Books Quotes
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I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.
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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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I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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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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Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.
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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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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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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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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
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What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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Can there be enough books to answer all your questions?
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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…I’d have died without them books. Even now I’m not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I’ve gotten from books.
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Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
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There are as many Africas as there are books about Africa.
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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What the future held for her she didn't know. Of two things only she was certain. There would be children-her own or other people's-and there would be books.
