Book Quotes
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Role models are fine. Roll models are better. Anyone who can do a forward roll is pretty awesome in my book.
Connor Ripley
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The script is the coloring book that you're given, and your job is to figure out how to color it in. And also when and where to color outside the lines.
James Spader
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There are persons who are never easy unless they are putting your books and papers in order--that is, according to their notions of the matter--and hide things lest they should be lost, where neither the owner nor anybody else can find them. This is a sort of magpie faculty. If anything is left where you want it, it is called litter. There is a pedantry in housewifery, as well as in the gravest concerns. Abraham Tucker complained that whenever his maid servant had been in his library, he could not see comfortably to work again for several days.
William Hazlitt
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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.
Judy Blume
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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.
Bryan Talbot
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And Silence of the Lambs is a really smart book.
Jonathan Franzen
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For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.
Virginia Woolf
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The last thing that we find in making a book is to know what we must put first.
Blaise Pascal
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Philosophy is not a body of knowledge to impart to someone, that's why reading philosophy books isn't always the best way of learning philosophy. Philosophy is really more the process of rational engagement, rational reflection with a diversity of views and ideas and opinions and trying to sort of reason your way through to a more reflective position. I think if you look at it that way, philosophizing is to some extent some small way a part of almost everyone's lives although they don't recognize it as such and a lot of people are embarrassed about it.
Dale Jamieson
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
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If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment.
Saul David
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Our memory reaches back through recorded history. The memory book lies open, and the hand still writes.
Neal Bascomb
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I do write long, long character notes - family background, history, details of appearance - much more than will ever appear in the novel. I think this is what lifts a book from that early calculated, artificial stage.
Anne Tyler
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The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.
William Ellery Channing
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A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.
Elena Ferrante
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I wonder if he's planning a book called SRS? Or F'lu?
James Nicoll
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On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.
Terry Brooks
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I always have trouble with titles for my books. I usually have no title until the editor has to present the book and calls me frantically, 'Judy, we need a title.
Judy Blume
