Books Quotes
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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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I grew up in Greeley, Colorado, in a house without a television set. I was a very nerdy kid: I used to play 'astronaut' and eat bouillon as astronaut food. We also had tons of books.
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The best teacher is not life, but the crystallized and distilled experience of the most sensitive, reflective, and most observant of our human beings, and this experience you will find preserved in our great books and nowhere else.
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You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.”
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The books we call the New Testament were not gathered together into one canon and considered scripture, finally and ultimately, until hundreds of years after the books themselves had first been produced.
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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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Before Five Kingdoms is complete, I will begin work on the sequel series to my Fablehaven books. It will be called Dragonwatch. I’m excited to share more stories about the characters of Fablehaven including Kendra, Seth, Newel, Doren, Warren, Bracken, Vanessa, Raxtus, etc. If you’re liking Five Kingdoms but haven’t tried Fablehaven, you should get to know those people! If you’d like to connect.
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I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
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I didn't have much to say to anybody but kept to myself and my books. With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw it's fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.
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I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
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That my cult of study had always seemed to her foolish, that it wasn’t books that made people good but good people who made some good books.
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The world of books: romantic, idle, shiftless world so beautiful, so cheap compared with living.
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I’ve been told on more than one occasion that I should stop reading so much and actually have a life, but do you know what I’ve figured out? People in books are much more interesting than the people who’ve told me that.
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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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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
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That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on and trying to make good to dwell on characters from previous books.
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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've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
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What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.
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When I open them, most of the books have the smell of an earlier time leaking out between the pages - a special odor of the knowledge and emotions that for ages have been calmly resting between the covers. Breathing it in, I glance through a few pages before returning each book to its shelf.
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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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Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
