Book Quotes
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. . . I wrote a letter to Thomas Pynchon asking, Can I have your permission to try to make an adaptation of your book? And I had no idea that he would answer me, because he's pretty elusive. But he did send a letter back that said, Yes, you can do that - as long as the only instrument in the opera is a banjo. I thought, That's an interesting way of saying No.
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The problem with life is, by the time you can read women like a book, your library card has expired.
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If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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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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This book is written for those who want more Jesus. It is for those who are bored with what American Christianity offers. It is for those who don't want to plateau, those who would rather die before their convictions do.
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Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story.
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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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The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
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The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.
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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.
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.
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I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
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There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
