Books Quotes
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What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
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Oh Senor" said the niece. "Your grace should send them to be burned books, just like all the rest, because it's very likely that my dear uncle, having been cured of the chivalric disease, will read these and want to become a shepherd and wander through the woods and meadows singing and playing and, what would be even worse, become a poet, and that, they say, is an incurable and contagious disease.
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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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My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.
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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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But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
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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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Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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No one knows why books do well.
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My books are so tame!
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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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My regular life today is reading books, making dolls houses, sewing dolls with my daughter and barbequing.
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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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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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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 will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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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 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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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.
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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
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Every person who reads your book will be far more likely to be on your side. Books are the most intensive of all current media. People are willing to spend hours and hours with a book.
