Books Quotes
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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.
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In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
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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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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.
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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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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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I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
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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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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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Reading creates a sense of human fellowship. It is never (or rarely) a public activity, but in putting us in direct contact with other minds and sensibilities, it is a form of solitude which banishes loneliness. It can offer the consolation of knowing we are not alone, in our pleasures or in our suffering. It is in situations of deprivation that the value of reading – the deep need for books – becomes more vividly apparent.
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I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.
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Chinese readers are buying books in translation, particularly non-fiction about China, in large numbers.
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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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I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
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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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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 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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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of 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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I read a few books but I never really took any lessons. I just listened to records and played along. Initally it's not that easy, but if you do it enough, you find you can actually play things quite easily.
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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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Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that I love, other people hate. You can't please everybody.
