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Sometimes, the greatest adventures can be found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Allison Chang
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The greatest adventures are often found within the pages of a book
Author:
Emily Young
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The best books are the ones that awaken a sense of curiosity within us, urging us to explore the mysteries of the world.
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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Sometimes the greatest adventures are those within the pages of a book.
Author:
Samantha Campbell
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The greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book, for it is there that dreams come to life.
Author:
Katherine White
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Life's greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Samantha Roberts
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Getting lost in a good book is finding yourself in another world.
Author:
Emily Parker
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Losing yourself in a good book is like taking a silent vacation amongst the chaos of life.
Author:
Samantha Jones
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Sometimes the greatest adventures are found in books, waiting to whisk you off to faraway lands.
Author:
Emma Roberts
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The greatest adventures are found in the pages of a book.
Author:
Rebecca Thompson
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You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Author:
Slavoj Zizek
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To read too many books is harmful.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
Author:
Ahmet Zappa
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There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books.
Author:
Terence Young
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All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning.
Author:
Marguerite Young
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
Author:
William Yeats
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
Author:
Brock Yates
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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
Author:
William Wycherley
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Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be, yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.
Author:
William Wycherley
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I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Author:
Steven Wright
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The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.
Author:
Richard Wright
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Author:
Frank Wright
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It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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Another hero was Tom Swift, in the books. What he stood for, the freedom, the scientific knowledge and being and engineer gave him the ability to invent solutions to problems. He's always been a hero to me. I buy old Tom Swift books now and read them to my own children.
Author:
Steve Wozniak
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Author:
John Wooden
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
Author:
Beatrice Wood
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I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since The Hobbit. I wish the books had been around when my kids were the right age for them.
Author:
Gene Wolfe
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I love books.
Author:
Reese Witherspoon
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.
Author:
Leon Winter
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A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.
Author:
Justin Winsor
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Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?
Author:
Henry Winkler
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Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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Books had instant replay long before televised sports.
Author:
Bern Williams
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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I think God destined that I play. I think it's all in the books already.
Author:
Michelle Wie
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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The real war will never get in the books.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.
Author:
Lisa Whelchel
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When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.
Author:
Lisa Whelchel
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Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks.
Author:
Samuel West
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I write books to find out about things.
Author:
Rebecca West
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Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.
Author:
Allen West
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It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass.
Author:
Eudora Welty
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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It's different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It's a cliche, but it's said that people who read my books don't read any other books, and you do get that element.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Author:
Carolyn Wells
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The revision of the books of Judges, Samuel, and Kings, undertaken towards the end of the Babylonian exile, a revision much more thorough than is commonly assumed, condemns as heretical the whole age of the Kings.
Author:
Julius Wellhausen
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In Endless Quest books, you start the plot, and the character has to make choices. Then you have to write one choice over here, one choice over there. The author might get one or two choices out.
Author:
Margaret Weis
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I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.
Author:
Len Wein
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Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
Author:
Naomi Watts
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I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
Author:
Emily Watson
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I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
Author:
Roger Waters
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
Author:
Mary Ward
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I think the kind of unexpected I really love is when you open books and the actual way of writing is different and interesting. Like reading Virginia Woolf for the first time or Lawrence Durrell for the first time.
Author:
Lalla Ward
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I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books.
Author:
Joseph Wambaugh
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The other thing is this industry has decided it only has one market. Unlike any other industry in the world, unlike film or books or sports even, this industry has decided it has only one market and that's 14 year old boys.
Author:
Rob Walton
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A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
Author:
Bill Walsh
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The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.
Author:
Rick Wakeman
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Author:
Voltaire
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Author:
Voltaire
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The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.
Author:
Voltaire
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Author:
Lope Vega
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I like the idea of making big budget films with a heart. I like graphic novels more than comic books.
Author:
Matthew Vaughn
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
Author:
Jack Vance
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
Author:
Jack Vance
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
Author:
Ville Valo
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Author:
Paul Valery
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
Author:
Andrew Vachss
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I don't take advances for my books.
Author:
Andrew Vachss
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I went to work in an office and learned, among other lessons, to do things I did not care for, and to do them well. Before I left this office, two of my books had already been published.
Author:
Sigrid Undset
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It's just different discipline, just doing the voice over. I guess I've done about 5 or 6 audio books in the past and I do the animated voice for a show called Fatherhood on Nickelodeon.
