Quotes 381 till 400 of 496.
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The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.
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The reason I call my book 'Irreverent' is because there were a lot of pictures that were very irreverent. Maybe I could call my book 'Forgiving' because maybe I made a lot of errors, too.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection...
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The tax collector must love poor people. He is creating so many of them.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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The thought of' the inferiority of the Negro is drilled into him in almost every class he enters and in almost every book he studies.
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The way to push things through to a finish effectively must be learned.
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The whole purpose of writing a book is to be understood - if other people write about you, they try to guess why you did things, or they hear things from other people.
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The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.
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The words of my book nothing, the drift of it everything.
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The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.
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Then you start another book and suddenly the galley proofs of the last one come in and you have to wrench your attention away from what you're writing and try to remember what you were thinking when you wrote the previous one.
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There are few efforts more conducive to humility than that of the translator trying to communicate an incommunicable beauty. Yet, unless we do try, something unique and never surpassed will cease to exist except in the libraries of a few inquisitive book lovers.
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There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
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There are some good teachers out there, but the only one who is a genius at diagnosing my swing is my mom. She took up golf late, when she was 39, but in her younger days, she was an amazing athlete. She never read an instruction book or took lessons, but she has a remarkable eye for motion.
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There are those who believe that the value of a children's book can be measured only in terms of the moral lessons it tries to impose or the perfect role models it offers. Personally, I happen to think that a book is of extraordinary value if it gives the reader nothing more than a smile or two. In fact, I happen to think that's huge.
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There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boaaiabout it.
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.
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