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If only I could manage, without annoyance to my family, to get imprisoned for 10 years, "without hard labour," and with the use of books and writing materials, it would be simply delightful!

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One of the things I learned, one of the strangest things, is how to think. There was nothing else to do. I couldn't see people, or go for a walk in the forest. All I had was my head and my books, and I thought a lot.

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Tags : Abraham Pais Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes

A reader is doubly guilty of bad manners against an author when he praises his second book at the expense of his first (or vice versa) and then expects the author to be grateful for what he has done.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Book Quotes , Grateful Quotes

I am a person that is very curious about what is going on in the world and there are a lot of subjects to write about, you meet a lot of interesting people. But one idea will be there and it will show up without any logic. It is a book that has been written in my heart before it is written into sentences.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Book Quotes , Writing Quotes

I don't know if the books are making the world a much better place. I don't write with that objective. What I know is that I see my readers creating a critical mass so we can at least understand this world in a different way.

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An unread book is just a block of paper.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Block Quotes , Book Quotes

a good reader makes a good book

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Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Book Quotes , Good Book Quotes

In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.

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Tags : Alan Dean Foster Quotes , Book Quotes , Character Quotes

He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.

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Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Book Quotes , Library Quotes

Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal more than the writer meant.

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Tags : Lewis Carroll Quotes , Book Quotes , Mean Quotes

The world is a great book, of which they that never stir from home read only a page.

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Tags : Saint Augustine Quotes , Life Quotes , Book Quotes

I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.

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Books became my world because the world I was in was very hard.

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Tags : Alice Walker Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

I loved to read, still do, and it seemed that the writing was a result of the love of books and reading and libraries.

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Tags : Adriana Trigiani Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

There are many books which we think we have read when we have not. There are, at least, many that we think we remember when we do not. An original picture was, perhaps, imprinted upon the brain, but it has changed with our own changing minds. We only remember our remembrance.

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Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Memories Quotes , Book Quotes

In other words, the percentage change in book value in any given year is likely to be reasonably close to that year's change in intrinsic value.

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Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win.

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Tags : Adam Young Quotes , Book Quotes , Reading Quotes

While fiction is often impossible, it should not be implausible.

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Tags : Aristotle Quotes , Book Quotes , Fiction Quotes

Books should, not Business, entertain the Light; And Sleep, as undisturb'd as Death, the Night.

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Tags : Abraham Cowley Quotes , Book Quotes , Sleep Quotes

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

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Tags : Charles Dickens Quotes , Rain Quotes , Book Quotes