Book Quotes
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I love a garden and a book.
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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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The best vacation is still a book, a renewable ticket to places real and imaginary.
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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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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Now let's take up the minorities in our civilisation, shall we? Bigger the population, the more minorities. Don't step on the toes of the dog-lovers, the cat-lovers, doctors, lawyers, merchants, chiefs, Mormons, Baptists, Unitarians, second-generation Chinese, Swedes, Italians, Germans, Texans, Brooklynites, Irishmen, people from Oregon or Mexico. The people in this book, this play, this TV serial are not meant to represent any actual painters, cartographers, mechanics anywhere. The bigger your market, Montag, the less you handle controversy, remember that!
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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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Be as careful of the books you read as the company you keep.
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it.
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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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Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there.
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Coming off of 'Book of Mormon,' I had a lot of opportunities. I didn't want to do TV, actually. I really wanted to get paid nothing and keep doing theater at all costs.
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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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What's important to me is that I put messages out, whether it's a TED talk, whether it's a book.
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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
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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.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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There's no book or play or series or anything that speaks to everyone, because then it wouldn't speak to anyone.
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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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.
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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.
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I thought, if ever there were a time to write a book about hope, it's now.
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But privately when things got very bad I often looked into books to see whether I could find some helpful words, and one day I read, "The forgiveness of sins is perpetual and righteousness first is not required." This impressed me so deeply that I went around saying it to myself. But then I forgot which book it was.
