Books Quotes
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I don't read newspapers, and I've said I don't watch the news. I love books, but I don't read much. What I do is I get people to read to me, and I put the stories in my head.
Kate Bush -
If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
Malcolm Gladwell
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I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic in fiction.
Zadie Smith -
I think of my books now as suspense novels, usually with a love story incorporated. They're absolutely a lot harder to write than romances. They take more plotting and real character development.
Sandra Brown -
I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
Beverly Cleary -
My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.
Joy Fielding -
Read a thousand books, and your words will flow like a river.
Lisa See -
Read books. They are good for us.
Natalie Goldberg
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To learn anything other than the stuff you find in books, you need to be able to experiment, to make mistakes, to accept feedback, and to try again. It doesn't matter whether you are learning to ride a bike or starting a new career, the cycle of experiment, feedback, and new experiment is always there.
Charles Handy -
As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
Karin Slaughter -
There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Irwin Redlener -
I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston -
One of my books, 'Rain Falling on My Face,' earned me the 39th Edogawa Ranpo prize. It's a very prestigious literary prize in Japan, mostly for mysteries and thrillers.
Natsuo Kirino
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A collection of books is the best of all universities.
Thomas Carlyle -
All my books are optimistic!
Malcolm Gladwell -
My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
Malcolm Gladwell -
'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
L.A. Weatherly -
Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!
Dani Shapiro -
Comic books are a big passion of mine.
Taran Killam
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
Fay Godwin -
A charger's saddle is an exalted throne, the best companions are books alone.
Al-Mutanabbi -
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
Oscar Wilde -
My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.'
Orlando Bloom