Books Quotes
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I have published so many books in so many years. I can't complain about any lack of attention. But I've never been placed as a Southern writer, which I really am. So I was happy finally to be published by someone in the South.
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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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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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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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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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The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
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Table salt hardens here. Books mildew. Diaries flip open. Private Property: Please Turn Around.
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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For a thorough understanding of rowing, for the what, the how and the why, the books making up Peter Mallory’s The Sport of Rowing certainly do it all.
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The dearest ones of time, the strongest friends of the soul--BOOKS.
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I think of an intellectual as just being bookish, being interested in history books, utopian ideas, that kind of thing.
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As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times what saved me.
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The Henty books provide training in history and in many of the highest aspects of human character... American young people should read not a few Henty books, but all 99 of them.
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The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.
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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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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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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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The people she admired in his books were people who walked away from the lives that other people expected them to live—Ellen in his first novel, the bohemian painters in his second.
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I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done.
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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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Books may sleep for a while and be neglected; but whenever the desire of information springs up in the human breast, there they are with mild wisdom ready to instruct and please us.
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They are likely to have less educated parents who own fewer books and talk to them less from the time they are infants—a gap that’s been estimated at 30 million words by the time they start kindergarten.
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I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.
