Books Quotes
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Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.
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Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
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Would a writer know how to behave himself with relation td posterity? Let him consider in old books what he finds that he is glad to know, and what omissions he most laments.
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Home is where your books are.
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One of books is about the genocide in Rwanda and the other book is about a little boy who gets raped. Who needs monsters?
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I’ve always preferred autumn, the season of rededication, when one experiences that same thrill in the breast that one gets walking into a vast library with its smells of old pages and oiled banisters. All those books still to be read. All those centuries of knowledge. Feeling humbled within the context of all that intelligence—but at the same time, elevated. Made part of something larger.
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Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.
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Being poor is only romantic in books.
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Our masterpieces are Shakespeare and Jane Austen and griots and Murasaki Shikibu, but they’re also J.K. Rowling and Chuck Palahnuik and Douglas Adams and Amy Tan and Suzanne Collins and Chinua Achebe. Read. Read them all. Read the books you love, and try to read books you don’t. Read the genres you love, but sometimes also read a book outside your comfort zone. Read voraciously.
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I often feel like books find us for reasons, and we read them when we need them the most.
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In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
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I've always liked language and been a big reader. I always loved books as objects. My favorite time of year as a child was September when we'd go buy all kinds of notebooks and pens and markers for school. I think I wanted to be a writer just so I'd be able to fill up all those pages.
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Destroying a culture’s books is sentencing it to something worse than death: It is sentencing it to seem as if it never lived.
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But he who truly loves books loves all books alike, and not only this, but it grieves him that all other men do not share with him this noble passion. Verily, this is the most unselfish of loves!
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Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.
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The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
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Novelists can ask - they can ask for anything - but their books are their answers in advance.
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Yet the companions of the Muses will keep their collective nose in my books And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.
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Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.
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Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.
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Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
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While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.
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We musicians often get inspiration from films and books or photographs, not only by music.
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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
