Books Quotes
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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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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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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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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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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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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I wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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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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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've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.
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What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the punctuation settled to the bottom as a residue. It would be confusing. Unforgivable. A great adventure.
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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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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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Most of the titles are quotes from books or movies.
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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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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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I don't like books that seem to want to teach me things. Which is not to say that one doesn't learn from books – but you do your own learning in your own way.
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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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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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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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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
