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The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.
For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead...We're nothing more than dust jackets for books...so many pages to a person.
I read books when I have time. I probably spend a third of the time watching TV, and the rest of it is reading, but I read.
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in a book for children.
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective.
I do the same things I did when I was 12 years old: I ride bikes, I read books, I walk in the woods. And I listen to music.
There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems.
The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!
Footnotes are the finer-suckered surfaces that allow testicular paragraphs to hold fast to the wider reality of the library.
Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to end.
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.
Who built the seven gates of Thebes? In the books are listed the names of kings. Did the kings heave up the building blocks?
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good; careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.
Tod Goldberg has long been one of the most interesting writers around, and Gangsterland is his biggest and best book so far.
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.
This evening, I sat by an open window and read till the light was gone and the book was no more than a part of the darkness.
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.
As a child, my whole life was books. They were my fantasy. That's where I could go. That was a lot of times [what] saved me.
Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that.
The unexpressed aim of every politician is to influence events that history books will record his name - and spell it right.
My writing has to support more than my research habit, but I love to curl up with a book about some dusty corner of history.
I just focus on getting the first scene right, with a few lines about the overall plot, and then the book grows organically.
Wearing a giant, over-sized scarf will make you look deeply intelligent in almost any situation, but especially a book club.
We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.
God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.
Breezy, sophisticated, hilarious, rude and aching with sweetness: LOVE, NINA might be the most charming book I've ever read.
It's funny - my wife is more jealous of my books than of other women because I'm always working and thinking about my books.
Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book.
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.
I was in the beginning when [comic book superheroes] started, but not anymore. Now I expect it. I've gotten very used to it.
A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You should live several lives while reading it.
Criticism is part of being in the marketplace. If you can't take a bit of criticism, you shouldn't bother publishing a book.
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
I write very quickly; I rewrite very slowly. It takes me nearly as long to rewrite a book as it does to get the first draft.
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
Reading good books implants good ideas in the mind, develops good aspirations, and leads to the cultivation of good friends.
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.
The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
I travel because I want to know. Books and documentaries will only get you so far. If you want to know, you will have to go.
Not anymore. I'm afraid I've degenerated into a bibliophile." "A what?" asked Eragon. "One who loves books," explained Jeod.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
There's a great book about that, "The Breaking Point" by Stephen Koch . It won't improve your opinion of [Ernest] Hemingway.
Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.