by millions, and studied by millions. It remains the most published and most read book in the world of literature.
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All my life I've been involved with racial politics. I was a Freedom Rider in the South. I was the author of books on gang violence, I was a community organizer in Newark, New Jersey, and when I spoke to the Black Caucus, congressional and state, I realized they were going all the way for Hillary Clinton and so was the Latino caucus in Sacramento and I asked myself this question: "Do I really want to cast my vote against these people who have been central to my life and to the soul of the country?" And so I went with them. Period.
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I was in the back of the book in the The Reporter doing music.
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The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.
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Some might say we lose ourselves in a good book. In truth, we find ourselves.
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I've been approached many times to write all sorts of books about my past and my personal life. I get interest from people who want to do reality shows, and somebody just offered me a huge amount of money to write my spiritual memoirs. I'm just not interested.
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If there was anything at all in the Book, anything of hope and peace for His blind and bewildered spawn which He had chosen above all others to offer immortality, THOU SHALT NOT KILL must be it.
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Not being the sort to throw a book, she pounded her fist on her cushion.
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I grew up really into comic books, and I actually thought I was going to be a comic-book artist. That was my ambition before I realized I couldn't keep characters looking the same from panel to panel.
