Quotes with books

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  • Paul Auster I don't like pictures in books. I feel that the pictures diminish the words, and the words diminish the pictures, and it doesn't work.
    (2014)
    Paul Auster
    American writer and film (1947 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Jonathan Franzen I don't personally like the e-readers they've come up with so far. I don't fetishize books, but I do like that they're solid and unchanging.
    De correcties (2010)
    Jonathan Franzen
    American novelist and essayist (1959 - )
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  • Carlos Fuentes I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
    Carlos Fuentes
    Mexican novelist and essayist (1928 - 2012)
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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Salman Rushdie I grew up kissing books and bread.
    Is nothing sacred? (1990)
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Anne McCaffrey I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
    Anne McCaffrey
    American-Irish writer (1926 - 2011)
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  • Augustus William Hare I have ever gained the most profit, and the most pleasure also, from the books which have made me think the most: and, when the difficulties have once been overcome, these are the books which have stuck the deepest root, not only in my memory and understanding, but likewise in my affections.
    Augustus William Hare
    British writer (1792 - 1834)
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  • Francis Bacon I have rather studied books than men.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Stephen Hawking I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex.
    The Illustrated Brief History of Time , voorwoord
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Alex Haley I look at my books the way parents look at their children. The fact that one becomes more successful than the others doesn't make me love the less successful one any less.
    Alex Haley
    American writer (1921 - 1992)
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  • Oliver Goldsmith I love everything that's old: old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wines; and, I believe, Dorothy, you'll own I have been pretty fond of an old wife.
    Oliver Goldsmith
    Irish writer and poet (1728 - 1774)
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  • Augusten Burroughs I love to both give and receive very old books.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Charles Lamb I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.
    Charles Lamb
    English essayist (1775 - 1834)
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  • Jean Rostand I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • Zora Neale Hurston I regret all of my books.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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  • Iain Banks I remember being shocked when I discovered some of my school pals didn't have books in their homes. I thought it was like not having oxygen, or hot water.
    Iain Banks
    Scottish author (1954 - 2013)
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  • John Burroughs I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see.
    John Burroughs
    American writer (1837 - 1921)
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  • E. M. Forster I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.
    Two Cheers for Democracy (1951) A Book That Influenced Me
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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