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"530 Books Quotes

It is a man's duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life.

Man's duty Have books Luxury Life
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To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme.
Produce Mighty book Theme
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I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

Have written Wicked book Lamb
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I had read tons of science fiction. I was fascinated by other worlds, other environments. For me, it was fantasy, but it was not fantasy in the sense of pure escapism.

Environments Escapism Fantasy Fascinated
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I know a bit about selling books, and you need a good title - a catchy concoction with a little Cajun spice, something that will make folks stop in the aisles, turn away from the Grisham novels and the latest crazy diet fad, and pick up your masterpiece.

About Away Bit Books
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A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

Bad Book Cannot Compared
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It is not a very difficult task to make what is commonly called an amusing book of travels. Any one who will tell, with a reasonable degree of graphic effect, what he has seen, will not fail to carry the reader with him; for the interest we all feel in personal adventure is, of itself, success.

Adventure Amusing Any Book
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I'm a huge Cormac McCarthy fan and have read every book of his.
Book Every Fan His
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Some of the things you read you get an immediate reaction to so I've stopped reading things now. I do worry about my family though. Some people do try some nasty things to get at them and try and get a reaction from them.

About Family Get Immediate
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I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book, in other words, the way one prunes a tree-so it can grow. This is my idea of a book.

Write abundantly Next step Struggle
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I don't want to read a book that's depressing.
Book Depressing Read Want
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Another Bees Books Carry
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
Book Criticized Old Security
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The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

Gentleman Good Lady Must
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The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

Becomes Eyes God Over
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I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Close My door Surrender myself Book
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Ladies know what to guard against, because they read novels that tell them of these trick.

Ladies Guard against Read novels Tell them
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One can’t prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Prescribe books To people One knows Good deal
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Books are keys to wisdom's treasure;
Books Keys Wisdom's treasure
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In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.

Books Ourselves Strangely enough Great pleasure
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If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

Book To read Been written You must
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Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.

What makes Book Good Reading it
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One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
One kind Good book Leave you Asking
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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

Sad books Best console Lonely service Love
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Despite the best efforts of critics and the hopes of authors, our tastes in books are probably as inherent and unbudgeable as those in food.

Best efforts Critics Hope Authors
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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Book Device Ignite Imagination
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Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it

Books Pasing time Other worlds Wanting time
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Can there be any greater pleasure than to come across an author one enjoys and then to find they have written not just one book or two, but at least a dozen?

Greater pleasure Come across An author One enjoy
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People should be interested in books, not their authors.

People Interested Books Authors
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Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in book

Man's Genuis Knowledge Books
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Books are gardens of the knowledgeable.

Books Are gardens Knowledgeable
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I can't read fiction without visualizing every scene. The result is it becomes a series of pictures rather than a book.

Read fiction Visualizing Every scene The result
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I'm not sure a bad person can write a good book. If art doesn't make us better, then what on earth is it for.

Bad person Write Good book Us better
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All these books are published in Heaven.

All Books Published Heaven
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The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency -- the belief that the here and now is all there is.

Failure.Books Vision Belief
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Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

Phrase Books Universal Eternal
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When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

Growing up Starting More books Geared towards
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What sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which every one else is reading.

What sense Superiority Escape reading Some book
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Books may well be the only true magic.

Books May well True magic
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That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

The joy Reading fiction The novel Belongs
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Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Books Challenging Inspirational
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That is a good book which is opened with expectation and closed with profit.

Good Book Opened Expectation
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If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.
Book Good Read Great
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I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

Feel Lending Book Fathers
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A book is meant not only to be read, but to haunt you, to importune you like a lover or a parent, to be in your teeth like a piece of gristle.

Book Read Haunt Importune
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The moment a book is lent I begin to miss it.

Moment Book Lent Begin
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The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

Like Book Slowly Read
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

The books Everybody admires Nobody reads
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You can cover a great deal of country in books.

You Cover Great Deal
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I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much for reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life

Was born The impression What happened In books
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