Book Quotes - Page 27

• The world of conceptualized ideas is quite wonderful, even when it's - like Aristotle's Physics - an outmoded book. The physics is not true. But the reasoning is dazzling.

  William H. Gass

  Ideas, World, Physics

  Interview with Stephen Schenkenberg, www.believermag.com. November, 2005.

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• There are two schools. The school where you go and open a book, and then there's the school of life. When you learn hands-on, often you don't understand why you do what you do and what's the word for that action.

  Cesar Millan

  School, Hands, Two

  "Cesar Millan Interview" by David Morris, www.askmen.com. February 27, 2015.

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• As an author, one of the most important things I think you can do once you've written a novel is step back. When the book is out, it belongs to the readers and you can't stand there breathing over their shoulders.

  Madeline Miller

  Thinking, Breathing, Important

  Source: www.glamour.com

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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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• When I go into a bookstore I always look for books by John Fante. If they are out-of-stock on one of his titles, I tell the clerk to order what is missing. I do it because I want people to read my father's work.

  John Fante

  Father, Order, People

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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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• Chapter books are often written in series and kids have come to expect that they'll come out once a year, so publishers want to keep the momentum going. It's the kind of art I love to make, except that the time frame is really nutty.

  Carson Ellis

  Art, Kids, Years

  Source: www.revelinnewyork.com

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• I do tend to look at my books in many ways as conceptual fiction, even to the point where I think the author's photograph is part of the package. And I have gone out of my way to select the photograph to connect to the subject matter of each book.

  Bret Easton Ellis

  Thinking, Looks, Gone

  Interview with Joshua Klein, www.avclub.com. March 17, 1999.

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• I think Visions of Cody is the most radical book in terms of poetic stretch and the way Jack Kerouac is able to incorporate documentation and incorporate the live tape recording of Neal and so on.

  Anne Waldman

  Thinking, Vision, Tape

  Source: logosjournal.com

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• I've always had a fondness for language... English. Not that I use it correctly but I like words. I like books and I like poetry.. I like the written word... and the sung word.

  Joel Plaskett

  Use, Language, Written Word

  Source: thewiremegazine.blogspot.com

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• There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Style, Not Interested

  Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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• I do believe, especially with the character of Batman, that the tone and the mood of the book is 80% of the job right there. And the more control I had over the story, the more control I had over the tone and the mood.

  David Finch

  Jobs, Believe, Character

  Source: ifanboy.com

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• If you want to write a book that's very successful and famous, then it's hard. If you just want to get published, all you have to do is convince an editor that your idea will make them money.

  Kate Cary

  Writing, Successful, Editors

  Source: www.teenink.com

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• Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Insane, Hallucinations, Study

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• In recent years I have become more interested in making the critical ideas that I love teaching and talking about available in more forms, because many people prefer to engage with ideas in films, infographics, comics and other forms that are not traditional books or articles.

  Dean Spade

  Teaching, Talking, Years

  "On Normal Life". Interview with Natalie Oswin, societyandspace.org. January 15, 2014.

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• I like to co-author books to learn from those I write with.

  Dave Ulrich

  Writing

  "Dave and Wendy Ulrich: An interview by Bob Morris". Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. August 19, 2011.

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• When I'm assembling a book I concentrate as though I were writing a poem. A truly imagined arrangement will indicate gaps and generate new poems. I re-read the new poems in my folder in the hope that this might happen.

  Michael Longley

  Writing, Might, Gaps

  Source: www.poetrymagazines.org.uk

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• Your inspiration is better if it comes from many different sources and your sensibilities will transform all those influences and inspiration into your own visual world. It's like reading the book instead of watching the movie.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Inspiration, Reading, Different

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• I have a very big apartment in Paris but you can't really move around there anymore; piles of books everywhere. I don't want any more books. I have too many books; sometimes I have to buy another copy of a book that I know I have somewhere in my house or office because I can't find it.

  Peter Lindbergh

  Moving, Paris, Office

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• Nobody had books at home. My dad was a very educated person, so he would have books at home. All Spanish books. That helped. Most of my homies had no books at home.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Dad, Home, Homies

  Source: bluemesareview.org

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• I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time.

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Reading, Literature

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• I think the book is less emotional than the film. With the film, the emotions are much more raw and in front. In the book, they are kind of ironized and seen through comedy.

  Salman Rushdie

  Emotional, Thinking, Comedy

  "Salman Rushdie Goes Hollywood". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. April 23, 2013.

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• As we breathe and live, have a conversation, and you look in someone's eyes, and you see a sunset or have an argument or read a book or see a painting or whatever you do, it influences you. And as you live your art, it changes and grows just like you and your soul or whatever you want to call it. For me, it's never-ending, I call it "the organizer of chaos." That's what I do with this and I present it in a way that I dream. So basically, I'm just sharing my dreams with all of you.

  Jared Leto

  Dream, Art, Sunset

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• I think they're really linked. I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors.

  Tatiana de Rosnay

  Thinking, Long, Important

  Source: collider.com

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