Quotes with book-collector

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  • Jonathan Swift Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a look, far better than a printed book; convey a libel in a frown, and wink a reputation down.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Kurt Vonnegut Nothing in this book is true.
    Cat's Cradle (1963)
    Kurt Vonnegut
    American writer (1922 - 2007)
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  • Quentin Crisp Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin.
    Quentin Crisp
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
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  • Anita Diamant November is Jewish book month, so Jewish Community Centers all around the country have book fairs where they invite authors and sell books in advance of the holidays.
    Anita Diamant
    American author (1951 - )
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American poet, philosopher and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Anne Rice Obsession led me to write. It's been that way with every book I've ever written. I become completely consumed by a theme, by characters, by a desire to meet a challenge.
    Anne Rice
    American author of gothic fiction (1941 - 2021)
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  • Pablo Picasso Often while reading a book one feels that the author would have preferred to paint rather than write; one can sense the pleasure he derives from describing a landscape or a person, as if he were painting what he is saying, because deep in his heart he would have preferred to use brushes and colors.
    Pablo Picasso
    Spanish painter, draftsman and sculptor (1881 - 1973)
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  • Brea Grant Oh my God, I'm so excited. I love Comic-Con, it feels like a weird nerd camp. All my nerd friends are there and all the comic book writers I know and then a lot of actors, too, and you hang out with these people for just a few days, but you hang out with them all day, every day. It's like camp - it's like a weird camp. I love it.
    Brea Grant
    American actress and writer (1981 - )
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  • Brad Meltzer On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
    Brad Meltzer
    American political thriller novelist and non-fiction writer (1970 - )
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • E. M. Forster One always tends to overpraise a long book, because one has got through it.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Bernard Cornwell One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is fairly desultory and I like to stick to the book being written - and writing a book concentrates the mind so the research is more productive.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • W. H. Auden One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Carl Sagan One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • B. Joweit One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
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  • Burgess Owens One of the things I did in my book, I start off with, is explaining how great our grace was: the things we were able to accomplish after the first one-hundred years from slavery.
    Burgess Owens
    American football player (1951 - )
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  • Bob Mayer One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.
    Bob Mayer
    American author (1959 - )
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Only a fraction of book learning will seep into practical life anyhow; and the more foolish the theory, the less of it.
    On War (1832) Ch. 23
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Groucho Marx Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
    Groucho Marx
    American comic actor (1890 - 1977)
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