Patti Smith Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• I have loved books all my life. There is nothing more beautiful in our material world than the book.

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  Beautiful, Book, World

• I dreamed of having a book of my own, of writing one that I could put on a shelf.

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  Book, Writing, Shelves

  "The Saturday interview: Patti Smith". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 21, 2011.

• Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don't abandon the book. There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

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  Beautiful, Book, Acceptance

  "National Book Award for Patti Smith". National Book Award Acceptance speech, www.nytimes.com. November 17, 2010.

• I immersed myself in books and rock 'n' roll, the adolescent salvation.

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  Book, Rocks, Rock N Roll

• I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.

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  Book, Oregon, Portland

  "Patti Smith interview: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

• Just because I've extricated myself from religion doesn't mean I'm not interested in the scriptures. I look at the Bible as itself. It's a holy book, it has incredible literature in it and beautiful poetry.

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  Beautiful, Book, Mean

  Source: thefilmexperience.net

• The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.

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  Dirty, Book, Thinking

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

• I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.

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  Book, Childhood, World

  "The life and deaths of Patti Smith". Interview with Amy Raphael, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2008.

• I like making records right now 'cause I can express myself that way in a very immediate, physical sense. You can always write a book, but you can't always do a rock 'n' roll record that's gonna work.

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  Book, Writing, Rocks

  Source: www.oceanstar.com

• 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.

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  Children, Book, Years

  "Patti Smith: 'I love Portland ... it's a real book town'". Interview with Jeff Baker, www.oregonlive.com. January 31, 2010.

• I wanted to see who this Yeats person was, and I said to my mother, 'I want a book by this person.' And she bought it for me, and a lot of it was over my head, but I had it.

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  Mother, Book, Want

• I want to keep my life as unfettered as possible. So maybe I'll just pretend to get rare books from my catalogue, and not really get them.

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  Book, Want, Catalogues

  "The Private World of Patti Smith". Interview with Joan Juliet Buck, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 30, 2015.

• I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

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  Girl, Book, People

• The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

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  Book, Two, Inspired

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