Book Quotes - Page 22

• If you read the book, you're not a journalist. You're some impostor! No journalist actually does any work.

  Tucker Max

  Doe, Journalist, Ifs

  Source: www.complex.com

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• If i write a book it will probably be a book about how not to use the internet or a book of poetry.

  Misha Collins

  Writing, Use, Internet

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• Get a book, so you know where to put your fingers. Otherwise it would be tough to learn. Also you have to fight through getting callouses on your fingers because it hurts, you are pressing your fingers on metal strings, they will hurt at first until you start building up callouses.

  Joan Jett

  Hurt, Fighting, Building Up

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• I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my grandmother used to read. They have value like Paxil has value, but there's plenty of them in the world already. There's a shortage of confronting, stimulating, exciting books.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Grandmother, Comfort, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• For Christians, the first of books is the Gospel and the Rosary is actually the abridgement of the Gospel.

  Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

  Christian, Rosary, Firsts

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• Anything that looks like an idea is probably just something that has accumulated, like dust. It looks like I have ideas because I do books that are all on the same subject. That is just because the pictures have piled up on that subject. Finally I realize that I am really interested in it. The pictures make me realize that I am interested in something.

  Lee Friedlander

  Photography, Dust, Ideas

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• I realized that my book readings were boring me. I was going to go up there and read a passage and sleepwalk through the whole event and I needed to make it more interesting. I wanted to be running and jumping and do something so that the event would be so exciting. I had to trick myself into having fun every time.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Running, Fun, Reading

  Source: content.time.com

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• I think readers are just looking for things that maybe they recognize or can relate to in the books.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Reader, Relate

  "El Templo" Interview with Lucía Gayo, www.eltemplodelasmilpuertas.com. June 2013.

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• My dad is a retired Shakespeare professor, my mother a retired classicist. Suffice to say I grew up in a house full of books, where reading was encouraged if not required.

  Sarah Dessen

  Mother, Dad, Reading

  "Author Interview: Sarah Dessen on Just Listen". Interview with Cynthia Leitich Smith, cynthialeitichsmith.blogspot.com. December 12, 2006.

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• I think as a writer one of the benefits is that you can put things that you're interested in into your books. I always have put a lot of food and restaurants because I was a waitress and I love to eat.

  Sarah Dessen

  Thinking, Benefits, Waitress

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• I'm incredibly flattered when people tell me that my books helped them through high school. Because of my own experience, the thought that something I wrote might help someone who felt the way I did when I was a teen...that's huge. It awes me.

  Sarah Dessen

  School, People, Might

  Source: blogs.idahostatesman.com

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• A man is like a two-story house. The first floor is equipped with an entrance and a living room. On the second floor is every family member's room. They enjoy listening to music and reading books. On the first underground floor is the ruin of people's memories. The room filled with darkness is the second underground floor.

  Haruki Murakami

  Memories, Reading, Men

  Source: yositeru.blogspot.com

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• My first company was MicroSolutions. I worked 20 hours a day. I didn't take a vacation for 7 years. I didn't even take the time to read a fiction book. It was all about work. When I sold it, I promised myself I would never wear a watch and only wear a suit to weddings, funerals and to meet the President.

  Mark Cuban

  Vacation, Years, Funeral

  Interview with Ryan Babikian, elitedaily.com. May 30, 2012.

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• In fact, every day I'll read a chapter of some art book. I don't know why. It's just a habit.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Art, Facts, Habit

  Source: www.theaquarian.com

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• The money is in television. Books are not the dominant medium of our time, so fewer people will create them. In a sad way, books have become a form of "comfort food" we expect to lull us to sleep.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Sleep, People, Comfort

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• Books can create a depth of story, a background of information and ideas, that televison and movies can't. Sure, the television shows may shock, but only on a superficial level. They'd never risk market share to really explore the issues. They report, but don't analyze or suggest any new ways for living our lives.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Ideas, Issues, Risk

  Source: www.bookslut.com

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• As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan.

  Jane Goodall

  Children, Holiday, Drs

  "The lady and the chimps". Wanderlust Travel Magazine Interview, www.wanderlust.co.uk. April 10, 2009.

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• All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Pastor, Sermons

  Source: smashinginterviews.com

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• My first book really did change my life. It allowed me to fully express myself. There was a sense that I was worth something as an artist.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Artist, Firsts, Changing My Life

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Very often, people who actually pick up a book of mine for the first time are kind of surprised. And I get these letters saying, well, who knew that you were good, you know?

  Salman Rushdie

  People, Letters, Firsts

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There is a story in the book Night Shift, called 'The Mangler,' about a laundry machine that takes on a sort of malignant life. I worked in a laundry for about a year and a half after I got out of college. It was the only job I could find to support my wife and our first child. There was a fellow there that had no hands or forearms. He simply had hooks. This is one of the things that they don't tell you about when you become management. You have to wear a tie. It was this fellow's tie that did him in.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Children, Night

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• The first movie I can remember seeing was The Creature From The Black Lagoon. And, I can remember hearing a radio play of Ray Bradbury's Mars Is Heaven. And when I cut my teeth on comic books, they were not the easy ones of today like Spiderman, Superman and The Hulk. they were Tales Of The Crypt, The Vaultkeeper, and that sort of thing.

  Stephen King

  Cutting, Play, Heaven

  Interview with Phil Konstantin, americanindian.net. July 1987.

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• I'm not a celebrity or near celebrity. Sometimes people will say, "You're famous" and that stops me right there. What does fame mean? Fame is in the eye of the beholder. So, if somebody wants to call me 'famous', that's their business. I'm just me, a guy who messes around with airplanes and writes books that make sense to him.

  Richard Bach

  Mean, Eye, Writing

  Source: rbach.proboards.com

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• I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident and screeching about the limitations of this world and all the trouble we can get ourselves into.

  Richard Bach

  Thinking, World, Trouble

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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• The books remind us that way down deep in our hearts, part of us knows that we are creatures of light and we cannot be touched or destroyed by anything made out of atoms or destroyed at all - that light is indestructible. And we may reflect that and express that in multiple trillions of discrete ways, but nevertheless, that indestructible sense of joyful capacity to express life and express love is always there.

  Richard Bach

  Heart, Love Is, Light

  Interview with Michael Peter Langevin, www.inner-growth.info.

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