Book Quotes - Page 25

• Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

  Jonathan Lethem

  People, Attention, Shapes

  Interview with Peter Andrey Smith, www.believermag.com. May 2012.

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• Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want the object to look good. I won't believe in it and it won't be real to me until there's a finished book I can hold.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Real, Believe, Looks

  Interview with Peter Andrey Smith, www.believermag.com. May 2012.

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• The computer is the way I'm making books, but I still think about the physical properties. I visualize the length of a book, the proportions of a book, in material terms.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Thinking, Way, Computer

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hate, Writing, Library

  Interview with Peter Andrey Smith, www.believermag.com. May 2012.

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• Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

  Geoff Dyer

  Style, Form, Subjects

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Mean, Engagement

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, School, Goal

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Ideas, Space, Grace

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Solidarity, Reader, Connected

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways to connect over a book or books, whatever they may be.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Important, May, Way

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• I thought I was writing for a fairly hip, intelligent crowd; I just thought there were more of them out there. But they're not. They're not out there waiting. They're not gonna use their intelligence on your book.

  Barry Hannah

  Writing, Intelligent, Waiting

  Interview with Wells Tower, believermag.com. October 1, 2010.

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• Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

  Tucker Carlson

  Motivation, Lying, Holiday

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Death is a big theme in the book, illness. What is that? It's a fact that human beings - no matter who they are, no matter how healthy or strong or beautiful they are - are going to age and become weak and ugly by a certain standard, and die. And I think that's a terrifying idea for people to get their minds around.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Beautiful, Strong, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

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• I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Stars, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

  Agnes Varda

  Literature, Found, Ifs

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Is It Bill Bailey?". Comedy, Music, 1998.

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• Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"

  Chris Rock

  Funny, Humor, College

  "Chris Rock: Bring the Pain". TV Special, June 1, 1996.

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• Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Done

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• One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Black

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who you are... and when I find you I am going to kill you.

  Lewis Black

  Funny, Humor, Today

  "Nothing's Sacred". Book by Lewis Black, 2005.

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• I'm very English really. I even ordered a book on the internet, 'how to have absolutely nothing to do with your neighbors'. Unfortunately I was out when it was delivered.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Internet

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• I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Every now and then I'll read a book, I'll be so proud of myself, I'll try and squeeze it into conversation. People will be like, "Hey Jim, how ya do-" "I read a book! Two hundred and fifty pages!" "That's great, what was it about?" "No idea! Took me three years!"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• I immediately went out and bought a book on anger management. And now I have that book, and I don't know if I'll get to the book. But I'm certainly excited about the day where I can't find the book, and I get to say, 'Where the hell is my anger management book?!'

  Marc Maron

  Funny, Humor, Anger Management

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• I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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