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The real power of books is their deep companionability. We learn from them as we learn from the deep companionability of love to know our own hearts and minds better.
Jane Rule
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Writer
Book
Heart
Real
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To Fred, those years seemed to pass like quickly skimming a book and then finding the ending wasn't what he expected. He wished he'd paid more attention to the story.
Sarah Addison Allen
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Author
Attention
Book
Years
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I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as I opened it the lead character in it was called Morgan Brittany.
Morgan Brittany
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Actress
Book
Brittany
Character
Names
First Name
Lead Character
Morgan
Opened
Picked
Susan
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There is a universe behind and before him. And the day is approaching when closing the last book on the last shelf on the far left; he will say to himself, "now what?
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Philosopher
Book
Lasts
Shelves
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Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.
Dan Simmons
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Author
Men
Book
Self
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Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV
Debra Messing
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Actress
Book
Dog
Husband
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You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.
Wilferd Peterson
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Author
Motivational
Book
Inspiration
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Skill sheets, workbooks, basal reader, flash cards are not enough. To convey meaning you need someone sharing the meaning and flavor of real stories with the student.
Jim Trelease
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Author
Book
Real
Skills
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I never really liked "cool" books. I plowed through as much Borges and Joyce as possible, read the first half of V. and spent whole Bar Mitzvah checks on Beat poetry.
Simon Rich
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Humorist
Bars
Book
Mitzvah
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I've published one book before, and now I'm writing a book of essays and stories about life in Tokyo. And I have one book coming out in May in Germany, about fitness.
Franka Potente
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Film Actress
Fitness
Book
Essays
Germany
Tokyo
Writing
One Book
Published
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I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.
Bill Murray
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Actor
Book
Damn
Online
Reading
Thinking
World People More
World People Back
Brought
Screen
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When a colleague of mine had a notable New York Times book, I said, turn one of the chapters in the collection into a pitch for a novel and sell it to your publisher.
Julianna Baggott
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Novelist
New York
Book
Notable
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[To write poems] I think it's important to do research, and research mostly is going to come from books, so all of your reading is potentially helpful to your poetry.
Nikki Giovanni
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Writer
Book
Reading
Writing
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Why does one write these books after all? The drudgery, the misery, the grind, are forgotten everytime; and one launches another, and it seems sheer joy and buoyancy.
Virginia Woolf
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Writer
Book
Joy
Writing
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
Virginia Woolf
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Writer
Peace
Women
War
Book
Deals
Insignificant
Assumes
Critic
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Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.
Alexander Mccall Smith
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Writer
Book
Female
Perspective
Conversations
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I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.
Justin Halpern
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Author
Book
Father
Growing Up
Compile
Individually
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In book subjects a student can only do a student's work. All that can be measured is how well he learns, rather than how well he performs. All he can show is promise.
Peter Drucker
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Author
Book
Promise
Students
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The passion to condense from book to book Unbroken wisdom in a single look, Though we know well that when this fix the head, The mind's immortal, but the man is dead.
Yvor Winters
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Poet
Wisdom
Book
Passion
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Forty-years-old these days is the beginning of people's lives. I've found myself, I'm confident, I'm mature, I've been through some stuff, I'm ready to write my book.
Nicole Ari Parker
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Film Actress
Book
Mature
Writing
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English is much drier. You can get away with a lot less. Pathos, lyricism, these are things you have to tone down if you want the English version of the book to work.
Daniel Kehlmann
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Author
Book
Tone
Want
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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. I can write more quickly than I can read.
John Irving
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Novelist
Book
Me Long I Can
Nearly
Draft
Slowly
Quickly
Rewrite
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It is in books, poems, paintings which often give us the confidence to take seriously feelings in ourselves that we might otherwise never have thought to acknowledge.
Alain De Botton
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Writer
Book
Feelings
Giving
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Wisdom is not what comes from reading great books. When it comes to understanding life, experiential learning is the only worthwhile kind, everything else is hearsay.
Joan Erikson
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Psychologist
Book
Reading
Understanding
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A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human possibility what human nature is of what happens in the world. It's a creator of inwardness.
