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"530 Books Quotes

We all know that education unlocks the door of opportunity for the young.

Door Education Know Opportunity
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Read much, but not many books.
Books Many Much Read
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Read in order to live.

Live Book Education Order
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Books Least Narrative Point
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Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

About Because Describe Every
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Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Because Books Complicated Dark
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I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so I had to prove that I could write a realistic book.

Been Book Break Could
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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
Western Civilization Elders Books
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There is no body of ancient literature in the world which enjoys such a wealth of good textual attestation as the New Testament.

Body Ancient Literature World
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The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.

Author Everywhere God His
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In a good book the best is between the lines.

Lines Best Good Book
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A superhuman will is needed in order to write, and I am only a man.

Am I Am Man Needed
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Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of genius, is, above all, force.

Above Believe Book Characteristic
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What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

What A Writer Do
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Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

Good Novels Fiction Creates
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Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

Literature Sucks You Into
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Every time I write a new novel about something sombre and sobering and terrible I think, 'oh Lord, they're not going to want to go here'.

Every Time Write New
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I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get.
Novels Read Bible Learn
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I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in.

About Any Form I Think
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
Read Bible Night Black
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Books Good Heavy Discipline
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A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
Classic Book Written
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.

Becomes Book Dead Genius
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.

Almost Any Believe Call
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I have become infected, now that I see how beautifully a book is coming out of all this.

Beautifully Become Book Coming
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A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say
Classics Book Finished Saying
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I am more and more convinced that literature is made up of works, genres, schools, discussions, problems, collective work in order to solve certain problems.

Convinced Literature Made Works
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The last book I read was the book I've been rereading most of my life, The Fountainhead.
Been Book Last Life
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We don't have to think up a title till we get the doggone book written.

Book Get Think Till
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I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
Spent Time People Books
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Good literature can be created only with something that is different from literature.
Good Literature Created Different
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A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

Classic Book Rereading Discovery
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Based Books Documentary Evidence
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The biographical novel is a true and documented story of one human being's journey across the face of the years, transmuted from the raw material of life into the delight and purity of an authentic art form.

Across Art Art Form Authentic
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An absolutely necessary part of a writer's equipment, almost as necessary as talent, is the ability to stand up under punishment, both the punishment the world hands out and the punishment he inflicts upon himself.

Ability Absolutely Almost Both
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Every novelist has a different purpose - and often several purposes which might even be contradictory.

Contradictory Different Even Every
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A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

Honor Live Sense Writer
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
All Writers Bad Bad One Forget
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.

Critics Reach Readers Regardless
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

Around Citizen Compromises Everybody
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When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

1930s Almost Almost Nothing Early
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Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

Begin Fiction Form Likely
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Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

Acceptable Deal Did Ernest Hemingway
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The great writers just kept bringing them out. They didn't care if they repeated themselves.

Bringing Care Great Just
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The writer works in a lonely way.

Lonely Way Works Writer
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.

Everybody Hard Keep Novel
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The last paragraph, in which you tell what the story is about, is almost always best left out.

About Almost Always Best
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Being He Honor Human
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A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
About Editor Good Meddle
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Books Enough Kept Long
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