Book Quotes - Page 23

• Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

  Richard Bach

  Important, Mail, Difficult Times

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

  Richard Bach

  Writing, Way, Problem

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• I like that you can open up any one of my books anywhere and immediately be lost. I just love them so much.

  Richard Bach

  Lost

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.

  Dolly Parton

  School, Self, Want

  "Dolly Parton: The Southern Living Interview". Interview with Jennifer V. Cole, www.southernliving.com.

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• I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

  Ray Bradbury

  Children, Kids, World

  Source: www.raybradbury.com

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• I'm a situational writer. You give me a situation, like a writer gets in a car crash, breaks his leg, is kidnapped by his number-one fan, and is kept in a cabin and forced to write a book - everything else springs from there. You really don't have to work once you've had the idea. All you have to do is kind of take dictation from something inside.

  Stephen King

  Spring, Writing, Ideas

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I collect art on a very modest scale. Most of what I have is photography because I just love it and it makes me happy and it looks good in my home. I also have a pretty big collection of art books mainly, again, on photography. A lot of photography monographs, which is great because with photography, the art itself can be reproduced quite well in book form.

  Chris Parnell

  Photography, Art, Home

  "Chris Parnell on Farrah Fawcett and being mistaken for Chris Kattan". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 11, 2015.

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• Fantasy has a better chance of lasting than a lot of other things. The Hobbit and the Narnia books, they seem to get handed down father to son, mother to daughter. Because they're set in a fantasy world, they can remain relevant.

  Stephen King

  Mother, Daughter, Father

  "A Rare Interview with Master Storyteller Stephen King". Interview with Ken Tucker, parade.com. May 25, 2013.

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• I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Trying, Done, Clubs

  Source: wwd.com

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• I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, "Honey, I said everything I wanted to say."

  Oprah Winfrey

  Years, Lunch, Trying

  Source: wwd.com

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• I started writing as a child. But I didn't think of myself, actually writing until I was in college. And I had gone to Africa as a sophomore or something, no maybe junior and wrote a book of poems. And that was my beginning. I published that book.

  Alice Walker

  Children, Writing, College

  Source: www.blackfilm.com

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• I believe that the habit of constant reading of good books and scholarly periodicals and magazines in many disciplines is vital to give a larger perspective and to constantly sense the interdependent nature of life.

  Stephen Covey

  Believe, Reading, Discipline

  Source: zenhabits.net

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• I am senting many books for endorsement purposes, which enables me to stay relevant in my own field, and I have people that help me decide which ones I should read and endorse.

  Stephen Covey

  People, Purpose, Fields

  Source: zenhabits.net

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• I'm tired of the 'can't win against evil' way. I'm sorry, you cannot. They'll run you over. So that is my one big passion. 'Ten Stupid Things People Do to Let Evil Win' - that will be my next passion book. I am angry.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Running, Sorry, Stupid

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• With the law books filled with a great assortment of crimes, a prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone. In such a case, it is not a question of discovering the commission of a crime and then looking for the man who has committed it, it is a question of picking the man and then searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.

  Robert H. Jackson

  Men, Law, Political

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• All one needs to do is read - books, magazines, research the Internet - and pay attention to the influencers in their lives to discover the myriad people of strong moral character who have and still are making positive, meaningful contributions and differences in our world.

  Zig Ziglar

  Meaningful, Strong, Character

  Source: www.centerforfaithandwork.com

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• Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Insane, Hallucinations, Study

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Most books are bought by women.

  Gloria Steinem

  Source: muse.jhu.edu

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• I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books].

  Alice Walker

  Important, Disrespectful, Mediums

  Source: www.timeout.com

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• A certain type of critic doesn't really want French movies to be visual. They think movies started from books and they forgot this part of moviemaking, like Chaplin and Buster Keaton, which I didn't forget.

  Audrey Tautou

  Thinking, Want, Forget

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• [Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.

  Liz Tuccillo

  Jobs, Fun, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I do think there's a relationship between a book and a reader that's more intimate, in many ways, than the relationship between an audience member and a play - just by the nature of it being an object that you can have in bed with you and that you can keep and page through.

  Sarah Ruhl

  Thinking, Play, Bed

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or Friedrich Hayek or others.

  Milton Friedman

  Wall, Fall, Progress

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book [The Sixth Extinction] is that we are unusual.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Smart, Animal, Long

  "Pulitzer Winner Elizabeth Kolbert on Mass Extinctions - and Our Own Eventual One". Interview with Benjy Hansen-Bundy, www.motherjones.com. February 4, 2014.

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• I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.

  Art Spiegelman

  Reading, Thinking, Rocks

  "Art Spiegelman’s Life in the 'Shadow of Maus'". Interview with Eric Wuestewald, www.motherjones.com. January 6, 2014.

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