Book Quotes
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I assumed just from being around, all these years, that people would immediately glom on to, Well, it's a departure, and it's a dystopian kind of thing, and that's natural, of course. But it's surprised me - not even surprised me, but it's pleased me - how much people have been responding to the way the book was written.
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The illustrators work so much harder on the books than the writers do. I mean, that's so much work doing what they do, and it's terrible for them.
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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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I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30.
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A few months ago, I would have thrown this book down in disgust and walked away—maybe even returned home, where the only books I knew reminded me of my father. But now… My fingers wrapped around the spine of the book. Now I was willing to try anything.
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Anytime you take a book and make it into a movie, you're going to have people who have their version of it in their minds and whatnot. You can't please everybody.
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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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My dad liked more macho adventure books like Shogun or spy novels. My mother reads murder mysteries. In fact, so does her mother, my grandma. That's where I trace the familial line of murder mystery obsession.
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The heart is the only book worth reading.
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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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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 no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
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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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I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.
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All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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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.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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My doctors were of one mind: unless something was immediately done, I had maybe six months to live. A quintuple bypass was suggested. Quintuple! I was impressed, though somewhat disturbed because I was in the middle of work on a new book.
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Whatever your favorite genre is, you can probably trace your love for it back to one single book that really moved you.
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I would love it if my book was considered chick-lit or a beach read. That would be great. People would buy my book.
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If you read, your book is kind of your friend, because it's like the book is telling you its story and you're being the listener.
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
