Quotes with book-collector

Quotes 61 till 80 of 496.

  • Ernest Hemingway All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • David Livingstone All that I am I owe to Jesus Christ, revealed to me in His divine Book.
    David Livingstone
    Scottish explorer, Christian Congregationalist and missionary (1813 - 1873)
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  • Bryan Burrough All the way back in 1999, when I first stumbled upon the idea of a project tracking John Dillinger and Baby Face Nelson and all the major Depression-era bank robbers, I thought the subject was too big to be a single book. Instead, with a friend's help, I pitched the idea as a miniseries to HBO. To my amazement, they bought it.
    Bryan Burrough
    American author and correspondent (1961 - )
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  • André Malraux An art book is a museum without walls.
    André Malraux
    French writer and politician (ps. by A. Berger) (1901 - 1976)
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  • Thomas Traherne An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth nothing. I have a mind to fill this with profitable wonders.
    Thomas Traherne
    British Clergyman, Poet, Mystic (1636 - 1674)
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  • Al Franken And I think that being able to make people laugh and write a book that's funny makes the information go down a lot easier and it makes it a lot more fun to read, easier to understand, and often stronger. So there's all kinds of advantages to it.
    Al Franken
    American comedian, politician and author (1951 - )
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  • Peter Ackroyd And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside a book and never come out again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever.
    First Light (1996) 50
    Peter Ackroyd
    English biographer, novelist and critic (1949 - )
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  • Joan Didion Another thing I need to do, when I'm near the end of the book, is sleep in the same room with it...Somehow the book doesn't leave you when you're asleep right next to it.
    Faceboek (2011)
    Joan Didion
    American Essayist (1934 - 2021)
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  • Adam Clymer Another thing that's quite different in writing a book as a practicing newspaperman is that if you look at what you've written the next morning and you think you didn't get it quite right, you can fix it.
    Adam Clymer
    American journalist (1937 - 2018)
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  • Thomas Gray Any fool may write a most valuable book by change, if he will only tell us what he heard and saw with veracity.
    Sketch of his own character
    Thomas Gray
    British poet (1716 - 1771)
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  • Bill Mumy Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink As an author, you can't expect a movie to be an illustration of the book. If that's what you hope for, you shouldn't sell the rights.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • Bernhard Schlink As an author, you hope for a director and a cast that will make something wonderful out of your book.
    Bernhard Schlink
    German lawyer, academic, and novelist (1944 - )
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  • John Milton As good almost kill a man as kill a good book; who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were in the eye.
    John Milton
    English poet, polemicist and man of letters (1608 - 1674)
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  • Billy Graham As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
    Billy Graham
    American Evangelist (1918 - 2018)
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  • Barbara Delinsky As I plotted 'Blueprints,' I realized that ageism against women is most obvious in the field of entertainment - and that I needed a TV show in my book.
    Barbara Delinsky
    American writer (1945 - )
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  • G. C. Lichtenberg As I take up my pen I feel myself so full, so equal to my subject, and see my book so clearly before me in embryo, I would almost like to try to say it all in a single word.
    G. C. Lichtenberg
    German writer and physicist (1742 - 1799)
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  • Donna Tartt As much fun as it is to read a book, writing a book is one level deeper than that.
    Donna Tartt
    American author (1963 - )
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  • Buchi Emecheta As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Brad Stone As we have seen again and again, when Amazon doesn't get the economic conditions from suppliers that it seeks, it simply goes its own way. In the book business, that has meant publishing its own titles under the various Kindle imprints. Now it's making diapers.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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