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"530 Books Quotes

Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Society Fullness People Create
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A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.
Capacity Taste Reading Access
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Every burned book enlightens the world.

Book Burned Enlightens Every
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Books Useful Stupid Person
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A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.

Book Company Counselors Garden
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Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

About Detest Except Make
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There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book

Makes Improvisation Human Existence
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...you must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.

You Must Brought Books
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Well, there's so much to read, and I'm so far behind.
Well Much Read Behind
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The meeting of writer and reader is an intimate act, and it properly takes place in private.

Meeting Writer Reader Intimate
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He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.
He Who Without Newspaper
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Literature is one of the most interesting and significant expressions of humanity.

Literature One Most Interesting
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Every author really wants to have letters printed in the paper. Unable to make the grade, he drops down a rung of the ladder and writes novels.

Author Really Letters Printed
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When I get hold of a book I particularly admire, I am so enthusiastic that I loan it to someone who never brings it back.

Get Hold Book Admire
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Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
Avoid Books Characters Colorful
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Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!

Book Children Every Kid
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Book Books Day Doing
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Design Pride Dead Repair
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The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.

Book Conceived Executed Extent
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A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Man Losses Reality Surrounded
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Books Consolation Derive Life
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To read too many books is harmful.

Read Books Many Harmful
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Consider Proof Written Books
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

Books Capture Injustices Stays
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

Aloud AsFarAs Books Combination
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We recommend for the training of teachers not only a considerable artistic education in general but special attention to the art of reading.

Art Artistic Attention Considerable
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To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not repay some hard thought is not worth publishing.

Book Exercise Hard Notes
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This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.

Book Dead Perfume People
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A person who publishes a book willfully appears before the populace with his pants down. If it is a good book nothing can hurt him. If it is a bad book nothing can help him.

Person Publishes Book Appears
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A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

Publishes book Appears Public Eye
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Every kind of book I've written has been written in a different way. There has not been any set time for writing, any set way, I haven't re-invented the process every time but I almost have.

Almost Any Been Book
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I didn't have any concept of Trainspotting being published. It was a selfish act. I did it for myself.

Act Any Being Concept
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I enjoy the freedom of the blank page.
Blank Blank Page Enjoy Freedom
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I tend to read more nonfiction, really, because when I'm writing I don't like to read other fiction.

Because Fiction Like More
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. And I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.

Simple Blinders Read Book
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

Books Found Point Reason
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I have written a lot about the fine arts, but I'd never written about the literary arts, and so on some level Dante really, you know, spoke to me, as new ground but also familiar ground.

Familiar Ground Spoke Level
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When people write a novel, they want to have that reach and that impact. To get it with a first novel, you can either see it as an albatross or a calling card.

Calling Calling Card Card Either
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'Ulysses' is like a big box of tricks that you can dive into. Each time you read it, you find something new.

Big Box Dive Each
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Sometimes a book influences me because it winds me up. There'll be something that gets under my skin and makes me think that I can do better.

Because Better Book Gets
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Books Genre Like Love
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Writing is boring, very boring, and it takes so much patience.
Boring Much Patience Takes
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Books Difficult Intend Longing
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
Damn Easy Easy Reading Hard
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The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

About Been Better Books
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I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

About Better Book Books
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.

Deepest Early Early Life Imprint
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

About Around Book Comic
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All autobiography is storytelling; all writing is autobiography.
Autobiography Storytelling Writing
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