Books Quotes
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I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
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Arthur Koestler wrote some other very interesting books, but that book - I mean, if I were teaching, I don't care what the course is, I would say you really have to read "Darkness at Noon".
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Books, books, books. It was not that I read so much. I read and re-read the same ones. But all of them were necessary to me. Their presence, their smell, the letters of their titles, and the texture of their leather bindings.
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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
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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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My books are so tame!
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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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Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
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In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.
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I like to write books and cause trouble.
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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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If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.
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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 books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.
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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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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.
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The books we are required to teach frequently have nothing to do with anything except the fact that they have always been taught, or that there is an oversupply of them, or that some committee or other was asked to come up with some titles.
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Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.
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It seems obvious to me that the more queer books there are in the wolrd, the more queer kids we reach with the message that they are not alone, the fewer LGBT kids become one of these grim statistics.
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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 never expected my books to do even as well as they have. I still feel grateful for it, every single day.
