Book Quotes
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To decide to reach for this blue and not that one, to switch styles or subject matter, to move, in the middle of a sentence, in one direction or another, to commit to this book when that one is also calling, are the sorts of choices that artists must make if they are to function.
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Those who say they would write a book if only they had time will never become authors.
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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.
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A status symbol is a book. A very easy book to read is The Catcher in the Rye. Walk around with that under your arm, kids. That is status.
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I go on vacation strictly to relax - to kick back with a good book and do nothing else but read, sleep and eat.
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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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More is got from one book on which the thought settles for a definite end in knowledge, than from libraries skimmed over by a wandering eye.
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Choose a book, ... Any book. Bring it here, and I'll show you what else the world can offer.
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Im very comfortable with tweeting, I have a very active author Facebook page, I Skype book clubs all over the world.
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I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.
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A good book written for children can be read by adults
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I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
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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.
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I've had journals ever since I was really little. Sometimes I write poems and stuff, but for the most part I write down what happens to me during the day that I don't want to forget. So I have books filled with little things like that.
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Americans like fat books and thin women.
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The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
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Not that the writers weren't good. I believe in those books and those writers very much. It's just that in the climate it's really hard to keep the lights on and the doors open when you're selling poetry and literature that appeals to a fringe audience.
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More than at any other time, when I hold a beloved book in my hand my limitations fall from me, my spirit is free.
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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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All that a university or final highest school. can do for us is still but what the first school began doing--teach us to read. We learn to read in various languages, in various sciences; we learn the alphabet and letters of all manner of books. But the place where we are to get knowledge, even theoretic knowledge, is the books themselves. It depends on what we read, after all manner of professors have done their best for us. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an adaptation of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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Following takes why. Transactions take what. It has to be real. It has to be the same for writing a book.
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It's nice when critics say 'Emperor of the Air' is an important book of stories.
