Book Quotes
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Ive read an awful lot of books, Ive read alot of awful books
Michael Caine -
The library was one more essential in the parade of rooms in a big 18th-century house - and part of the required kit ever afterwards. The important thing was to have the books, not actually read them.
Peter York
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I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!
Richard Pryor -
I've read the Bible. I think the Bible's a great book, but it's a novel. It's beautifully written and la-di-da, but people really took it the wrong way.
Winona Ryder -
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.
Terence McKenna -
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.
Erica Jong -
I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it.
Terry Bradshaw -
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.
Stephen Fry
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If you're looking for a book that will spike in sales and then go away and then spike again when it comes out in paperback, your normal model, I definitely won't give you that.
Simon Sinek -
If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.
Dolly Parton -
A book should push the reader to confront himself and the world.
Elena Ferrante -
The fact that people go to Portland to visit a tiny feminist bookstore-no matter what the impetus is for them getting there-the fact that they go in there and look around and shop for books or stationery or whatever, is a major source of pride for me.
Carrie Brownstein -
Don't settle. Don't finish crappy books. If you don't like the menu, leave the restaurant. If you're not on the right path, get off it.
Chris Brogan -
Not in this specific form. But all great cities are inhabited by ghosts. A book of this kind could probably be written about Jakarta, Manila, or London by anyone who had a feeling for the invisible truths of those places.
Teju Cole
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I'm as against restricting access to drugs as I am to burning books. It offends me in the same way.
Terence McKenna -
Almost before the big motor-car stopped, the girl sprang out.
Carolyn Wells -
Nietzsche said without music, life would be a mistake. To me, without books, life would be a mistake.
Ernest Gaines -
The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.
Jeff Bezos -
There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.
Ray Bradbury -
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
Simon Sinek
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Whoever would write books? It's suffering as well as greatly satisfying. And certainly there's suffering in the sense that you don't know for a long time how to do it.
Alice Mattison -
There is poetry in fiction. If you cannot see it and feel it when you write, you need to step back and examine what you are doing wrong. If you have not figured out how to write a simple declarative sentence and make it sing with that poetry, you are not yet ready to write an entire book.
Terry Brooks -
When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp.
Simon Sinek -
Beware of the person of one book.
Thomas Aquinas