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Each book is a mind alive, a life revealed, a world awaiting exploration, but living people are all ...

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As we passed his table, I saw that the device that imprisoned the book was clever but wicked-looking...

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When I turned 35, I thought, 'Mozart was dead at 36, so I set the bar: I'm going to start writing a ...

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Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the ...

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It's commonplace to say that we 'love' a book, but when we say it, we mean all sorts of things. Some...

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I see every book as a problem that you have to solve. That is what dictates the form you use. It's n...

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I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know...

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Not only is it a wholly remarkable book, it is also a highly successful one – more popular than the ...

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Douglas AdamsThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebo...

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Don't be afraid to go to your library and read every book as long as any document does not offend yo...

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I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road...

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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really need...

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People who think that love, sex, marriage, work, play, life and death are serious matters are urged ...

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Edward AbbeyPostcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of comp...

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I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.

There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, s...

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Darling, I don't want you; I've got no place for you; I only want what you give. I don't want the wh...

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Oh, I just want what we all want: a comfortable couch, a nice beverage, a weekend of no distractions...

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You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an i...

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Ellen DeGeneresThe Funny Thing Is...

There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetr...

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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.

I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I trave...

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Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the...

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A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.

For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is be...

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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid...

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In this age of the electronic media and the mass distribution of the printed word, God will hold us ...

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The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American ar...

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So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

When 'Catch Me If You Can' was published back in 1980, I never dreamed that it would become a bestse...

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One half who graduate from college never read another book.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature ...

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It doesn't require much thought for one to realise that any travel book worthy of the name has to be...

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The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

Don't judge a book by its cover

I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what...

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I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a friend ...

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A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands

A book can be as dangerous as a sword in the right hands, said Haldon.

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George R. R. MartinA Dance with Dragons

A book has neither object nor subject; it is made of variously formed matters, and very different da...

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Gilles DeleuzeA Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia

I once wrote a book on courage and what made people courageous. I found it was a strength of belief ...

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I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library ...

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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest c...

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What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind...

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Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure i...

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I've been fortunate enough to write a book and travel the country to sign and sell it, so I can safe...

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If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails.

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.

I myself, as I’m writing, don’t know who did it. The readers and I are on the same ground. When I st...

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The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but ...

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Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can'...

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Haruki MurakamiKafka on the Shore

I love you," I said to her. "From the bottom of my heart. I don't ever want to let you go again. But...

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Everybody thinks I'm this delicate little girl.

He was a far more voracious reader than me, but he made it a rule to never touch a book by any autho...

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That's one of the things I hope that the book can do, is to restore some dignity to Joe Cinque.

How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book!

He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate t...

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Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democr...

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Sitting in the brightly lit library, surrounded by books, in total silence, that was ma personal zen...

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Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is o...

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Italo CalvinoIf on a Winter's Night a Traveler

I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every r...

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What I like best is a book that's at least funny once in a while. What really knocks me out is a boo...

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I've read this same sentence about twenty times since you came in."Anybody else except Ackley would'...

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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying t...

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Wherever I am, if I've got a book with me, I have a place I can go and be h

The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure.

I do believe something magical can happen when you read a good book

Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?""What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us.

Every time I got 'Amazing Spider-Man' or 'Fantastic Four' or another book firmly on the rails, we go...

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And I go home having lost her love. And write this book.

I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no...

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Being goal-oriented instead of self-oriented is crucial. I know so many people who want to be writer...

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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in reading a good novel, must be incredibl...

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With a book, he was regardless of time.

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Jane AustenPride and Prejudice

When I was 10 years old, I loved - I loved books, and I used to haunt the secondhand bookshop. And I...

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I did this book 'Harvest for Hope,' and I learned so much about food. And one thing I learned is tha...

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I've worked very hard in this book to keep the lines of communication open. I don't want to turn som...

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The approach to digital culture I abhor would indeed turn all the world's books into one book, just ...

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Jaron LanierYou Are Not a Gadget

I was going to buy a book on hair loss, but the pages kept falling out.

Couldn't I try...Naturally, it wouldn't be a question of a tune...But couldn't I in another medium?....

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While there may not be a book in every one of us, there is so often a damned good short story.

I couldn't be happier about being a part of 'Hunger Games' and to play Katniss. I have a huge respon...

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if you learn to hate one or two persons... you'll soon hate millions of people.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the ra...

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I read everything. I'll read a John Grisham novel, I'll sit and read a whole book of poems by Maya A...

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I've always had a love for poetry and when I got signed to a record label I thought, 'How odd that I...

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My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volum...

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There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with e...

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I went on a book tour immediately after 9/11. I was due to leave the following Wednesday, so I just ...

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Boxing is the only sport you can get your brain shook, your money took and your name in the undertak...

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Disaster was an avalanche, gathering speed with such acceleration that you worried more about gettin...

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Jodi PicoultThe Tenth Circle

In the houses of the humble a little library in my opinion is a most precious possession.

‎"Sarge, mr. Nurd here is threatening to turn me to jelly.""really?" said Sarge. "what flavor?

I'm not going to be one of those people who sits around talking about what they're gonna do. I'm jus...

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If people were rain i was drizzle and she was a hurrican.

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

Your party kicked so much ass!Even though you suck so much! It's like, instead of blood, your heart ...

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I walked to his bedside table next. Infinite Mayhem. the ninth sequel to The Prince of Dawn, lay ato...

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Maybe 'Okay' will be our 'always'...