Book Quotes
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I'm very primitive in terms of economics. The kind of new business in which stock gets more valuable because the company grows, but there must be limits to growth. But if publishing is expanding to fill that retail space, it seems like there may be a necessary and unpleasant correction waiting down the road. How many books to people WANT?
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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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Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the more you write the nicer you become.
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A book is worth a few francs; we Germans can afford to destroy those. We all may not appreciate artistic merit, but cash value is another matter.
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I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we're sad, and being yellow when we're cowards, and when we're mad, we're red.
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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.
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But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do.
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I always resented books that tried to teach a lesson, where the characters are too good: They don't swear, they tell their mothers everything.
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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 sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?
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I never imagined while going through this horrifying illness that I would write a book or that it could ever be a movie.
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I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
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'The Great Gatsby' is a book I have read a few times, and it seems to get heavier every time I come to visit.
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I don't really read books. Wish I did.
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There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them.
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Americans like fat books and thin women.
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I have written 5 books that address major figures in our culture: books on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Tupac Shakur, Marvin Gaye and Bill Cosby. But even in the books that take up major figures, I hope to provoke conversation, insight and understanding about these personalities by providing new, fresh and vital information and analysis about them.
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I read the book and I think, "Well, this is the movie we're going to make," and then someone else reads it, and they take a completely different movie from it. And both are valid.
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You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest, at base.
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I work hard and I party hard. When I go to work, I know what I am doing and I do it to the best of my abilities. When I party, I take exactly the same rule book with me.
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What's the point of having a library full of books you've already read?
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I dream of writing a book like LOVERS some day. It is so spare but so rich. It is history made intimate, and a masterpiece of compression.
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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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It's hard to explain why, but that regret made me suffer. It seemed to be the sign of a true interest in Lila, something much stronger than the compliments for my discipline as a constant reader. It occurred to me that if Lila had taken out just a single book a year, on that book she would have left her imprint and the teacher would have felt it the moment she returned it, which I left no mark, I embodied only the persistence with which I added volume to volume in no particular order.
