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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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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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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My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
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Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books.
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The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
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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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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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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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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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Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
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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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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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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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There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.
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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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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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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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What a blessing it is to love books.
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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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No one knows why books do well.
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I'm going to go do this crazy thing. I'm going to start this company selling books online.
