Book Quotes
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I feel like every time I start up, it's like a truck you have to get into 15th gear, so you very solely crank into that mental space where you feel really immersed in the world of the book and then you can just kind of go.
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Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me."
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My books for adults had been previously challenged and banned so I'd had experience with it. I always find it sad and amusing: Sad to think that such archaic and potentially dangerous censorious beliefs still exist, and amused because these censors only make a book more powerful and seductive when trying to ban it.
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Most books today seemed to have been written overnight from books read the day before.
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A laudation in Greek is of marvellous efficacy on the title-page of a book.
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When I was a kid my primary goal in life was to find a book that was alive. Not alive in the human sense, but like a thing that would send me to a place not otherwise accessible on Earth. This book should have hidden words encrypted beneath the printed ones, so that if I worked hard enough and discovered the code I would somehow end up inside the book, or the book would take on a body and consume me, revealing a secret set of rooms behind the wall in my bedroom, for instance, inside which anything could be.
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Every book is a box of ideas.
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By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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Jesmyn Ward returns to the world of her first two books, but here in the mode of non-fiction. A clear-eyed witness to the harrowing stories of 'men we reaped,' she quickens the dead and brings them, vividly alive again. An eloquent, grief-steeped account.
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There are many ways of discarding books. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But the surest way is to lend them. Then they never come back to bother you.
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I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?
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' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.
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Put simply the novel stands between us and the hardening concept of statistical man. There is no other medium in which we can live for so long and so intimately with a character. That is the service a novel renders.
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A woman's destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.
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A night journey is essentially a thing of possibilities.
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I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world.
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I write books for all age groups - young kids, teenagers and adults - because I get a range of different ideas.
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Writing a book is like running a marathon. You need to be fit to do it, mentally and, as far as possible, physically.
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The book of Revelation is written largely in symbols.
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When you read a book as a child, it becomes a part of your identity in a way that no other reading in your whole life does.
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The best advice about women was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes to a woman's mind, I know nothing."
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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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You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years.
