Books Quotes
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.
Ingmar Bergman
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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde
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The wise are above books.
Samuel Daniel
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If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!
Malcolm Gladwell
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Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
S. E. Hinton
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
Karen Robards
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
Paloma Faith
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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.
Eve Bunting
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I regret all of my books.
Zora Neale Hurston
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The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
Nick Cave The Birthday Party
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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
Gary Shteyngart
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There was a day on the set of Iron Man where I said, "I remember some of this stuff. I definitely had some Iron Man books. But, S.H.I.E.L.D. is a little bit of a weak spot for me."
Clark Gregg
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I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.
Brian Andreas
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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.
Viggo Mortensen
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A lot of my favourite books - I should say, not much happens in the books! It's much more about the points of view of the author more than anything else.
Patrick deWitt
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A charger's saddle is an exalted throne, the best companions are books alone.
Al-Mutanabbi
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
Oriana Fallaci
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... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are also expressing the way their age looks at the world, the state of their society.
Nan Fairbrother
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God has, in fact, written two books, not just one. Of course, we are all familiar with the first book he wrote, namely Scripture. But he has written a second book called creation.
Francis Bacon
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
Oscar Wilde
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With the SEO value of Gawker, I could sell anything, including 'Gorilla Mindset' books. I would self-monetize. The way Alex Jones does it.
Mike Cernovich