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"530 Books Quotes

The Bible is the MOST tested, tried and proven of all texts on the science of life. Its mission is to make life MEANINGFUL and destiny most COLORFUL.

Bible Life Tested Proven
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People generally don't recognize how long it takes to conceive, publish, and write a book.

Book Conceive Generally Long
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Accessible local libraries are vital to communities and to children.
Accessible Children Communities Libraries
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Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

Any Book Case Changed
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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Anyone Books Exclude Excluded
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The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

Awful Blame Books Find
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If you can get every kid to have found a book that he or she loves, then you've done a great job.

Book Done Every Found
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When someone says they've read your book 15 times, you think, 'Well, you should read something else.'

Book Else Read Says
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Once you create this thing between duty and reading, it's over. Reading's over.

Between Create Duty Once
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The whole point of reading is that the writer is speaking to you, and if you're not listening, you're not going to have any fun reading.

Any Fun Going Listening
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If it's not gripping you, you are reading the wrong book.

Book Gripping Reading Wrong
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The easiest thing to write was 'Fever Pitch' because it was a memoir.

Because Easiest Fever Memoir
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Writing is about confidence and wondering what the point of anything is.

About Anything Confidence Point
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I think that every book that's in a bookstore should entertain in some way.
Book Book store Entertain Every
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I'm really not a big rereader - I'm too aware of my own ignorance.

Aware Big Ignorance Own
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

Ages Books Chief Esteem
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The world of books is still the world.
World Books
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
Fanatic Never Really Comic
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When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wonderful thing.

Imagery Important Makes Most
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

Books Find Given Mind
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I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

Characters Female Female Characters Happen
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I buy way too many books.

Books Buy Many Too
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When I read it, I don't wince, which is all I ever ask for a book I write.
Ask Book Ever IWrite
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Yes, I don't read books for entertainment.
I don't Read books Entertainment
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But I have a list of books that I want to read before I die, and whenever I get time to read something that isn't a script, I'll read something from that.

Books Read Die
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In the summer of '80, Silhouette bought my first book.

Book Bought First Silhouette
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The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Beauty Book Books Deep
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Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo - Jo being the writer and the misfit.

Being Course Girl Like
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When I was younger, I felt it was my duty to wake people up. I thought poetry was asleep. I thought rock 'n' roll was asleep.

Asleep Duty Felt People
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I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

Because Book Go Good
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I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

Just Lot Prose Published
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When I stopped performing for 16 years and lived in Michigan and was married and raising my children, I wrote about four or five books. I haven't published them. I just haven't gotten around to it for several reasons.

About Around Books Children
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I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

Away Books Childhood Interested
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I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.

Books Coming Early Ghost
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If you actually do cold readings, it's very close to how people actually talk, because you're experiencing these thoughts anew every moment, and trying to make them come out coherently.

Actually Anew Because Close
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It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently.

Book Case Differently Read
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When you look at the books about well-being, you see one word - it's happiness. People do not distinguish.

Distinguish People Happiness Word
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Every single book is a challenge.

Book Challenge Every Single
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And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Best Book Each Effort
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Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

Young men Prove theorems Old men
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Book Gift Open Again
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One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.

Read books Privilege Life
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I was afraid you had deceased,' he said. 'Or gotten engrossed in a long book.

Afraid Deceased Gotten engrossed Book
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

Believe Books Expect Immortality
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Now you mustn't think that I don't have any ideas for novels in my head. I've got ideas for ten novels in my head. But with every idea I have, I already foresee the wrong novels I would write, because I also have critical ideas in my head; I've got a full theory of the perfect novel, and that's what stumps me.

Also Any Because Critical
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Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Actually Books Classics Find
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I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Books Brief Collected Composed
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When I'm writing a book, I prefer not to speak about it, because only when the book is finished can I try to understand what I've really done and to compare my intentions with the result.

About Because Book Compare
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I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a glass of tea, give my wife a kiss, and go back in and write some more. It's not so bad. I am really lucky.

Writing books At home Wife Glass
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A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
Book Mirror Look Apostle
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