Books Quotes
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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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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.
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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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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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Attention spans are changing. It's very noticeable. I am very aware that the kind of books I read in my childhood kids now won't be able to read. I was reading Kipling and PG Wodehouse and Shakespeare at the age of 11. The kind of description and detail I read I would not put in my books. I don't know how much you can fight that because you want children to read. So I pack in excitement and plot and illustrations and have a cliffhanger every chapter. Charles Dickens was doing cliffhangers way back when. But even with all the excitement you have to make children care about the characters.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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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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Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.
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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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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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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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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
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I read a lot of books. I read because it inspires me and shows me paths that I could never imagine. Sometimes those paths are horrible and sad, and sometimes they are hopeful and amazing. Not always are they paths to the future, and sometimes the paths are actually about the past but make sense when applied to the future. Books are amazing.
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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
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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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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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... 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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An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word, he should be fit for the best society, and should keef out of it.
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All the things I've read in my school books about England and the Queen were okay, but my eyes are the greatest book in the world.
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What a blessing it is to love books.
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The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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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.
