Books Quotes
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
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I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
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While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons.
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But stamped on her face was also regret that she had been wrong in her assessment. In those weeks she felt humiliated at having always ascribed a power to things that in the current hierarchies were insignificant: the alphabet, writing, books. Only then—I think today—did she, who seemed so disillusioned, so adult, come to the end of her childhood.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
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I know all the books of the Bible.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
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Books come at my call and return when I desire them; they are never out of humor and they answer all my questions with readiness. Some present in review before me the events of past ages; others reveal to me the secrets of Nature. These teach me how to live, and those how to die; these dispel my melancholy by their mirth, and amuse me by their sallies of wit. Some there are who prepare my soul to suffer everything, to desire nothing, and to become thoroughly acquainted with itself. In a word, they open the door to all the arts and sciences.
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Burn old wood, read old books, drink old wines, have old friends.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for today’s dollars, especially when it’s obvious that the source in question doesn’t have any more dollars to give you.
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I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
