Book Quotes
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You can't write a children's book that takes more than five or six minutes to read, because it will drive the parents batty. It has to be compact. Nobody thinks about the parents when they write these stupid books. I could write longer children's books, but it would actually be bad if I did.
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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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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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Stories make you think and dream; books make you want to ask questions.
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All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?
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A book is a loaded gun.
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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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I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.
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I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.
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I'll tell you what I think. I think you need to stay indoors reading more books!
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My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.
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I often like to think that our map of the world is wrong, that where we have centered physics, we should actually place literature as the central metaphor that we want to work out from. Because I think literature occupies the same relationship to life that life occupies to death. A book is life with one dimension pulled out of it. And life is something that lacks a dimension which death will give it. I imagine death to be a kind of release into the imagination in the sense that for characters in a book, what we experience is an unimaginable dimension of freedom.
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I wrote my book to free myself from it, not to be its prisoner.
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I love story songs because I've always loved books.
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In your reading, find books to improve your color sense, your sense of shape and size in the world.
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It's an Obama book, certainly. I was delighted, and astonished, to hear recently that he was reading it. It's a book about a new kind of American reality, one that takes diversity for granted. It doesn't celebrate diversity, actually, it just says: this is how we live now.
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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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A lot of my close friends had tolerantly washed their hands of the whole idea of me writing a book. They had said to themselves, "I don't know what he's doing."
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My favorite sports novel is End Zone by Delillo. It's such a great looking book too, the black cover with the football player on it. It's just a fantastic little book.
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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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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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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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The fact is that I am always thinking of something to build. A new book, radio show, plans for a trip somewhere. I am not a very happy person but I feel pretty even when I am working, so I guess that is how I am wired.