Author:
Blair Underwood
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Study how water flows in a valley stream, smoothly and freely between the rocks. Also learn from holy books and wise people. Everything - even mountains, rivers, plants and trees - should be your teacher.
Author:
Morihei Ueshiba
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Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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You know, it's about getting out there and having a good time. Not about worrying - all these young books for women are like I'm 29 with a closet full of Prada shoes and I can't get a date. Come on.
Author:
Aisha Tyler
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.
Author:
Scott Turow
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Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.
Author:
Gene Tunney
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Books are humanity in print.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.
Author:
Harry Truman
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I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
Author:
Bess Truman
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Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over.
Author:
Lionel Trilling
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Author:
Lily Tomlin
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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy.
Author:
Helen Thomas
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I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.
Author:
David Thewlis
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If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
Author:
William Thackeray
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I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
Author:
Studs Terkel
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
Author:
William Temple
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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Author:
William Temple
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I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music.
Author:
Mick Taylor
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My heart goes out to victims and survivors of the Hurricane Katrina tragedy and to their families. This disaster will go down in history books as one of the largest natural disasters in U.S. history.
Author:
Ellen Tauscher
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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
Author:
Donna Tartt
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I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.
Author:
Amy Tan
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You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books were my salvation. Books saved me from being miserable.
Author:
Amy Tan
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My books are about losers, about people who've lost their way and are engaged in a search.
Author:
Antonio Tabucchi
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I'm obsessed with books.
Author:
David Sylvian
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Books, the children of the brain.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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Most books, like their authors, are born to die; of only a few books can it be said that death has no dominion over them; they live, and their influence lives forever.
Author:
William Styron
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All I'm asking for is the law that's been on the books for the last 33 years, no public funding for abortion. We are both saying the same thing, pro-life, pro-choice. Let's find the language that works for both of us so we can pass health care.
Author:
Bart Stupak
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I have a private press. I'm a book artist. I publish books of other authors and artists. I do the illustrating. I set the type. I print it myself on my press. I do everything but bind it.
Author:
Gloria Stuart
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Doesn't anyone here think this sounds like a vision of hell? While we are all competing or dying, when will there be time for sex or music or books? Stop the world, I want to get off.
Author:
Howard Stringer
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These days, there are a great many books about childhood trauma and its effects, but at the time all the experts agreed that one should forget about it as quickly as possible and pick up where you left off.
Author:
Peter Straub
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Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.
Author:
David Strathairn
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If I'm home with no chore at hand, and a package of books has come, the television set and the chess board and the unanswered mail will have to manage without me if one of the books is a detective story.
Author:
Rex Stout
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I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!
Author:
R. Stine
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
Author:
R. Stine
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I don't read magazines much, and I have an awful time with books.
Author:
Payne Stewart
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There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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Blake has always been a favorite, the lyrics, not so much the prophetic books, but I suppose Yeats influenced me more as a young poet, and the American, Robert Frost.
Author:
Anne Stevenson
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The most accomplished way of using books is to serve them as some people do lords; learn their titles and then brag of their acquaintance.
Author:
Laurence Sterne
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When I decided to take writing seriously, I did a lot of reading and analyzing of the books I liked, and came up with what I thought were pretty sound plotting and structure basics.
Author:
George Stephen
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So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.
Author:
George Stephen
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A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.
Author:
George Stephen
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To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them.
Author:
William Steig
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We found nothing grand in the history of the Jews nor in the morals inculcated in the Pentateuch. I know of no other books that so fully teach the subjection and degradation of woman.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.
Author:
Bruce Springsteen
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I read all the time... I read a lot of history books.
Author:
Mickey Spillane
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I dont like any of them, because they don't read the books. In Kiss Me Deadly my story is better than his story. Anthony Quinn played in The Lond Wait and he didn't read the book either.
Author:
Mickey Spillane
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Oh yeah, I was one of the first guys writing comic books, I wrote Captain America, with guys like Stan Lee, who became famous later on with Marvel Comics.
Author:
Mickey Spillane
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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.
Author:
Anna Spencer
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Our mission, is to publish books on social and cultural issues, including books on law related to those areas. We are not looking for books on, say, tax policy, etc.
Author:
Thomas Spence
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There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Author:
Wole Soyinka
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I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
Author:
Peter Sotos
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And books that were published in much larger numbers than Selfish, Little are hard to find. And publishers who wanted to publish my last few works have them stuck in limbo while new distribution ideas and legal issues and fears are blown away.
