Book Quotes
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I like books that are exciting and that make you think about things, as well. I like things that have a twist - like 'Atonement,' which I haven't read obviously, as I'm a bit young.
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The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
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I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.
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Don't come to New York until you've finished a book. It's too expensive. You'll never write anything. You'll spend all your time working to pay the rent.
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You ever buy a book and not read it? You feel almost guilty having it up on a bookshelf. People are like, "Hey, how's that book?" "I haven't read it." "Oh, did you just buy it?" "I've had it since high school." "Well, can I borrow it?" "No."
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When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book.
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Every book teaches me something about my process, and they are all challenging in one way or another.
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Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.
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Being on 'Idol,' you have no choice but to be an open book.
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I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.
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An invaluable little book.... What Makes a Terrorist uses standard tools of economics and statistical analysis to get at the truth about terrorism.... Krueger finds one familiar fact in all his numbers. Countries with fewer civil liberties tend to produce more terrorists.
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I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book.
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When you feel your book is the height of irrelevance you can return to the excitement of the daily news.
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When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.
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A book should have an intellectual shape and a heft that comes with dealing with a primary subject.
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There is no frigate like a book and no harbor like a library, where those who love books but can't afford their own complete collections, or those who need a computer, or kids who need a safe place to read after school, or moms with toddlers who want their babies to learn to read, can all come together and share in a great community resource.
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Tightly-plotted, well-researched and beautifully drawn, this book is a real delight. Garen Ewing's mix of engaging characters, exciting old-school adventure, attractive ligne claire artwork and fluid storytelling makes The Rainbow Orchid easily one of the best graphic novels of the year.
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It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.
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...so I blocked it from my mind. I could do that with things I didn't want to think about, like snapping shut a book.
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A book's flaws make it less predictable.
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I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.
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Laurence kept sneaking looks under the table at his propped-open copy of Have Space Suit - Will Travel. He was already halfway through the book.
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I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
