Book Quotes
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The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.
Joanne Rowling
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The books that stuck with me most as a child were 'A Wrinkle In Time', 'Dracula', 'Hatchet', 'Bunnicula', 'White Fang', and this YA/kids' book called 'Nobody's Fault' where a kid drowns one weekend as friends play around a flooded ditch.
Nate Powell
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I have not been in a book club where there were any men, and I have not, in fact, heard of book groups that were mixed.
Elizabeth Berg
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No amount of money today could possibly give me the thrill that first $400 check gave me. My first story was entitled, 'Dejah Thoris, Princess of Mars.' Metcalf changed it to 'Under the Moons of Mars.' It was later published in book form as A Princess of Mars.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
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As for what I listen to after writing, it could be anything - but I've noticed that if the current book contains music from one tradition, it is music from another tradition that most relaxes me.
Vikram Seth
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I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter.
Pablo Neruda
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When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.
Jay Asher
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To sum it all up, if you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must write dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next.
Ray Bradbury
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However often we turn to it the Qur'an at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence... Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Which is - you know, like check it out, I'm pretty young, I'm only about 40 years old. I still have maybe another four decades of work left in me. And it's exceedingly likely that anything I write from this point forward is going to be judged by the world as the work that came after the freakish success of my last book, right?
Elizabeth Gilbert
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Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
Johann Georg Hamann
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Every book that you pick up takes you a step away from your real world, but if you read a book about magic, it takes you an extra two steps.
Jenny Nimmo
