Book Quotes
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One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons.
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The only other thing which I think is important is: Don't write a book or start a book with the expectation of communicating a message in a very important way.
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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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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.
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..holding a book but reading the empty spaces.
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My first published book, Story of a Girl, was the fourth book I wrote.
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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
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There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.
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Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.
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There is the myth that writing books for children is easier than writing books for grownups, whereas we know that truly great books for children are works of genius, whether it's 'Alice in Wonderland' or the 'Gruffalo' or 'Northern Lights.' When it's a great book, it's a great book, whether it's for children or not.
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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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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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One of the things I enjoy most is to be left alone with a book.
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I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'
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To whom do I give my new elegant little book? Cui dono lepidum novum libellum?
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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.
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I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
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Researching books gets you into nothing but trouble.
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She accepted it from then on. Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
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This is what an artist is, she thought. This is the temperament you need to spend a whole day tinkering with a sentence, making sure that both the meaning and the music are right; to spend three or seven or ten years working on a book.
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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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Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of creativity and its sources. Imagine is his best book yet.
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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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As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her.
