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Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people.
They go in [to the library] not because they need any certain volume but because they feel that there may be some book that needs them.
You know you knit too much when ... You will check out a book from the library just because you heard that one of the characters knits.
Madame Bovary is the sexiest book imaginable. The woman's virtually a nyphomaniac but you won't find a vulgar word in the entire thing.
The popular scientific books by our scientists aren't the outcome of hard work, but are written when they are resting on their laurels.
To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material.
Books are many things: lullabies for the weary, ointment for the wounded, armour for the fearful and nests for those in need of a home.
Books are the most mannerly of companions, accessible at all times, in all moods, frankly declaring the author's mind, without offense.
Each book, intuitively sensed and, in the case of fiction, intuitively worked out, stands on what has gone before, and grows out of it.
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.
When I am playing, I try to keep the genre very easy-going and breezy. I can't be into the book and not be into the profession I am in.
For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation.
I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.
We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
A comprehensive marketing plan involves both online and offline efforts to use and broaden your existing platform to promote your book.
I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought evidently unfinished.
And they will ask thee of the spirit. Say: The spirit proceedeth at my Lord's command; but of knowledge, only a little is given to you.
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.
Marking a book is literally an experience of your differences or agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you can pay him.
Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. It is wholesome and bracing for the mind to have its faculties kept of the stretch.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
There is no law in the world - there is no law unwritten, there's no law on the books - that's gonna stop a criminal from getting a gun.
I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
I grew up in Florida, and I wanted to go home and I couldn't. I didn't have the money. The book [The Tiger Rising] was a way to go home.
I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept
Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated - it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness.
There's a pianist out of Boston who made a beautiful record for the Fresh Sound label called "Sketch Book"; his name is Vardan Ovsepian.
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.
They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged so widely.
If you are a conscious human being who has opinions about the world, then you will unconsciously put your own perspective into the book.
The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.
Many college text-books, which were a weariness and stumbling-block when I studied, I have since read a little with pleasure and profit.
Every time one of my books sells a million copies in paperback, Pan Macmillan gives me a gold statuette of Pan. I have about 20 of them.
When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no I try talking to someone else.
If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it, you're probably a bad actor.
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the '80s it was pretty excellent.
The fact that the biblical book Hebrews is not an epistle of St Paul, or of any other apostle, is proved by what it says in chapter two.
The trouble with censorship is that once it starts it is hard to stop. Just about every book contains something that someone objects to.
Crises have a way of thrusting into the limelight hitherto obscure persons, and giving them, for a long or short period, a leading role.
You know, I feel like my job is to write a book. Then filmmakers come and they make a movie. And they're two really different art forms.
For a dyed-in-the-wool author nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. ... She is rather like a cat whose kittens have grown up.
[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history.
If your life were a book and you were the author, how would you want your story to go? That's the question that changed my life forever.
You know what I love about Haruki Murakami's books? He's so easy to read. You get three pages in and you have to finish the whole thing.
It seems the only way to write a half decent book is to worry oneself sick on an hourly basis that one is producing a complete disaster.
You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people he associates with.
There's no one thing you can do to have success, but if you have a plan and you keep doing things, you'll eventually build to a success.
Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.