Book Quotes
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No book is a chapter, no chapter tells the whole story, no mistake defines who we are. Hope makes our lives page turners.
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Everyone has failed, everyone has misspoken, everyone has meant well but done the wrong thing. Your favorite restaurants, cafes and books have all gotten a one-star review along the way. No brand is perfect, no individual can pretend to be either. Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
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I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
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In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and wishes, but providence writes on the other side, and what it ordains is seldom our goal.
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...there is no doubt something will be done sooner or later to enable us to put on a house every day, just as we put on clothes or choose a book to read or a theater to go to, like choosing a day to be lived, within the limits grated by other destinies or chances.
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Book tours are like boot camp but with little sleep and less food.
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I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.
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I immersed myself in The Periodic Table gladly and gratefully. There is nothing superfluous here, everything this book contains is essential. It is wonderful pure, and beautifully translated...I was deeply impressed.
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The smaller the ball used in the sport, the better the book.
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I've lost my writing skills since college. I couldn't write a book. It would take a long time.
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I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.
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You kiss by th' book.
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I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.
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you want to write a book for so many reasons ... The main reason ... is because it will make you well-known and beloved and popular and successful and famous and respected. You also write ... to make money, but that motivation is not first on the list.
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That's my anxiety dream. I go to the library and all the books on my subject are out.
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A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.
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Perhaps it is partly that we need to love books ourselves as parents, grandparents and teachers in order to pass on that passion for stories to our children. It's not about testing and reading schemes, but about loving stories and passing on that passion to our children.
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Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
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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.
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Even after Sword was published, I was still only thinking about the next book, Elfstones.
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We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
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I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.
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I've always believed that everything that is said from authority is either the authority of one's own heart, one's own brain, one's own reading, one's own trust, but not the authority of someone who claims it because they're speaking for God and they know the truth because it's written in a book. That, essentially, is where I come from. In a sense, tolerance is my religion. Reason is my religion.
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I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first.
