#book

I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book. ↗

— Bill Gates

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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, and in rising up in the air, but then you're at the mercy of those holding you down, and if it's your older brother, or Paul Wolfowitz, they leap up, so that you crash down and get hurt. ↗

— Anne Lamott

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Chum was a British boy's weekly which, at the end of the year was bound into a single huge book; and the following Christmas parents bought it as Christmas presents for male children. ↗

— A. E. van Vogt

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I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it. ↗

— Ralph Fiennes

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At the evident risk of seeming ridiculous, I want to begin by saying that I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously. I hope this isn't too melodramatic or self-centred a way of saying that I attempt to write as if I did not care what reviewers said, what peers thought, or what prevailing opinions may be. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#death #independence #nadine-gordimer #writing #death

If you think you have it tough, read history books. ↗

— Bill Maher

#history #history books #read #story books #think

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative. ↗

— Ken Follett

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The clue to book jacket photography is to look friendly and approachable, but not too glamorous. ↗

— Antonia Fraser

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Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves. ↗

— Shelby Foote

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If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer. ↗

— Anne Frank

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