Books Quotes
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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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Books are written so their authors can be heard, not so that they remain silent.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented 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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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
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With books we stand on the shoulders of giants.
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Master books, but do not let them master you.
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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 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.
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The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error.
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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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Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.
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When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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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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“Books are precious things and cannot be selected like tinned peas in Tesco.”
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... I find myself coming out of the library with all women writers. I keep hoping the library attendant won't notice, but when 8 out of 8 of the books you take out are by women, you try not to look too dykey.
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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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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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The search for the Torah codes is rooted in the unfathomable theological premise that the Torah - itself a set of five books of limited length - contains literally all truth.
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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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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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Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.
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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
