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"Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions."
"Before my book, the most common assessment of Eleanor Marx is "Yes, she's great but basically she's in the shadow of her father." Absolute bollocks. She fought him, she resisted, and she was not a kind of trocadateur of his ideas."
"Change is the one unavoidable, irresistible, ongoing reality of the universe. To us, that makes it the most powerful reality, and just another word for God. Earthseed: The Books of the Living Lauren Oya Olamina"
"To get along with God, Consider the consequences of your behavior. Earthseed: The Books of the Living"
"I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book."
"I had Elvis' number in my book and I never called it."
"One's attitude toward life makes every possible difference in one's living. You know, you don't have to study a thousand ancient books to discover that fact. But sometimes it needs to be pointed out again that life doesn't change so much as you. ... The day when you stop building your own environment, when you stop building your own surroundings, when you stop waving a magic hand and gracing everything around you with magic and beauty, things cease to be magical, things cease to be beautiful. Well, maybe you've just neglected somewhere back in the last few years to wave that magic hand."
"Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used."
"I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed."
"The same way I want them to take me seriously. I want them to look at my music as kind of like an open book to who I am inside."
"It smelled like aging wood and creosote, plastic book covers, and old paper. Old paper, which my mom used to say was the smell of time itself."
"My mom was there, in some form, in some sense, in some universe. My mom was still my mom, even if she only lived in books and door locks and the smell of fried tomatoes and old paper. She lived."
"You need help, and that's what books are for."
"I wanted to find a place to hide from all of it, where the nightmares and the rivers and reality couldn't find me. For me, that place was always inside a book."
"Here’s the million-dollar question: how are you going to write this book if you’re afraid to start writing? Give your friend Doubt a name, and then block his calls."
"Writing a book is hard. It turns out, writing a second book is twice as hard."
"The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I naturally start at Chapter 3."
"A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while."
"Until then, you can do what everyone else your age does. Listen to music. Watch the television. Just keep your nose away from those books."
"Coming into your powers can be a very confusing time. Perhaps there is a book on the subject. If you like, we can go see Marian." Yeah, right. Choices and Changes. A Modern Girl's Guide to Casting. My Mom Wants to Kill Me: A Self-Help Book For Teens."
