Books Quotes
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In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded me for having an excess of feeling, saying that I was too sensitive - as if one could be in danger from feeling too much instead of too little. But my outsize emotions were well represented in books. There simmered all the feelings no one ever admits to.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
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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?"
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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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Don't make a whole to-do about it. Don't get down on yourself be- cause you're not an expert rower; don't start reading too many books in order to do it right.
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Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.
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For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance.
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I gauge success in years, not weeks. The weekend box-office approach to book launches is short sighted and encourages crappy books.
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Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.
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Basbanes makes you love books.
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You can love more than one person at a time, and I don't give a damn what the self-help books say.
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Nights without work I spend with whisky and books.
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Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.
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I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help you get money. But, let me caution you... when there is no spiritual growth... there is no spiritual strength... there is no lasting happiness... and, there is no real or lasting wealth.
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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?
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I'm an author. And writers write books. And writing books is a full-time career.
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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.
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If you think you can temper yourself into manliness by sitting here over your books, it is the very silliest fancy that ever tempted a young man to his ruin. You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one.
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Deep vers'd in books, and shallow in himself.
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I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books.
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Books allow you to be whoever you want to be, to escape yourself for a while.
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My parents both work in publishing, and I was a bright, academic kind of kid, and I read a lot of books, and when you read a lot, I guess the muscle that gets exercised is where you can hear the voices in your head. You can turn words into pictures and into sounds and into colours and smells.
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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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Books do actually consume air and exhale perfumes.
