Book Quotes
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I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.
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With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.
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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
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What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections to which they have given rise.
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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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Ive written a book on gangs, taught a course on gangs at Occidental.
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Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity.
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When Bernard Leach wrote his book, he wrote about the fact that even when pots are made in a series, there is a personality to each pot and that the person who made it reflects their personality into the clay.
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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.
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Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over.
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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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I went through every phone book in Africa, and I didn't find one god damned Pryor!
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Great books don't make great movies. There's too much information in there.
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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 just think, as writers, especially with a book that takes years to write, you sort of wake up every morning hoping and praying that you can make it work for the day.
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Better is a book than a well built house.
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Beware of the person of one book.
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A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!
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My process is surprisingly straightforward. I find myself with little to do over a stretch of time and I say, "I should write children's books today." Then I sit down and write a children's book, and if it takes more than, realistically, three hours, I feel like I've done something wrong.
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Do you ever read any of the books you burn?" He laughed. "That's against the law!" "Oh. Of course.
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If you're going to undertake any project, like a book, you have to show up to give.
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
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If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'
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My first book was the book that changed my life.
