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"530 Books Quotes

There are books that are made for you to sit and puzzle over and spend time with.

Books Made Over Puzzle
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If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.
Read Time Tools Write
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I can remember being home from school with tonsillitis and writing stories in bed to pass the time.
Bed Being Home I Can
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You see something, then it clicks with something else, and it will make a story. But you never know when it's going to happen.

Clicks Else Going Happen
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I'm still in love with what I do, with the idea of making things up, so hours when I write always feel like very blessed hours to me.

Always Blessed Feel Hours
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If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

Above Around Aware Lot
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Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

Bad Book Books Every
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And as a writer, one of the things that I've always been interested in doing is actually invading your comfort space. Because that's what we're supposed to do. Get under your skin, and make you react.

Actually Always Because Been
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Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

Book Daughter First First Of All
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It is very, very easy not to be offended by a book. You just have to shut it.

Book Easy Just Offended
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A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.

Book Ignore Like Offer
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Act Authors Books Choose
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.

Become Books Clearly Concerned
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Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed.

Sometimes People Write Novels
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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

Ages Books Burned Burning
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.

Am Books Business Suppressing
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
Because Books Endure Enough
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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

Advertising Am Bear Because
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Whatever is on the page is what I'm married to. I'm very prepared. I'm a thespian. I don't like to improv. I don't like to go off course 'cause I think that's where stuff happens. When you stick to the material 'cause it's written so well, that's where the magic happens.

Whatever Page Married Very
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I've actually not read any books on time management.
Actually Any Books Management
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The Twist was a guided missile launched from the ghetto into the heart of suburbia. The Twist succeeded, as politics, religion and law could never do, in writing in the heart and soul what the Supreme Court could only write on the books.b

Books Could Court Ghetto
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I do not recall a Jewish home without a book on the table.
Book Home Jewish Recall
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I decided to devote my life to telling the story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the dead. and anyone who does not remember betrays them again.

Again Anyone Because Betray
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There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages which is the result of an original eight hundred pages. The six hundred are there. Only you don't see them.

Beginning Between Book Difference
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Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not like.

Method Writing Buy Ways
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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Approach Baby Book Cannibal
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The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Write Reason Good Books
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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.

Case Cases Considered Few
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Books Forgotten None Remembered
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I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.

Again Another Another Time Back
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It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book.

Book Geeky Greatest Harry
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I always have several books on the go at any one moment, so it's no good you asking 'What's on the bedside table at the moment, Emma?' because often I can't even see the table!

Always Any Asking Because
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If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.

Any Better Book Both
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I don't like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.

Better Book Columns Gives
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All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn.

American American Literature Book Huckleberry Finn
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If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.

About Above Being Dignity
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For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Best Better Good Good Luck
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My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Aim Best Down Feel
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Books Common Good Had
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

Book Read Real One
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If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry.
Body Book Cold Ever
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

Any Away Book Lands
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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So, while I gave up the notions of publishing at that time, I never stopped editing and refining that book. A few years later, in 1987, I thought I had it ready to go out again.

Again Book Editing Few
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Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers.

Book Expect Experience Me
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A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.

Bean Day Gets He
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I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Books Closed Follow Novel
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Never index your own book.
Book Never Own Your
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Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden.

About Asked Book Main
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I've just always been a reader.

Always Been Just Reader
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