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Books Quotes

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 Picture Quote #1

I didn’t go to bookshops to buy. That’s a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization Picture Quote #1

Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper Picture Quote #1

Writing is a way of living. It doesn’t quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It’s a way of being alive, for the writer Picture Quote #1

You can’t just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know Picture Quote #1

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books Picture Quote #1

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To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job Picture Quote #1

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours Picture Quote #1

The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading Picture Quote #1

Before going back to college, I knew I didn’t want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together Picture Quote #1

I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you’ve probably never heard Picture Quote #1

It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him Picture Quote #1

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Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me Picture Quote #1

If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds Picture Quote #1

Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then Picture Quote #1

I think I’ve written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I’m an introspective person Picture Quote #1

The bands I like, they don’t sell too many records and the girls I like, they don’t kiss too many boys. Books I read will never be bestsellers yeah but come on fellas at least we made our choice Picture Quote #1

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries Picture Quote #1

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Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and... you send them out into the world and hope that some day they’ll send back money Picture Quote #1

I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me Picture Quote #1

I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike Picture Quote #1

Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words Picture Quote #1

The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women’s heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love Picture Quote #1

I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books Picture Quote #1

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As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which I lived. Gradually I began to see a pattern of nonsense in much scientific writing. Scientific explanations given regarding the origins or functioning of various phenomena simply didn’t make sense Picture Quote #1

Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power Picture Quote #1

There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life Picture Quote #1

Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look Picture Quote #1

Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year... I just wish some of them were harder to figure out Picture Quote #1

I don’t really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It’s just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects Picture Quote #1

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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 Quotes) I didn’t go to bookshops to buy. That’s a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization (Books Quotes) Businesses, like babies and books, need nurturing, time, energy, love, planning and, yes, money to develop, grow and prosper (Books Quotes) Writing is a way of living. It doesn’t quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in the world to read them. It’s a way of being alive, for the writer (Books Quotes) You can’t just be you. You have to double yourself. You have to read books on subjects you know nothing about. You have to travel to places you never thought of traveling. You have to meet every kind of person and endlessly stretch what you know (Books Quotes) A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books (Books Quotes) To be honest, when I was writing these stories a million years ago, I never thought about movies at all one way or another. It would have seemed almost miraculous for these things to be movies someday. To me, they were just comic books that I hoped would sell so I could keep my job (Books Quotes) Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours (Books Quotes) The reason books get banned, but movies can do almost anything is because the novel is more powerful than a movie. The reader is part of the creation of the story because they must imagine and envision it. There is creation in the act of reading (Books Quotes) Before going back to college, I knew I didn’t want to be an intellectual, spending my life in books and libraries without knowing what the hell is going on in the streets. Theory without practice is just as incomplete as practice without theory. The two have to go together (Books Quotes) I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you’ve probably never heard (Books Quotes) It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him (Books Quotes) Like anyone else, a lot of what I do and how I think has been shaped by my family and my overall life experience. Many who know me say I am also defined by my curiosity and thirst for learning. I buy more books than I can finish. I sign up for more online courses than I can complete. I fundamentally believe that if you are not learning new things, you stop doing great and useful things. So family, curiosity and hunger for knowledge all define me (Books Quotes) If a book is easy and fits nicely into all your language conventions and thought forms, then you probably will not grow much from reading it. It may be entertaining, but not enlarging to your understanding. It’s the hard books that count. Raking is easy, but all you get is leaves; digging is hard, but you might find diamonds (Books Quotes) Play the gayest tunes in your books, play them loud and keep on playing them, and never mind if a bullet goes through a trombone, or even a trombonist, now and then (Books Quotes) I think I’ve written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I’m an introspective person (Books Quotes) The bands I like, they don’t sell too many records and the girls I like, they don’t kiss too many boys. Books I read will never be bestsellers yeah but come on fellas at least we made our choice (Books Quotes) The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries (Books Quotes) Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and... you send them out into the world and hope that some day they’ll send back money (Books Quotes) I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me (Books Quotes) I think the value in books like mine, and a great number by other talented writers, is in the ability to bring dark subjects into the open where they are not so dark, where they can be talked about and considered by teens and adults alike (Books Quotes) Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of leaving, hesitations. Books leave certain sounds, a certain pacing; mostly they leave the elusive, which is all the story. They leave much more than the words (Books Quotes) The romance genre is the only genre where readers are guaranteed novels that place the heroine at the heart of the story. These are books that celebrate women’s heroic virtues and values: courage, honor, determination and a belief in the healing power of love (Books Quotes) I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which of my three worlds they will be entering when they pick up one of my books (Books Quotes) As time passed I became an avid reader of popular scientific books, wanting to know as much as I could about the world in which I lived. Gradually I began to see a pattern of nonsense in much scientific writing. Scientific explanations given regarding the origins or functioning of various phenomena simply didn’t make sense (Books Quotes) Love is only surpassing sweet when it is directed toward a mortal object, and the secret of this ultimate sweetness only is defined by the bitterness of death. Thus the white peoples of the world foresee a time when their land with its rivers and mountains still lies under heaven as it does today, but other people dwell there; when their language is entombed in books, and their laws and customs have lost their living power (Books Quotes) There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain time in a given place under given circumstances and at a given period of his life (Books Quotes) Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look (Books Quotes) Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year... I just wish some of them were harder to figure out (Books Quotes) I don’t really have a domestic inclination. Even my apartment has a semblance of a storage facility. It’s just stacks, there are no bookshelves, just books and piles of stamp collections and weird little sewing and knitting projects (Books Quotes)

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