"... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)"
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"I highly recommend reading this book, and applying the NVC process it teaches. It is a significant first step towards changing our communication and creating a compassionate world."
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"All you need is the blues. To me, the blues is the book, it's the bible, it's everything."
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"But then, look at me. My brain is incorrectly formed, and I'm shaped like a tube. Plus, I'm an alcoholic, a "survivor" of childhood sexual abuse, was raised in a cult and have no education. So, really, if you think about it, the only thing that separates me from the guy with the stinky foot and no teeth is a book deal and some cologne."
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"I love to both give and receive very old books."
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"I read a lot of science books - I love cosmology, quantum theory, particle physics. So my idea of a great read would probably put you directly into a coma."
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"When I first thought of being a writer I had visions of stacks of books in stores with my name on them, that sort of thing. But I never imagined this would be the reaction."
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"A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even though that's what it's all about."
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"It's weird - sort of not terribly wise - to take a book that was successful and then change its cover."
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"The most important thing for a writer to do is to write. It really doesn't matter what you write as long as you are able to write fluidly, very quickly, very effortlessly. It needs to become not second nature but really first nature to you. And read; you need to read and you need to read excellent books and then some bad books. Not as many bad books, but some bad books, so that you can see what both look like and why both are what they are."
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"I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's okay. But I would write a novel that couldn't be a film."
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"Personally, I am dead against the burning of books."
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"I was given some Harry Potter books by a young friend. I wanted to know why young people liked it so much. And I noted that there were some values in Harry Potter that are common to many books that are popular all over the world. In the end, I think people prefer the good to win, rather than the bad."
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"I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time."
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"I'm really changed by my research. This book ["This Changes Everything" ]is very different from what I set out to write."
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"The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain was shared."
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"If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book."
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"He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand .... Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment of books; he would find some passage which he could not understand in one book, and he would get another on that subject .... There was no order in his reading; but there was order in what remained of it in his mind."
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"The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it form any conception of the commercial prosperity of the firm in question."
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"The great bell of Beaulieu was ringing. Far away through the forest might be heard its musical clangor and swell."
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