Books Quotes
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Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude.
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I think it's so important for all of us to be able to see ourselves represented in the books we read and the movies and TV shows we watch.
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I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.
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Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it. and the love of knowledge, in a young mind, is almost a warrant against the inferior excitement of passions and vices.
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Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.
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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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Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
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... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.
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You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
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Books were at the very heart of the Christian religion—unlike other religions of the empire—from the very beginning. Books recounted the stories of Jesus and his apostles that Christians told and retold; books provided Christians with instruction in what to believe and how to live their lives; books bound together geographically separated communities into one universal church; books supported Christians in their times of persecution and gave them models of faithfulness to emulate in the face of torture and death; books provided not just good advice but correct doctrine, warning against the false teachings of others and urging the acceptance of orthodox beliefs; books allowed Christians to know the true meaning of other writings, giving guidance in what to think, how to worship, how to behave. Books were completely central to the life of the early Christians.
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I just thought it was so fitting, because my husband was an editor and loved books and because his father's weaponry collection is there as well.
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I have always made films simultaneously, so they go hand in hand. I think that my books are like films.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.
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On the advice of my U.K. publishers, I chose a sexless anonymity and published my first five books under the semi-pseudonym, S. J. Bolton. I was happy. I could hide behind a genderless, classless persona and let my creepy, psychological murder-mysteries speak for themselves.
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“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”
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Whatever we put out, it's coming back to us. The universe keeps a perfect set of books.
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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
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If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the best sort of gramophone and meringues for supper.
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Books crowbar the world open for you.
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I knew I loved writing, and I was raised by people who love books.
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Books -lighthouses erected in the great sea of time -books, the precious depositories of the thoughts and creations of genius -books, by whose sorcery times past become time present, and the whole pageantry of the world's history moves in solemn procession before our eyes, -these were to visit the firesides of the humble and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.
