Book Quotes
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If you look at books that describe the 16 personality types, you can see how different they are from each other.
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When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor.
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Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in the rabbit's position.
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You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.
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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.
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I'd love to do a whole series of stories and have them collected into books.
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In the hospital, I read a book about American Indians and saw in it the name of Nike. It was written incorrectly, as I later learned. But I called my daughter Nike.
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Who needs a stupid grampa-loving, book-reading, good-smelling boy who I like to talk to?
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What we accepted as great art - whether the book, the script, the painting, the symphony - is that which could be saved and savored. But the performances of the athletic artists who ran and jumped and wrestled were gone with the wind.
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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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It's interesting to think about how the book changed us.
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Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year, and will guarantee your success.
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Over the years, my books have been given a lot more credence than they should. I don't think people should take them quite that seriously. They're not a theological treatise; they were never intended to be. I find myself in awkward situations sometimes because people think I'm some great authority on spiritual warfare, but I'm not. I never have been.
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I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You don't know at all what you're going to find there. That can be thrilling when you read a book, especially when you're a kid and you're reading stories.
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In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit vita nova: Here begins the new life’.
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How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen.
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I'd love to do a book with scratch n' sniff pages and pieces of string and plastic attached to the pages, you know?
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When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?
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My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.
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I like some of Annie Proulx, some of those very brief stories of hers. And I love J. M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello. I like Geoff Dyer. I also liked W. G. Sebald, especially his book 'The Emigrants'.
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Eventually we even got to the point where we could disagree with Bernard Leach. I mean, when we first went there, gee, I mean, this was a man who had written a book. He was, in a sense, God, and we for the first couple of weeks called him Mr. Leach.
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They were made up names in Dune that I didn't know how to pronounce, but I knew how I should sound because I was a sci-fi fan myself. I hadn't read the book, but I knew that I was the princess of the universe. I went in and sort of made her up, and David Lynch thought it matched and cast me.
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I'm partial to a Muji recycled-paper sketch book and a Sharpie ultrafine marker.
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I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge responsibility to the fans of this incredible book and I don't take it lightly. I will give everything I have to these movies and to this role to make it worthy of Suzanne Collins' masterpiece.
