Books Quotes
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He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.
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I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
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The Harlem of my books was never meant to be real; I never called it real; I just wanted to take it away from the white man if only in my books.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
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As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
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I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends.
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I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
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Most of the titles are quotes from books or movies.
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The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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No one reads my books until they're finished because I don't want feedback. It confuses me, and it changes things; if I get too much feedback, I get thrown off my path.
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On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
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There aren't too many people out there who can start one of my books and not finish it. I don't think too many writers can say that.
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me.
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
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I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
