Book Quotes
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Generally speaking, men are influenced by books which clarify their own thought, which express their own notions well, or which suggest to them ideas which their minds are already predisposed to accept
Carl L. Becker -
It would be a crime against Twilight audience to go R-rated... Yet the rating is based on a much more mature book Breaking Dawn,Stephenie Meyer. We need to progress and be more sophisticated.
Wyck Godfrey
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God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
Joni Eareckson Tada -
I felt that not only in my book but in novels in general there was something that truly agitated me, a bare and throbbing heart . . . But was that what I wanted? To write, to write with purpose, to write better than I had already? And to study the stories of the past and the present to understand how they worked, and to learn, learn everything about the world with the sole purpose of constructing living hearts ...
Elena Ferrante -
The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.
Seth Godin -
I'm a big reader, so I tend to already know the books when they're adapted into something.
Carrie Coon -
By the time I get through writing a score, I know the book better than the book writer does, because I've examined every word, and questioned the book writer on every word.
Stephen Sondheim -
Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.
Ray Bradbury
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His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore.
Ray Bradbury -
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.
Sean Bean -
Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be less a historical person than a marker for democratic personhood, can't really write a memoir full of a life's particularities.
Ben Lerner -
My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
Sara Zarr -
I never imagined I'd write a book.
Simon Sinek -
Putting lessons in young adult books is very dangerous.
Ned Vizzini
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A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
Catherynne M. Valente -
I love a garden and a book.
Eliza Lucas -
I’m just another memory in a box in the closet collecting dust. I’m just another promise that you broke when we broke up. I’m just another old flame. We were burning hot until we burned out. I’m just another first name in your little black book with the ink crossed out. Just another girl, just another girl…
Carly Pearce -
I guess you could say that the Bible is a book that doesn't try to tell you what to think. Instead, it tries to teach you how to think. It stretches your thinking; it challenges you to think bigger and harder than you ever have.
Brian D. McLaren -
I read the paper every day. There are certain subjects that will catch my attention. I have an entire file of articles. Of course I make up the story, especially since most criminals are not very smart and fictional crime must be clever. I have to make sure the story I am telling is interesting and realistic. In this book I went on line and found out the manners of codes. I thought it interesting to use them as a jumping off point.
Sue Grafton -
For me, writing is more a process of discovering the book than planning it.
Lois McMaster
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When Bernard Leach wrote his book, he wrote about the fact that even when pots are made in a series, there is a personality to each pot and that the person who made it reflects their personality into the clay.
Warren MacKenzie -
I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
Stanley Kubrick -
About Swami Vivekanada: I am not saying that the message of the Swami was the final word in our nationalism... But it was tremendous - something with an undying glory of its own. If you read his books, if you read his lectures, you are struck at once with his love of humanity, his patriotism, not abstract patriotism which came to us from Europe but of different nature altogether a more living thing, something which we feel within ourselves when we read his writings.
Chittaranjan Das -
You can't just plain die. You got to do it by the book.
Richard McKenna