Books Quotes
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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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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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Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.
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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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I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
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Read books. They are good for us.
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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 regret all of 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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On a practical level, poetry isn't something anybody has really made a great living at. I might sell some books and, once in a while, someone might pay to hear me read.
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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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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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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I collect books - a lot of books.
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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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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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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 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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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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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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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 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.