Author:
Peter Sotos
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I don't publish the books to make money, not at all.
Author:
Peter Sotos
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Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
Author:
Peter Sotos
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
Author:
Susan Sontag
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There's a series of children's books called A Series of Unfortunate Events, which is like an incredibly dark version of Roald Dahl. I hope to start directing it.
Author:
Barry Sonnenfeld
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The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
Author:
Joseph Smith, Jr.
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I never thought I would just be doing Arkady books.
Author:
Martin Smith
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Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right.
Author:
Martin Smith
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
Author:
Logan Smith
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I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.
Author:
Delia Smith
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You know, he would go and look at different funny books because he wanted his character to be different and make different faces. I saw a funny book in his room and it looked like the same character he was playing. It was about a duck.
Author:
Bubba Smith
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Books are a finer world within the world.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
Author:
Christian Slater
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It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.
Author:
Christian Slater
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I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.
Author:
John Sladek
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We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading.
Author:
B. Skinner
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Probably I, like a lot of people, became a writer in imitation of or in homage to the books I enjoyed. When you're so captivated by something, you think, could I do that? Hmm, let me try.
Author:
Curtis Sittenfeld
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People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
Author:
Curtis Sittenfeld
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I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
Author:
Bill Sienkiewicz
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His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.
Author:
William Shenstone
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Author:
George Shaw
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If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
Author:
William Shatner
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I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
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Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Author:
Dr. Seuss
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At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.
Author:
Ernest Seton
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
Author:
Kate Seredy
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You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
Author:
Maurice Sendak
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In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
Author:
John Selden
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Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.
Author:
Anton Seidl
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Books are challenging and inspirational to me.
Author:
Amy Sedaris
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In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.
Author:
John Scott
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What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.
Author:
Paul Scofield
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
Author:
Arthur Schopenhauer
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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Christ himself wrote nothing, but furnished endless material for books and songs of gratitude and praise.
Author:
Philip Schaff
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I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
Author:
John Sayles
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I had no books at home. I started to frequent a public library in Lisbon. It was there, with no help except curiosity and the will to learn, that my taste for reading developed and was refined.
Author:
Jose Saramago
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I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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Kids just don't read any more. They spend much more time with video games. It's just hard to get kids to read anything. Book sales have dropped dramatically, too. I think 90% of the books are bought only by 5% of the US population.
Author:
Stan Sakai
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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
Author:
Francoise Sagan
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All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
Author:
Carl Sagan
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There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.
Author:
Joe Sacco
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I guess if one set of my books was selling like Stephen King's, and the other wasn't selling at all, editors would want me to do the ones that sold like Stephen King's. But they seem to be willing to let me pick what I want to do next.
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Fred Saberhagen
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The comments I most appreciate come from ordinary readers who've happened on one of my books at some time of stress in their lives, and who actually credit the book with helping them through a bad time. It's happened a few times in forty years.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible.
Author:
Mark Rylance
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My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.
Author:
Mathias Rust
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I have to have a character worth caring about. I tend not to start writing books about people I don't have a lot of sympathy for because I'm just going to be with them too long.
Author:
Richard Russo
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A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
Author:
Richard Russo
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My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
Author:
Richard Russo
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It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.
Author:
Richard Russo
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All books are divisible into two classes, the books of the hour, and the books of all time.
Author:
John Ruskin
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Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Author:
John Ruskin
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
Author:
John Ruskin
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Author:
Salman Rushdie
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All of my books now come from readers' ideas.
Author:
Ann Rule
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Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
Author:
Ann Rule
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I want to warn potential victims. Many of them are women, and many of them are battered women. It's a cause for me. When I look back, though, so many of the books I've written are about wives who just couldn't get away.
Author:
Ann Rule
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At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.
Author:
Rudy Rucker
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
Author:
Gavin Rossdale
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Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
Author:
Nicolas Roeg
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Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen.
Author:
Robert Rodriguez
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Make sure you meet the right people, people who know that industry and are willing to help you. Do your homework - read books about the industry, talk to people. If you don't know something, ask.
Author:
Anwar Robinson
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Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
Author:
Nora Roberts
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Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
Author:
Alexandra Ripley
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We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
Author:
Mordecai Richler
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I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books.
