Books Quotes
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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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With traditional publishing, books might be pulled due to plagiarism or libel - but rarely for content, and especially not without a widespread outcry.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need right now. I think a lot of people go out and buy books because they love to read. They read it really fast and then move on to the next book. I don't do that.
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When I look for new books, I often struggle to find things that challenge and entertain me. This has caused me to spend a number of cycles thinking about where I can get the serendipitous book discovery experience that we had in physical book stores.
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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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Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems, You shall possess the good of the earth and sun.... there are millions of suns left, You shall no longer take things at second or third hand.... nor look through the eyes of the dead.... nor feed on the spectres in books, You shall not look through my eyes either, nor take things from me, You shall listen to all sides and filter them from yourself.
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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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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.
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I never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
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There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.
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In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.
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Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.
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I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
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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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She liked to sit on the front porch in the afternoons and read books she'd checked out from the library. Aside from coffee, reading was her only indulgence.
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Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.
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Home is where your books are.
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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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Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold.
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I have my books and my poetry to protect me.
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I like to write books and cause trouble.
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Some books are a revelation. They come along at just the right time for just the right reasons. They become heart books and soul books.
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
