I believe the book should be something you protect yourself from by returning to your life. But it has threatened your life.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
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Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
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A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
I try to avoid having thoughts. They lead to other thoughts, and—if you’re not careful—those lead to actions. Actions make you tired.… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
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The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I've never wanted to be a witch, but an alchemist, now that's a different matter. To invent this wizard world, I've learned… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Wrong' training can be a very innocent thing. Consider a father who allows his child to read good books. That child may… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
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We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I could write a book describing what differentiates the high performance person from all the rest! Hell, I could write volumes! — Dan Pena Copy Share Image
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As Tony [Blair] said in his book, Gordon [Brown] was brilliant and impossible. If he'd just been one of those things, the… — Alastair Campbell Copy Share Image
The anger is useful too because when things about the world upset you, that is really a fertile feeling to channel into… — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
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Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning. — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
I find it hard to think of myself as selling books. I don't even have a Web site. I want to sit… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
That's a long way of saying no, I'm always too bound up in thinking about the characters in whatever I'm working on… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
![“The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45 [Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model], and yet it remains a book of some interest…” quote by John Maynard Keynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1df/john-maynard-keynes-1380_backgrounds_the-book-as-it-stands-seems-to-me-to-be_646533.jpg)
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