Author:
Ann Richards
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Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books.
Author:
Anne Rice
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Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.
Author:
Jodi Rell
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Our home had many books due principally to the educational interests of my sister and two brothers, all of whom where serious students engaged in professional studies; my sister became a doctor of medicine and my brothers became lawyers.
Author:
Frederick Reines
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Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books.
Author:
Simon Raven
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Author:
Ramakrishna
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Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.
Author:
Anna Quindlen
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If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.
Author:
Anna Quindlen
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We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence. Thou shalt not is soon forgotten, but Once upon a time lasts forever.
Author:
Philip Pullman
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
Author:
J. Priestley
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When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
Author:
Elvis Presley
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.
Author:
Lawrence Powell
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Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Author:
Lawrence Powell
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Books do furnish a room.
Author:
Anthony Powell
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
Author:
Gail Porter
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People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.
Author:
John Polkinghorne
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Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn).
Author:
John Podhoretz
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I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.
Author:
Bernard Pivot
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All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
Author:
Daniel Pinkwater
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
Author:
William Phelps
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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.
Author:
William Phelps
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Author:
Petrarch
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I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
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Thomas Perry
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I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Author:
Evita Peron
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There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.
Author:
Martin Perl
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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
Author:
Martin Perl
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People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.
Author:
Harvey Pekar
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I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.
Author:
Harvey Pekar
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For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.
Author:
James Patterson
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Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
Author:
Alan Paton
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Author:
Theodore Parker
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Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
Author:
Robert Parker
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In 1986 we were trying to help women get in print, stay in print, and come to the attention of booksellers and libraries. At that time, books by men mystery writers were reviewed seven times as often as books by women.
Author:
Sara Paretsky
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Most people don't have the money to spend on advertising to create awareness among readers, nor do they have the contacts at newspapers or magazines to get their books reviewed.
Author:
Sara Paretsky
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One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.
Author:
Abraham Pais
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To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written.
Author:
Rudolf Otto
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MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.
Author:
James Otis
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I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.
Author:
Patton Oswalt
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
Author:
William Osler
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To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Author:
William Osler
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Author:
William Osler
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Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews.
Author:
John Osborne
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
Author:
George Orwell
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A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.
Author:
Tim O'Reilly
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The last three books are much more a case of a moment of history, what happened almost by accident or coincidence, like being in the same elevator or lifeboat.
Author:
Michael Ondaatje
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My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
Author:
Mary Oliver
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Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
Author:
Sharon Olds
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The decision for me was whether to have "The Father" be a book that told a story - from the point of view of this speaker, the daughter - without, as in the earlier books, then having a section on something else and a section on something else.
Author:
Sharon Olds
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There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.
Author:
Sharon Olds
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I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
Author:
Gary Oldman
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Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.
Author:
Phillip Noyce
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I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.
Author:
Don Novello
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I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.
Author:
Don Novello
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Readers always seem to think that the author has some control over the design of their books.
Author:
Donald Norman
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Author:
Louis Nizer
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This time, there have been a lot of interesting discussion about the subject matter and I've had a good time talking about it. And in some of the cases, I'm not just signing books; I'm showing slides and talking about the work.
Author:
Leonard Nimoy
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My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.
Author:
Don Nickles
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If people are going to be cooking the books, you're in trouble.
Author:
Don Nickles
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In between that time, I've done book narrating, you know, books on tape for Dove Audio.
Author:
Juice Newton
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I spend a lot of time preparing. I think a lot about what I want to do. I have prep books, little notebooks in which I write everything down before a sitting. Otherwise I would forget my ideas.
Author:
Helmut Newton
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I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
Author:
Marc Newson
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Like any small business owner, I experienced the pressures of building a company from the ground up - developing a business plan, balancing the books, meeting payroll and building a customer base.
Author:
Gavin Newsom
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I first began to read religious books at school, and especially the Bible, when I was eleven years old; and almost immediately commenced a habit of secret prayer.
Author:
Francis Newman
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Author:
Pablo Neruda
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
Author:
V. Naipaul
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
Author:
V. Naipaul
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My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.
Author:
Mike Myers
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The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
Author:
Dave Mustaine
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I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.
Author:
Story Musgrave
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I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view, radically different from the last.
Author:
George Murray
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Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no big deal, or part of a natural progression from poetry to fiction, but often it's really just about the money, the perceived prestige.
Author:
George Murray
