Books Quotes
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What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
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I have a lot of men who will say to me, 'I don't read books by women, but I like you.'
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
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Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?
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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.
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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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I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
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If I see Marian Keyes' books or Patricia Scanlan's books given more prominence than mine in the bookstore, I'll move mine to the front. I've told them I do this, and they've confessed to doing the same thing to me.
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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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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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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.
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I am not a fan of books.
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A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition.
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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.
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Read books. They are good for us.
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I collect books - a lot of books.
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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 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.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I hope never to retire. I write so many because it's the thing I like to do most - to write. And if you write every day, you just naturally get a lot of books.
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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
