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" Quotes and Sayings About a book

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

Book Only Page Read
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You cannot open a book without learning something.
Book Cannot Learning Open
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Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy then an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, and then it becomes a master, and then it becomes a tyrant and, in the last stage, just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public.

Master Monster Reconcile Book
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I deeply respect literature and expect to gain insight from a book and to identify emotionally with its characters. I therefore avoid reading suspense novels or science fiction.

Respect Expect Novel Fiction
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The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Page Read Travel World
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We did a book signing and people came up to me. There was an expectant mother who was like,

Mother Children Book Work
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Books are something social - a writer speaking to a reader - so I think making the reading of a book the center of a social event, the meeting of a book club, is a brilliant idea.

Books Social Writer Speaking
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There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.

Motives Boast Enjoy Book
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Words are power. And a book is full of words. Be careful what power you get from it. But know that you do.

Book Careful Full Get
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Be awesome! Be a book nut!
Book Nut Awesome
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I never have written every day. When I’m writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity.

Sanity Pretend Book Writing
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As soon as I finish a book, I sell the paperback rights to different publishers and that's where I recoup my money.

Book Different Money Publisher
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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.
Write Read Book Written
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Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher in the Rye' did just that, and I still do love it.

Adolescence Any Arrows Book
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I was a big reader as a kid, but it was 'Charlotte's Web' that showed me you could feel as if you were actually living inside a book.

Actually Big Book Charlotte
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I grew up being very shy, very much a bookworm, and I remember desperately wondering how to be accepted by the popular kids.

Accepted Being Desperately Grew
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There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

Between Book Deal Difference
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Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books.

Book Books Child Children
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
Big Book Cup Enough
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I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.

Am America Become Book
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If I ever wrote a book on preaching, it would contain three words: Preach the Word. Get rid of all the other stuff that gets you sidetracked; preach the Word.

Preach Rid Sidetracked Stuff
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I think the definition of a book is changing.

Book Changing Definition Think
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The key thing about a book is that you lose yourself in the author's world.

About Author Book Key
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.

Admire Bandit Bear Book
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I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

Book Lot Nice Obscure
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I wish one time in my life I could do what other writers do... get me a villa in Spain and go there to write a book.

Book Could Get Go
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I'd like to know what I could do if I really had the time to spend on writing a book, with no columns or shows to do at the same time.

Book Columns Could Had
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

Against Also Book Books
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The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Being Book Concepts Contains
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After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.

After Book Bookstore Content
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
After Book I Think Judged
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

Become Book Even Homer
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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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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.

Would Never Want Book
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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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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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Genuine polemics approach a book as lovingly as a cannibal spices a baby.

Approach Baby Book Cannibal
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The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a library to make a book.

Book Greatest Half Library
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Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.

Always Bad Book Disgrace
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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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When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx.

About Book Discovered Evolution
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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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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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There is no friend as loyal as a book.

Book As Friend Loyal
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Getting out of the hospital is a lot like resigning from a book club. You're not out of it until the computer says you're out of it.

Book Book Club Club Computer
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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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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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