Book Quotes
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In a weak moment, I have written a book.
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A movie's very different from the book, and it's different from the script, and it's usually one person's vision.
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There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.
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Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you can take out and unfold in your darkest times, pressing down on the corners and peering in close, hoping you still recognize the person you see there.
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What if the book (of Genesis) is describing a dawning awareness of the world? The anthropologist Edmund Leach has argued that the 'bit' or binary digit is the basic unit of pre-logical communication. Genesis is a sprouting of 'bits', ie elementary binary distinctions.
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Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be happy.
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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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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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I spend a huge amount of time writing about the book instead of writing the actual text.
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With a book I am the writer and I am also the director and I'm all of the actors and I'm the special effects guy and the lighting technician: I'm all of that. So if it's good or bad, it's all up to me.
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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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I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.
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I'll force myself to sit down and read a couple of chapters of a great book or I'll force myself to sit and listen to some amazing music or I'll go see a play. I find that watching or experiencing other forms of art gets my brain in action. It makes me feel connected to the creative energies and then that tends to get things going.
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Hi," Kami said to Dorothy, the head librarian…"Can you tell me where I could find the books on Satanism?" Twenty minutes later, she had Dorothy convinced that it was for a school project, and she really did not have to telephone Kami's parents.
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There's still nothing like a book to really make you feel like you've disappeared into a world.
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We are told by media - books, television, reality shows - that heartbreak is this terrible thing and yet we should seek it. We're told that heartbreak is all about love and we should just go after that high over and over again. We are told it is healthy to be addicted to this kind of behavior and the highs associated with love. But, that's not all what heartbreak is.
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I'm very troubled when editors oblige their film critics to read the novel before they see the film. Reading the book right before you see the film will almost certainly ruin the film for you.
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I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.
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You kiss by th' book.
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Each time, I think I'm never going to write another book. It never gets easier.
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You will never be lonely with a book at your side.
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When you become published and become a reviewer, piles of books come along and you are pushed by fashion and what you are commissioned to do.
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Ever since I was little, I’ve loved making hand-made cards and presents and arts & crafts for people. The book gives me a similar experience. I love being able to hold this object in my hands and say, “This is mine. I made this. It is a gift for you.” I love that feeling. Especially since this particular object contains ten years worth of my poems.
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Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them?
