Quotes and Sayings About Book
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I was an early reader, and my grandmother, who as a child had been forbidden to read by a father who believed books to be frivolous time-wasters, delighted in putting her favorite volumes into her grandchildren's hands.
-- Alan Bradley -
As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.
-- Alan BradleySource : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.63, Delacorte Press
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I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
-- Alan Davies -
In one book, CACHALOT, just for my own amusement, every character is based directly on someone I have known.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
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I have a bad tendency to get rapidly bored with my own material, so rewriting is hard for me. I mean, I already know the story and would rather read something new.
-- Alan Dean Foster -
I've thought of publishing a book of my hate mail, but I don't own the rights to the letters.
-- Alan Dershowitz -
My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
-- Alan Furst -
You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
-- Alan Furst -
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I don't just want my books to be about the '30s and '40s. I want them to read as if they had been written then. I think of them as '40s novels, written in the conservative narrative past.
-- Alan Furst -
I expect that my readers have been to Europe, I expect them to have some feeling for a foreign language, I expect them to have read books - there are a lot of people like that! That's my audience.
-- Alan Furst -
My attitude is that if anybody of any age wants to read a book, let them, but I do think that no child would want to read Boneland.
-- Alan GarnerSource : "Alan Garner: a life in books". Interview with Alison Flood, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2012.
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I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.
-- Alan Garner -
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she kept sliding down, in small half-willing surrenders, till she was a heap, with the book held tiringly above her face.
-- Alan HollinghurstSource : Alan Hollinghurst (2011). “The Stranger's Child”, p.6, Pan Macmillan
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I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.
-- Alan Hollinghurst -
I had the fortune or misfortune to learn how to read fluently starting at the age of three. So I had read maybe 150 books by the time I hit 1st grade. And I already knew that the teachers were lying to me.
-- Alan Kay -
The ability to absorb a book and make someone else's words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.
-- Alan King -
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
-- Alan Lightman -
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
-- Alan Lightman -
The Book of Telling tells of a woman's journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process, an unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
-- Alan Lightman -
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences. Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
-- Alan Lightman -
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
-- Alan Lightman -
I knew Bobby Dylan back in the days when he lived in the village. He used to come and see me and sing songs for me, saying they ought to go into my next collected book on American folk music.
-- Alan Lomax -
To me, all creativity is magic. Ideas start out in the empty void of your head - and they end up as a material thing, like a book you can hold in your hand. That is the magical process. It's an alchemical thing. Yes, we do get the gold out of it but that's not the most important thing. It's the work itself.
-- Alan Moore -
When I was working upon the ABC books, I wanted to show different ways that mainstream comics could viably have gone, that they didn't have to follow 'Watchmen' and the other 1980s books down this relentlessly dark route. It was never my intention to start a trend for darkness. I'm not a particularly dark individual.
-- Alan Moore -
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The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.
-- Alan PerlisSource : "Epigrams on Programming". ACM "SIGPLAN" Notices 17 (9), (pp. 7-13), September 1982.
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Many people are being persuaded that they cannot be considered intelligent or well educated if they insist on the doctrine of the verbal inspiration of the Book. Let me say to you that truth has always lived with the minority; what the majority says at a given moment is usually wrong. The crowd one day cried, "Crucify him," and the whole world united to murder the Son of God, because in their ignorance they knew Him not.
-- Alan Redpath -
Actors are agents of change. A film, a piece of theater, a piece of music, or a book can make a difference. It can change the world.
-- Alan RickmanSource : "Alan Rickman on 'Nobel Son'". Interview with Aaron Hillis, www.ifc.com. December 04, 2008.
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Three children have become adults since a phone call with Jo Rowling, containing one small clue, persuaded me that there was more to Snape than an unchanging costume, and that even though only three of the books were out at that time, she held the entire massive but delicate narrative in the surest of hands.
-- Alan RickmanSource : "Every Snape scene in chronological order shows his anguished evolution" by Rob Dean, www.avclub.com. January 15, 2016.
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I didnt really grow up a comic book fanatic. I was a big baseball player, and my passion in life, in third grade, was collecting baseball cards. That was my childhood thing.
-- Alan RitchsonSource : "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.
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I didn't really grow up a comic book fanatic.
-- Alan RitchsonSource : "Alan Ritchson Exclusive Interview SMALLVILLE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 19, 2010.