Favorite Book Quotes

• My favorite book is the last one printed, which is always better than those that were published earlier.

  Stephen Ambrose

  Book, Lasts, My Favorite

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• I never really had a childhood. I was around adults all the time. My favorite book when I was eight was “Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex - But Were Afraid to Ask”. I was not afraid to ask.

  Drew Barrymore

  Sex, Book, Eight

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• My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

  Caroline B. Cooney

  Book, Moments, My Favorite

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• My favorite book of all time is Cold Comfort Farm, by Stella Gibbons.

  Meg Cabot

  Book, Agriculture, Comfort

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• Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Reading, Book, Literacy

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• The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• Because the only people for me are the mad ones.

  Jack Kerouac

  Hippie, Yawning, People

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Powerful, Children, Book

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• the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

  Jack Kerouac

  Inspirational, Friends, Horse

  On the Road pt. 1, ch. 1 (1957)

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• My momma always said, "Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."

  Winston Groom

  Life, Motivational, Movie

  "Fictional character: Forrest Gump". "Forrest Gump", www.imdb.com. 1994.

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• Get busy living, or get busy dying.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Life, Movie

  Different Seasons "Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption" (1982)

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• There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.

  Marcel Proust

  Book, Reading, Unhappy Childhood

  Marcel Proust (1971). “On Reading”

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• People come, people go – they’ll drift in and out of your life, almost like characters in a favorite book. When you finally close the cover, the characters have told their story and you start up again with another book, complete with new characters and adventures. Then you find yourself focusing on the new ones, not the ones from the past.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Life, Book, Adventure

  FaceBook post by Nicholas Sparks from Jan 04, 2017

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• What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the right word to describe the relationship a reader has with a particularly cherished book. Most serious readers can point to one book that has a place in their life like the one that 'Middlemarch' has in mine.

  Rebecca Mead

  Children, Book, Identity

  Rebecca Mead (2014). “My Life in Middlemarch”, p.184, Broadway Books

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• Angle of Repose is one of my favorite books. I fell in love with it in college. When I submitted The Night Journal to my agent she got very excited because she said it reminded her of Angle of Repose.

  Elizabeth Crook

  Book, Night, College

  Source: www.elizabethcrookbooks.com

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• 'Holes' was my favorite book ever. So you know when you love a book and you hear it's being made into a movie and it makes you a little annoyed at first? But I would've loved to play the Shia LaBeouf role in that movie when I was younger. I just wanted to be the rebellious kid on the old digging camp.

  Nat Wolff

  Book, Kids, Play

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

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• The novel form is about the protagonist's struggle to transform his arbitrary, fragmented, given experience into a narrative as meaningful as his favorite books.

  Elif Batuman

  Meaningful, Struggle, Book

  Elif Batuman (2011). “The Possessed: Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them”, p.84, Granta Books

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• What I would most like to think they would take away, is what I take away when I read my favorite books. Which is the knowledge that there is always somewhere you can go, that you love, and where you're safe. And that's how I feel about my favorite books, wherever I am, if I've got that book with me, I've got a place where I can go and be happy. So if that place is Hogwarts for anyone, then I couldn't be more honored or humbled.

  J. K. Rowling

  Book, Thinking, Hogwarts

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• I don't hate humanity and I'm not interested in people who do. Although, it's funny, actually, some of my favorite writers really do. Like Martin Amis. My dirty secret. 'London Fields' is one of my favorite books ever. And it's indefensible! But he's so funny... I forgive him everything.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Hate, Dirty, Book

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• BIBLIOBLISS. Transported into states of transcendent pleasure while immersed in reading a favorite book.

  Rob Brezsny

  Book, Reading, Pleasure

  Rob Brezsny (2005). “Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings”, p.267, Frog Books

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• I just want to write someone’s favorite book

  Markus Zusak

  Book, Writing, Want

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• A year after One Thousand Gifts had released, Kathie Lee Gifford of the Today Show, named it one of her favorite things - the gift that will radically change your life. She shared the title with PEOPLE magazine as one of favorite books - quite astonishing for an evangelical Christian book.

  Ann Voskamp

  Christian, Book, Years

  Source: www.churchleaders.com

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• If you want a favorite book, Orson Scott Card's 'Ender's Game'. You'll be hooked. I think he's written like twelve or thirteen.

  Marisol Nichols

  Book, Thinking, Games

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

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• In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You may have a free-standing bookshelf of your favorite books if that's all you have room for.

  Nate Berkus

  Book, Mean, Space

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• Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I do every time, it's part of my production structure. He said when you're hiring an actor, ask them what draws them to the project, and don't lead them to the answer.

  Mike Birbiglia

  Book, Actors, Answers

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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