Books Quotes
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“If you’re like most of our readers, you’re probably wondering where we get all the ideas for our books from. Well, sometimes we think them up. Other times they are based on stuff that actually happens. Like this book, for instance. It all started one morning when I got up and went down to get some breakfast.
Andy Griffiths
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It is not, in fact, cookery books that we need half so much as cooks really trained to a knowledge of their duties.
Eliza Acton
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Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.
Marcel Proust
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Before Five Kingdoms is complete, I will begin work on the sequel series to my Fablehaven books. It will be called Dragonwatch. I’m excited to share more stories about the characters of Fablehaven including Kendra, Seth, Newel, Doren, Warren, Bracken, Vanessa, Raxtus, etc. If you’re liking Five Kingdoms but haven’t tried Fablehaven, you should get to know those people! If you’d like to connect.
Brandon Mull
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Books crowbar the world open for you.
Katherine Rundell
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I should tell you that many people think that authors just cut and paste from real life into books. It doesn't work quite that way.
Paul Fleischman
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Books and bullets have their own destinies.
Ernst Junger
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Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?
J. R. R. Tolkien
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books, or write opinion pieces about what they think of Neil Young, or why they quit watching ER or whatever. And because of that, I think there's a lot of people who write about my books with the premise of, "Why this guy? Why not me?"
Chuck Klosterman
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I use no figure of speech when I say that we may now buy our books in bulk. I saw, only this morning, the advertisement of a large dry goods “emporium” (’tis laces and literature now) wherein is announced for sale the bound volumes of a popular magazine. “Over eight pounds of the choicest reading, bound in the usual style—olive green.
Adeline Knapp
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When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.
Marianne Williamson
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This is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.
Walt Whitman