Susan Sontag
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Writer
Education
Book
Heart
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I just think structure can make a book feel so much bigger. It's the architecture. You could use flimsy materials if you wanted to, even, but it could still feel big.
Jami Attenberg
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Author
Book
Thinking
Use
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.
Garrison Keillor
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Author
Book
Order
Thinking
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I think it's very hard for us, for Christians, to understand that it's okay to read a book, for instance, on how to manage your time. There's nothing wrong with that.
Donald Miller
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Author
Book
Christian
Instance
Manage
Okay
Thinking
Christians
Time Nothing Your
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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.
Anne Stevenson
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Poet
Blake
Book
Frost
Prophetic
Yeats
Always Me More
Me Young Always
Influenced
Suppose
Robert
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I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.
Rupert Grint
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Actor
Book
Destroyed
Fans
Harry Potter
Thinking
I Am Big Fan
I Am Fan Big
Harry
Spot
Potter
Sets
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My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents studied from. That is absolutely the saddest thing in the world.
Sherman Alexie
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Poet
Book
Parent
School
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I use my awards as doorsteps. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library – they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces
Helen Mccrory
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Actress
Awards
Book
Office
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I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books: my mind was stimulated, my creativity encouraged.
Mark Mathabane
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Author
Book
Children
Mother
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I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about how it takes three or four years to get it right.
David Copperfield
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Magician
Book
Fans
Years
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An eight-mile drive over rain-washed Irish roads in the quick-falling dusk of autumn is an experience trying to the patience, even to the temper, of the average Saxon.
Katherine Cecil Thurston
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Novelist
Book
Fall
Rain
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I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made.
Danielle Dutton
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Running
Book
Writing
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Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
Jasper Fforde
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Novelist
Awards
Book
Seven
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The only reason I didn't kill myself after I read the reviews of my first book was because we have two rivers in New York and I couldn't decide which one to jumo into.
Wilfrid Sheed
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Novelist
New York
Book
Writing
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Horace Mann
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American Politician
Book
Children
House
Mean
Books
Bring
Buy
Means
Room
Surrounding
Windows
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To understand history,' Chacko said, 'we have to go inside and listen to what they're saying. And look at the books and the pictures on the wall. And smell the smells.
Arundhati Roy
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Author
Book
Smell
Wall
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I have no plan to retire anytime soon, although remember I am 50 years old! I do plan on the near future writing a book, that is definitely in the plans for my career.
Vinnie Vincent
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Guitarist
Book
Writing
Years
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A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.
Jim Jarmusch
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Film Director
Acceptance
Blake
Book
Firsts
Margins
Social Acceptance
William
Poets
Published
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I wrote 'The Art of the Deal' and numerous other books. Some were number one best-sellers. I guess 'The Art of the Deal' is the best-selling business book of all time.
Donald Trump
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45Th President Of The United States
Art
Book
Numbers
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The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.
Martin Gardner
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Science Writer
Book
Lasts
Levels
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This book, "Speaking Freely," starts when I came to New York. And the first chapter is about a man who became a friend of mine, much to our mutual surprise, Malcolm X.
Nat Hentoff
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Historian
New York
Men
Book
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I always do book signings with the same blue pen. That way, if I add a personalised message to a book I've already signed, it'll be in the same colour as my signature.
John Grisham
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Lawyer
Add
Blue
Book
Colour
Signatures
Pen
Signature
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The book says, 'Vanity Fair - a story without a hero.' Becky is effectively the protagonist, the hero we follow. But she is flawed. Becky is a subject of her own time.
Tom Bateman
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Book
Flawed
Hero
Vanity Fair
Effectively
Fair
Follow
Protagonist
Says
Subject
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I watch some kids ask the cafeteria ladies to sign their books. What do they write: "Hope your chicken patties never bleed?" Or, maybe, "May your Jell-O always wiggle?
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Writer
Kids
Book
Writing
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I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.
Frank Miller
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Writer
Artist
Book
Writing
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What makes a book great, a so-called classic, it its quality of always being modern, of its author, though he be long dead, continuing to speak to each new generation.
Lawrence Clark Powell
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Author
Book
Classic
Continuing
Long
Marijuana
New Generation
Great Always Long
Author
So-Called
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