Book Quotes
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Any book, which is at all important, should be reread immediately.
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Happiness is not something that happens to people but something that they make happen.” His research shows that people are happiest in a state he has named “flow.” In a state of flow, you are one with what you are doing. Children know flow well. They call it play. Play is one of the childhood roots of adult happiness. But there are others—four others, to be exact—in the schema I outline in this book.
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There's a great book about John Kennedy and his relationship to civil rights called 'The Bystander.' The title alone suggests that he did as little as possible, any minimal critical effort, to really facilitate civil rights in the White House.
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Beware of a man of one book.
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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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Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.
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Books that kids read should be about what is going on in the world.
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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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My life has been an open book, really. Everybody knows everything about me.
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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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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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The only reason to buy a paper book any longer is to own it and cherish it and remember it and tell a story about it.
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Often it's the latest novel that I've written that is my favourite. I'd been dreaming it for so long, living and breathing its story so that when it finally arrives as a newly published book, smelling wonderful and fresh out of the box, there is nothing like it.
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If you're going to have a book published in China, that means that you're going to be subject to in-house censorship at the publisher, and then also, of course, the government has an apparatus that is in charge of making sure that ideas that are considered disruptive or overly critical, that those don't get onto bookstore shelves.
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Maybe other writers have perfect first drafts, but I am not one of them. I always try to get the book as tight as I can, but you reach a point as the author where you have lost all perspective.
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Day, after day, after glorious day, I was falling in love with books.
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You take a book, and what can you do with a book? Can you cook an egg on a book? No. Can you dig a hole? No. Is it a good weapon? No. The fact that it's good for nothing kind of makes it almost all-important.
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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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Listen you have to read a book three times before you know it.
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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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We can all learn from every text. Reading the work that disgusts you can only strengthen your core beliefs. I could teach a semester-long course based only on reading the local telephone book. All stories can be taught in valuable ways.
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I have written 13 books, full of my ideas about a variety of issues - from black women, to hip-hop culture, to the civil rights struggle. Even when I address such figures as Tupac Shakur and Bill Cosby, my ideas are quite evident.
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There's no book that absolutely everyone loves.
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Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.
