Book Quotes - Page 26

• I believe strongly in an author's moral responsibility. But his first obligation is to write good books.

  Orhan Pamuk

  Believe, Writing, Responsibility

  "SPIEGEL Interview with Orhan Pamuk 'No One Drives Me into Exile'". Interview with Dieter Bednarz and Annette Grossbongardt, www.spiegel.de. May 2, 2007.

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• I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world and I want the scars of that engagement to be left in the language.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Writing, Mean, Engagement

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

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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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• Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

  Aleksandar Hemon

  Solidarity, Reader, Connected

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

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• I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and make a deal - because I think cinema should come from cinema. I never adapted anything. Beautiful books are beautiful books, that's it. I don't know why we should transform them.

  Agnes Varda

  Beautiful, Stars, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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• I have respect for literature. If he found the words, if she found the words - this is a book!

  Agnes Varda

  Literature, Found, Ifs

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. October 1, 2009.

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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 find Japanese books quite baffling when I read them in translation. It's only with Haruki Murakami that I find Japanse fiction that I can understand and relate to. He's a very international writer.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Fiction, Relate, International

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Throughout my career I've struggled to encourage people to read my books on a more metaphorical level. I'm less attached to my settings than, for example, Saul Bellow. The setting of a novel for me is just a part of the technique. I choose it at the end.

  Kazuo Ishiguro

  Careers, People, Technique

  "I Remain Fascinated by Memory". Interview with Michael Scott Moore and Michael Sontheimer, www.spiegel.de. October 5, 2005.

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• I get my ideas for books from my own kids and sometimes from other children. Often when I am telling stories I will say: I am going to make up a new story.

  Robert Munsch

  Children, Kids, Ideas

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• Most of my books came from when I was telling stories.

  Robert Munsch

  Stories, Telling Stories

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• If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up.

  Robert Munsch

  Real, Writing, Kids

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured essays and poems from teens.Finding the right authors for the series has been no easy feat, mostly because I'm looking for a perfect blend of a teen girl with an interesting story or hook, fantastic writing talent, and the confidence to commit to writing a 30,000+ word book in a matter of months. It's a huge commitment and I recognize that, so the fit has to be there from all these different angles.

  Deborah Reber

  Girl, Teenage, Real

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• I once wrote a book on women in science. I realized when I was interviewing them that they were the equivalent of writers, or anyone else who tries to make art out of life. Through science they had reached the expressive.

  Vivian Gornick

  Art, Trying, I Realized

  "We knew we were not liberated and were never going to be liberated. But we knew what liberation was". The Believer Interview, believermagblog.wordpress.com. March 24, 2014.

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• In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what this Iranian from France has to say in her comics. I guess that's good. My the books are coming out in other countries. And each time, they discover something different to be interested in.

  Marjane Satrapi

  Country, Israel, Iran

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I just hate the whole idea of labeling anything as a comedy. If you tell me something's funny, I'll want to rebel against it. When I go to a bookstore and see books categorized as humor, I get furious. Don't tell me that a book is funny. Let me decide if it's funny. It's the same with sitcoms. You call something a sitcom and people expect it to be funny. And that ruins everything.

  Amy Sedaris

  Hate, Ideas, People

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.ericspitznagel.com. March 2004.

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• I just read everything I could get my hands on. I taught myself to read or my mother taught me. Who knows how I learned to read? It was before I went to school, so I would go to the library and just take things off the shelf. My mother had to sign a piece of paper saying I could take adult books.

  Joan Didion

  Mother, School, Hands

  Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 3, 2006.

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• What I always try to do in all my books is to make the stories such that if you don't agree with me politically or you're not interested in the thematics, the story will still keep you turning the pages.

  China Mieville

  Trying, Stories, Pages

  Interview with Lou Anders, believermag.com. April 1, 2005.

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• I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."

  Jessica Simpson

  Art, Inspiration, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• It's just the garbage in/garbage out trick. If you're not taking any fiction in, good or bad, then how can you be spitting any back out (good or bad)? I can't even imagine trying to write without reading. Really, I can hardly write a novel at all if I'm not reading just book after book.

  Stephen Graham Jones

  Reading, Writing, Trying

  Source: lbc.typepad.com

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• I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.

  Greg Graffin

  Thinking, Lasts, Next

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Writing a book is quite an undertaking and I wouldn't want to do it just to do it.

  Laverne Cox

  Writing, Want, Undertakings

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Read these 3 books - Crossing the Chasm, Innovators Dilemma and Behind the Cloud.

  Aaron Levie

  Clouds, Building, Dilemma

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