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Book Quotes by Anne Lamott
- Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how…
- And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the…
- No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get…
- I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they…
- Being on a book tour is like being on the seesaw when you're a little kid. The excitement is in having someone to play with,…
- I try to write the books I would love to come upon that are honest, concerned with real lives, human hearts, spiritual transformation, families, secrets,…
- E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five…
- For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat,…
- Two things put me in the spirit to give. One is that I have come to think of everyone with whom I come into contast…
- Some people may have thought that this book was too personal, too confessional. But what these people think about me is none of my business.
- For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food.
- This is one thing they forget to mention in most child-rearing books, that at times you will just lose your mind. Period.
- We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.
- Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report written on birds that he'd…
- Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any…
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- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
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- I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my… — Isaac Asimov
- I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin
- The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except in a… — David Attenborough
- I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
- Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
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- Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But many in… — Margaret Atwood