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When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language.
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When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.
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When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.
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When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember talking to my mom, really trying to verbalize all the experiences I was having. And I remember my mom saying, 'Ben, reflection is a retroactive process.' When you're going through it, that's the time to just let it wash over you.
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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
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When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.
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When you put a book together and arrange it, there's a lot of anxiety and turmoil about what order the poems should be in.
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When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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When you reread a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
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When you think of the huge uninterrupted success of a book like Don Quixote, you're bound to realize that if humankind have not yet finished being revenged, by sheer laughter, for being let down in their greatest hope, it is because that hope was cherished so long and lay so deep!
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Whenever I open a book about jazz, I turn to the index and look for Lennie Tristano, the incredible pianist; Lee Konitz, the luminous alto sax player; and Warne Marsh, the tenor player who captured some of the most beautiful sounds in the world.
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While the 1980 book was being serialized in the Sunday Times, Charles attacked it through the Observer.
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While writing, I tend to repeat the same song, endlessly, for thousands of times. This helps me ignore any lyrics, and helps create a consistent mood for each book.
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Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever it has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?
Interview with Charlie Rose (1996) -
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image, but thee who destroys a good book, kills reason itself.
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With a small town mentality, you make a decision very early on as to whether you are going to do everything by the book or just go your own way and not care.
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With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.
Ban Ki-moon's statement on the Awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi (2014) -
With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on Oprah, Fox News, the Early Show, and Good Morning America. Oprah was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short; you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.
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Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
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