Books Quotes
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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts of extracts become quotations.
Gary Saul Morson
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I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
V. S. Naipaul
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As children, in our own school of life, we soak up clues about our world just as eagerly as small squirrels. Exposure to children's books provides verbal and visual material to help us along the way. So subtle and varied can the lessons be that it may take years before we use everything we absorbed.
Anita Silvey
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
Nawal El Saadawi
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
Caprice Bourret
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
Carl Hiaasen
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Books are still my favorite present.
Karen Robards
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
Ville Valo HIM
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
Patrick Carman
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I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
Emma Walton Hamilton
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As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
Johnny Marr Pretenders
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My head was always in books.
Kate Bosworth
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
Salman Rushdie
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
Patricia Cornwell
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
Karl Pilkington
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
Barbara Park
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
P. L. Travers
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
R. L. Stine
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Books are humanity in print.
Barbara Tuchman
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Gavin Rossdale Bush
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I don't read a lot of books.
Usain Bolt
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I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
Yunus Emre