#boo

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you. ↗

— Mortimer Adler

#case #get #good #how #many

The focus on my appearance has really surprised me. I've always been a size 14 to 16, I don't care about clothes, I'd rather spend my money on cigarettes and booze. ↗

— Adele

#always #appearance #been #booze #care

I wrote in the book very specifically what I wanted to write about, period, and left it at. ↗

— Kate Adie

#book #i #left #period #specifically

The type of fig leaf which each culture employs to cover its social taboos offers a twofold description of its morality. It reveals that certain unacknowledged behavior exists and it suggests the form that such behavior takes. ↗

— Freda Adler

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For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#dealt #i #never #people #really

People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#books #exception #make #normally #people

Whenever you have two characters in a book, whether it's a novel or nonfiction, you run the risk that the reader is going to like one more than the other. They're going to read one chapter and say, 'I can't wait to get back to the other guy.' ↗

— Mitch Albom

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I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#government #had #hadn #hands-on #i

Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy. ↗

— Lloyd Alexander

#books #fantasy #form #most #written

I think all of those things, but certainly the booze really brought out the really unreasonable side of me, and I just didn't want to revisit that place again. ↗

— Rick Allen

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