#books

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it. ↗

— Ahmet Zappa

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To read too many books is harmful. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject. ↗

— David Gest

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I was in Paris at an English-language bookstore. I picked up a volume of Dickinson's poetry. I came back to my hotel, read 2,000 of her poems and immediately began composing in my head. I wrote down the melodies even before I got to a piano. ↗

— Gordon Getty

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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed. ↗

— J. Paul Getty

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I have always been drawn to coming-of-age stories and books and movies featuring compelling young characters. ↗

— Emily Giffin

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I really try to focus on my books and readers. ↗

— Emily Giffin

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Despite having written five books, I worry that I have not written the right kinds of books, or that perhaps I have dedicated too much of my life to writing, and have therefore neglected other aspects of my being. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. ↗

— Fay Godwin

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It was 1966 by the time I started taking pictures seriously and books, newspapers and magazines of the time were full of great pictures that helped to inspire me. ↗

— Fay Godwin

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