Book Quotes
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The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.
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To write that essential book, a great writer does not need to invent it but merely to translate it, since it already exists in each one of us. The duty and task of a writer are those of translator.
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Books opened up a whole new world to me. Through them I discovered new ideas, traveled to new places, and met new people. Books helped me learn to understand other people and they taught me a lot about myself. ... Some books you never forget. Some characters become your friends for life.
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Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go.
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It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
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I wanted to do a weird book and reestablish my independent, small-press roots.
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This book fills a much-needed gap.
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I have written 5 books that address major figures in our culture: books on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Tupac Shakur, Marvin Gaye and Bill Cosby. But even in the books that take up major figures, I hope to provoke conversation, insight and understanding about these personalities by providing new, fresh and vital information and analysis about them.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.
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Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.
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Each reader reads only what is already within himself. The book is only a sort of optical instrument which the writer offers to the reader to enable the latter to discover in himself what he would not have found but for the aid of the book.
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You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.
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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
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Pan me, don't give me the part, publish everybody's book but this one and I will still make it!
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You need a theme in a picture book just as much or maybe even more than you need it in a novel.
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Only one book is worth reading: the heart.
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On the other hand, I still approach each book with the same basic plan in mind - to put some people under severe stress and see how they hold up.
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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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I think most Native American literature is unreadable by the vast majority of Native Americans. Generally speaking Indians don't read books. It's not a book culture. That's why I'm trying to make movies. Indians go to movies; Indians own video recorders.
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
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I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.
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You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries.
