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Lois McMaster Bujold

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The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

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Jane Fonda

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Anatole France

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Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

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I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Goldie Hawn

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John Ashbery

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John Ruskin

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I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?' You just can't help it; it's the way people are.

Irvine Welsh

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.

Nick Hornby

Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.

Orson Scott Card

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.

Pablo Neruda

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

Daniel Kahneman

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.

Italo Calvino

I'm one of those who can't read the books after they've seen the movie.

Peter Dinklage

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.

Ray Bradbury

I publish my own books, so there isn't a certain editor I owe the book to at a publishing house.

Dave Eggers

Normally, I spend a week on the outline and take two weeks to write the book.

R. L. Stine

I loved to read, but I always thought that the dream was too far away. The person who had written the book was a god, it wasn't a person.

Rita Dove

Harper Lee

Lois McMaster Bujold

The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.

Robertson Davies

Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore?

Henry Ward Beecher

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.

James Wright

I took every chance I could to meet with U.S. soldiers. I talked with them and read the books they gave me about the war. I decided I needed to return to my country and join with them - active duty soldiers and Vietnam Veterans in particular - to try and end the war.

Jane Fonda

We have never heard the devil's side of the story, God wrote all the book.

Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Anatole France

Angela Carter

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades.

Christopher Morley

Doris Lessing

Readers are of two sorts: one who goes carefully through a book, and the other who as carefully lets the book go through him.

Douglas William Jerrold

Femi Jacobs

Once you start trying to do things by the book in this country, they start looking for NYSC certification.

Waje

Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.

Ezra Pound

I wrote the book because I wanted to be able to share some things that I had learned and as pompous as that may sound, as you get to a certain point in life, you figure so what am I doing?

Goldie Hawn

It is written in the Book of Usable Minutes That all things have their center in their dying....

John Ashbery

All books are divisible into two classes: the books of the hours, and the books of all Time.

John Ruskin

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

John Ruskin

The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other balance their lives.

Joyce Brothers

No company like good books, especially the book of God.

Matthew Henry

The book of nature which we have to read is written by the finger of God.

Michael Faraday

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