Book Quotes - Page 25

• [Writing] books is really fun because your "voice" is pretty undiluted. There is a very direct connection between yourself and your audience. You will have an editor, but their job is to help you clarify or improve your voice, not change it.

  Liz Tuccillo

  Jobs, Fun, Writing

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

  Julia Alvarez

  Imagination, Passionate, Alive

  Source: ncac.org

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• It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.

  Julia Alvarez

  Writing, Passionate, Way

  Source: ncac.org

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• Reading is a way to take in the difficult situations and understand them. The whole point of reading a book in class is to have discussion about what these situations are like.

  Julia Alvarez

  Reading, Difficult Situations, Class

  Source: ncac.org

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• I consider my greatest strength my complete and utter faith in a loving God. Strong family values are also important and I do not hesitate to write them into my books. My reader mail tells me this is something that readers especially like about my books.

  Debbie Macomber

  Strong, Writing, Important

  Source: bookpage.com

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• I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.

  Molly Ringwald

  Mean, Thinking, Stopping

  "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

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• The wonderful thing about books is you never run out of them, you can just keep going. So I'm always finding new writers, or old writers that I just happen not to have read.

  Molly Ringwald

  Running, Wonderful, Findings

  "Molly Ringwald’s Still Pretty in Pink". Interview with Adam Weinstein, www.motherjones.com. April 19, 2010.

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• The way to stop feeling guilty is to read stuff - I'm not saying my book, but works by Bertrand Russell or Oscar Wilde, people who weren't losers but who didn't believe in the work ethic, and argued this thing about guilt or wrote philosophy about idleness.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Philosophy, Believe, People

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Writing a book is a brilliant thing because once you've finished it, you've done it, and there's the potential for it to go on earning you a living without you doing any more work on it. It's absolutely ideal for an idler.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Writing, Idlers, Done

  "How To Be Idle: An Interview with Tom Hodgkinson". Interview with Katie Renz, www.motherjones.com. June 8, 2005.

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• Ron Karenga wrote a book back in 1968, and in that book, he said that the reason, part of his motivation for starting Kwanzaa was because he felt that Christianity was the white man religion, and he didn't like Jews, and so he made up this lie. And he called it an African holiday because he was concerned that if he didn't call it an African holiday, that black Americans would not participate in it.

  Tucker Carlson

  Motivation, Lying, Holiday

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Reality is overrated to me. Everyone spends enough time on the computer, eating, going out to bars. Why do I need to read a book about that?

  Blake Butler

  Reality, Enough Time, Needs

  Interview with David Rice, logger.believermag.com. October 16, 2014.

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• Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I liked, to shape things that I liked into new shapes.

  Jonathan Lethem

  People, Attention, Shapes

  Interview with Peter Andrey Smith, www.believermag.com. May 2012.

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• Yet I'm making a book and I'm going to care immensely about what words get bound in the pages, and I want the object to look good. I won't believe in it and it won't be real to me until there's a finished book I can hold.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Real, Believe, Looks

  Interview with Peter Andrey Smith, www.believermag.com. May 2012.

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• I hate libraries for the way they put stickers on things. I don't approve of folding over pages, or of writing in books. God, forget scissors - that's beyond the pale.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Hate, Writing, Library

  Interview with Peter Andrey Smith, www.believermag.com. May 2012.

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• Each of my book arrives at a form and a style that is appropriate to the subject.

  Geoff Dyer

  Style, Form, Subjects

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I've read books in school that were written by ideological rote - they were brainwashers. Therefore, any art, any literature, that has a clearly defined political goal is repellent to me.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Art, School, Goal

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• I like the idea of a book being a democratic space which readers enter, carrying their own thoughts, and participate in a conversation, or experience of grace.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Ideas, Space, Grace

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• To me, the solidarity of readers is far more important than the solidarity of writers, particularly since readers in fact find ways to connect over a book or books, whatever they may be.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Important, May, Way

  Interview with Colum McCann, www.believermag.com. January, 2010.

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• My books are always about someone obtaining a power to replace the previous sort of power that they held.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Obtaining

  Source: www.nightmare-magazine.com

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• Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  "Is It Bill Bailey?". Comedy, Music, 1998.

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• Whenever I see an autobiography for sale in the book store i just flip to the about the author section. I'm like, "Done, next!"

  Demetri Martin

  Funny, Humor, Done

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• One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Humor, Black

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I've just finished my book, I wrote it on penguins. Come to think of it, paper would have been better.

  Milton Jones

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• Every now and then I'll read a book, I'll be so proud of myself, I'll try and squeeze it into conversation. People will be like, "Hey Jim, how ya do-" "I read a book! Two hundred and fifty pages!" "That's great, what was it about?" "No idea! Took me three years!"

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Years

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• I'm writing a book about Siamese Twins that are attached at the nose. It's called: Stop Staring at Me!

  Zach Galifianakis

  Funny, Writing, Humor

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