Quotes with book-collector

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  • Anne McCaffrey At age 77, I need the help of someone with more energy than I can now summon to finish a book.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Carol Berg At one of the first science fiction conventions I ever went to, I saw a guy wearing a sandwich board promoting his book. Count me out of that one.
    Carol Berg
    American writer of fantasy novels (1948 - )
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  • Alanis Morissette At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.
    Alanis Morissette
    Canadian-American singer, songwriter and actress (1974 - )
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  • Avi Arad At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing.
    Avi Arad
    Israeli-American businessman (1948 - )
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  • Les Brown Begin to read a book that will help you move toward your dream.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Anthony Trollope Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
    Anthony Trollope
    British writer (1815 - 1882)
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  • Bernard Cornwell Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.
    Bernard Cornwell
    British author of historical novels (1944 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Anthony Doerr But then of course you reach a point where you have to say, I've got to figure out how this book's going to end. Otherwise, you're going to write yourself into so many dead-ends.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Bjorn Lomborg But this is an occupational hazard of being a scientist. You say this is the best information I have and then you realize that not everyone is going to read the footnotes or the whole book, so people are going to get the wrong impression.
    Bjorn Lomborg
    Danish author (1965 - )
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  • Anne Tyler But what I hope for from a book - either one that I write or one that I read - is transparency. I want the story to shine through. I don't want to think of the writer.
    Anne Tyler
    American novelist and short story writer (1941 - )
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  • Walt Whitman Camerado! This is no book; who touches this touches a man.
    Walt Whitman
    American poet, essayist, and journalist (1819 - 1892)
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  • Bruce Schneier Chaos is hard to create, even on the Internet. Here's an example. Go to Amazon.com. Buy a book without using SSL. Watch the total lack of chaos.
    Biancuzzi, Federico (2005)
    Bruce Schneier
    American cryptographer, computer security professional and writer (1963 - )
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  • A. E. van Vogt Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children.
    A. E. van Vogt
    Canadian-born science fiction author (1912 - 2000)
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  • Mark Twain Classic. A book which people praise and don't read.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Alan Bennett Definition of a classic: a book everyone is assumed to have read and often thinks they have.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Abraham Pais Deliberately or not, every author is of course present in every book he or she writes - even in a scientific text.
    A Tale of Two Continents (1997) p. xv
    Abraham Pais
    Dutch-American physicist (1918 - 2000)
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  • Alice Walker Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn't matter. I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bethany Hamilton Doing everything with one arm, being well-known, and having a book and a movie, it's fairly abnormal. As far as just not having to worry about past experiences, I've healed very well.
    Bethany Hamilton
    American professional surfer (1990 - )
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  • Dwight D. Eisenhower Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
    Dwight D. Eisenhower
    American president (1890 - 1969)
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