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" Quotes and Sayings About a book

The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

Baby Being Between Book
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If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters.

Book Chapters Cut Last
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I write for no other purpose than to add to the beauty that now belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four hundred acres to my magnificent estate.

Acres Add Beauty Belongs
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I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.
Book Could Dreamed Having
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A book is a gift you can open again and again.
Book Gift Open Again
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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 spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.

About Book Dog Drinking
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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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My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book.

Almost AlmostAll Book Dead
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A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply.
About Begins Book Care
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I get crazy in a bookstore. It makes my heart beat hard because I want to buy everything.

Beat Because Bookstore Buy
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As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.
Grow Somewhere Find Needful
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If you don't like my book, write your own. If you don't think you can write a novel, that ought to tell you something. If you think you can, do. No excuses. If you still don't like my novels, find a book you do like.

Book Excuses Find Like
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Going to the library was the one place we got to go without asking for permission. And they let us choose what we wanted to read. It was a feeling of having a book be mine entirely.

Asking Book Choose Entirely
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This idea that a book can either be about character and feeling, or about politics and idea, is just a false binary. Ideas are an expression of the feelings and the intense emotions we hold about the world.

About Binary Book Character
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I have some friends, some honest friends, and honest friends are few; My pipe of briar, my open fire, A book that's not too new.

Book Few Fire Friends
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I did not end up as broadly educated as my Cambridge colleagues, but I graduated probably better equipped to write a book on my chosen subject.

Better Book Cambridge Chosen
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An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.

Autobiography Boring Book Life
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I don't think you should write a book until you tell the absolute truth. You can't do that until you're 85, and I don't want to live that long. I've always prided myself on knowing when to get off, and I hope it works out that way.

Absolute Absolute Truth Always Book
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To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
Characteristics Combine Dope Fiend
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I was given a dictionary when I was seven, and I read it because I had nothing else to read. I read it the way you read a book.

Because Book Dictionary Else
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Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And how did he get there in the first place? And what kind of animals is he chasing?'

Animals Book Chasing Did
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A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never

Book Good company Conversation Loquacity
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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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One of the things I've learned as a filmmaker is to have some aspect of the movie be something that I admire greatly, whether that's an actor I'm working with, the subject matter, or a book.

Actor Admire Aspect Book
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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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If you're smart, you'll always be humble. You can learn all you want, but there'll always be somebody who's never read a book who'll know twice what you know.

Learn Never Read Smart
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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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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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A book is a device to ignite the imagination.

Book Device Ignite Imagination
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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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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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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Book Container Idea Inside
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The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it.

Possession Book Substitute Reading
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the dearer a book was to my heart, the more battered and bruised it became.

The dearer A book My heart More battered
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God's blessings are beyond money; they could be a contact, an instruction, a book you read, an inspiration, a song,endless!

God's blessings Beyond money A contact An instruction
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Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.

Except Living man Wonderful Book
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When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

You sell A man A book New life
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Living in a bookshop is like living in a warehouse of explosives. Those shelves are ranked with the most furious combustibles in the world--the brains of men.

Living in Bookshop Warehouse Explosive
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Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red.

Everybody A book Blood We're opened
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This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.

Taught me How easily Can escape This world
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A blessed companion is a book--a book that, fitly chosen, is a lifelong friend,a book that, at a touch, pours its heart into your own.

Blessed companion A book Lifelong friend Your own
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Readers are of two sorts: one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him.

Readers Two sorts Goes carefully A book
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A pretty sight, a lady with a book.

Pretty sight Lady with A book
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