Books Quotes
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The wise are above books.
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I invite you, wholeheartedly, to read books that remind you of your highest self and emancipate you from mental slavery or false beliefs and illusions. The more you invest in attracting books that resonate with the frequency of your true self, the more light you will bring to the world.
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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.
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When somebody says that six million people died in the Holocaust, there is nobody in the world who can understand that. It's only through story, reading books by Elie Wiesel or Primo Levi, that you really begin to understand the trauma and how horrible it actually was.
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I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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Actually, the books were never a planned career path.
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I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true.
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Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
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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.
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There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
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I regret all of my books.
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Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.
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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.
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There are no makeovers in my books. The ugly duckling does not become a beautiful swan. She becomes a confident duck able to take charge of her own life and problems.
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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.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five.
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I do have some books, but in all the distance flights I've made I've never opened the books. I've been too busy.
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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!
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There's Beatles books and T-shirts and rings, and one thing and another. To buy my daughter all these things, I had to sell her brother.
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Even as a kid, my memories are of books taking me out of myself.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
