Book Quotes
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All of it made me think about this book I want to write. It's about greed.
John Densmore The Doors
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I do think that hip-hop has a relationship with comic book culture, and Kung Fu movies too, for that matter.
Ali Shaheed Muhammad A Tribe Called Quest
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The development of the plot of the novel leads to a single point, and it's my opinion that the ending that the novel has, which is a somewhat ambiguous ending, is the only logical ending given the structure of the book as a whole.
Emily Barton
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
Ajahn Chah
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I thought that deserved a book and feel like the door needs to be open so people can say, "Ok, here we go, let's deal with this" because we're not dealing with it. I'm waiting for somebody to write another book but it hasn't happened yet, though I guess mine's only been out for a year and a half.
Brad Warner
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I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?
Ray Bradbury
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You may dream freely when you listen to music as well as when you look at painting. When you read a book you are the slave of the author's mind.
Paul Gauguin
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We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine survivors.
Andrea Riseborough
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The aim of my writing is to utterly remove the distance between author and reader so that the book becomes a sort of semipermeable membrane through which feelings, ideas, nutrients pass.
Erica Jong
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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
William Feather
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We can look high or we can look low in books or in journals, but the result is the same. The scientific literature has no answers to the question of the origin of the immune system.
Michael Behe
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I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
Marcel Proust
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I love a garden and a book.
Eliza Lucas
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The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of the iPad and the future of the book being up for re-imagination, I wonder whether we'll rediscover the importance of making texts richer visually.
Joshua Foer
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When you're doing a show like 'The Book of Mormon,' you're completely spent by the time the show is over.
Josh Gad
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Thomas Carlyle
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I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book.
Chris Van Allsburg
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This book is dedicated to all those who fell by the airside, for nothing is wasted, and every apparent failure is but a challenge to others.
Amy Johnson
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One of my favorite authors is Robert Cormier. He was a devout Catholic and a very nice man, which might not be the impression you get from reading his books.
Sara Zarr
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
Marcel Proust
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I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.
George Noory
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Never trust a man who reads only one book.
Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.
Josh Hutcherson