Book Quotes
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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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The Golden Compass is one of the best fantasy / adventure stories that I have read. This is a book no one should miss.
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It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn it from a book.
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I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books.
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I jealously guard my research time and I love fully immersing myself in those dusty old books and papers. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of my job.
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An unread book does nobody any good.
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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
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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.
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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Usually you tend to glean much more information about your character from what other people say about you, rather than how it's described in the books.
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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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The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment to discover the truth... It takes the highest courage to utter unpopular truths.
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I think the MFA programs have had a real effect on the state of American fiction, but I don't think it's a question of "this is written by someone with an MFA, and this isn't." I challenge anyone to identify a book in that way. It's totally impossible.
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A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
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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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It's true though: time moves in its own special way in the middle of the night," the bartender says, loudly striking a book match and lighting a cigarette. "You can't fight it.
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With a few exceptions, the critics of children's books are remarkably lenient souls.... Most of us assume there is something goodin every child; the critics go from this to assume there is something good in every book written for a child. It is not a sound theory.
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I loved reading historical novels when I was young, but I definitely don't think I wrote one. When I read my book through, when it was completely done and in printed galleys, I was surprised by how uninterested in the passage of time and history the book seemed to be. Even though you can feel it all there, that's just not what it's focused on.
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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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What I always tell my clients is to put yourself in your potential customer's shoes - what would you want to hear about this story/book and does this marketing material deliver that information?
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I believe God wrote the Word in your essence. That's the genius of my Father. You are born knowing right from wrong. You don't need a book to tell you that!
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There's only one thing more frightening than being asked to do a book tour, and that's not being asked to do a book tour.
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Preface to second edition. I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be.
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The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.
