Book Quotes
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I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.
Judy Blume
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You believe in a book that has sticks turning into snakes, and you say we are the ones that need help?
Dan Barker
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I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.
Stephen Covey
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I have sometimes dreamt ... that when the Day of Judgment dawns and the great conquerors and lawyers and statesmen come to receive their rewards -- their crowns, their laurels, their names carved indelibly upon imperishable marble -- the Almighty will turn to Peter and will say, not without a certain envy when He sees us coming with our books under our arms, "Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them here. They have loved reading.
Virginia Woolf
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Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant passages.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I had never read in public, never given an interview. I was doing it all and trying to produce the next book and raise three young kids and had another child on the way.
Nick Bantock
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The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.
Charles McGrath
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If someone's going to publish a book about addiction, it has to say something new and different. It has to be something we haven't read before. A lot of these books are published because the writing is wonderful. The Frey book has superb writing, and that can be enough to sell a book.
Charles Adams
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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
Ahmed H. Zewail
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Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.
Charles Lenox Remond
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I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly what happened to me!' I just use little snippets of things as a starting point!
Cecily von Ziegesar
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And now," he continued, speaking to Milo, "where were you on the night of July 27?" "What does that have to do with it?" asked Milo. "It's my birthday, that's what," said the policeman as he entered "Forgot my birthday" in his little book. "Boys always forget other people's birthdays.
Norton Juster
