Books Quotes
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.
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I know that there is not in the world a more subtle poison than that which is extracted from and administered by books.
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People who hate me call me a Twitter troll, which is laughable given my extensive body of work, which you can find on Amazon in the form of books like 'Gorilla Mindset' and my documentary on free speech, 'Silenced.'
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
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I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
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I don't read a lot of inspirational books for life. But for writing, I think the two best books are The War of Art and William Zinsser's On Writing Well. I read a lot of classics.
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No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else.
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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries...
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Books are the true metempsychosis,--they are the symbol and presage of immortality. The dead men are scattered, and none shall find them. Behold they are here! they do but sleep.
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At age eleven, I became a member of the circulating library of my home town. From there on I was rarely seen outside but was reading two to four books per week, the subjects ranging from archaeology over ethnology and geography to zoology. Needless to say that I did not do much homework.
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Books are the ultimate way for writers to reach immortality.
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The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.
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I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.
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We clung to books and to our friends; they reminded us that we had another part to us.
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It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did.
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Books" - Snell smiled - "are a kind of magic.
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A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls.
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I'd be like, alright, I don't know anything about sales. So I would search for sales on Amazon, get the three top-rated books and just go at it. I did that for marketing, finance, product, engineering. If there was one thing that was really important for me, that was it.
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I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.
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Bad books always lie. They lie most of all about the human condition.
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Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.
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Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something.
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I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman.
