Books Quotes
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Being poor is only romantic in books.
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I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.
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I believe in books.
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer.
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The love of books is among the choicest gifts of the gods.
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The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
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I think it’s the books that you read when you’re young that live with you forever.
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Books and marriage go ill together.
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Some things definitely work better on film than in books. Introspection is great in books but it doesn't work on film. Anything with high intensity, whether it's a love scene, a car chase, a fight scene - those things work so well on film and oftentimes they can tell a much broader part of the story.
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But the book! The siren song of the book!
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I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
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I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books.
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What do women want?" Sigmund Freud cried. Books and cats are a good start.
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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.
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Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone.
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The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah - itself a set of five books of limited length - contains literally all truth.
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The abundance of books is distraction
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Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
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Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
