Books Quotes
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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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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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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
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Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
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Books will speak plain when counselors blanch.
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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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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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Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights.
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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 wouldn't like to be a character in one of my books!
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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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Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
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I don't read books. I read 'On the Road' in high school, and that was awesome, so I guess that's my favorite book. 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' even though I didn't read it, that's the greatest story. SparkNotes came in when I was in high school, and that was the greatest invention.
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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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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 are the quietest and most constant of friends.
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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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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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After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain.
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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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... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
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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.
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I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.
