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    The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

 

Albert Einstein

    If pregnancy were a book they would cut the last two chapters. Nora Ephron

    No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me.

 

Truman Capote
 


    I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour.

 

 

John Irving

    I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

 

Jo Brand

 

 

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

 

Mitch Hedberg

 

    I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. Tim Vine
 

 

 

 

    The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.

 Saint Augustine

If there's a book you really want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.

 

Toni Morrison

 

 

    When I'm writing a book, you can't think about your audience. You're going to be in big trouble if you think about it. You're got to write from deep inside.

 

 Judy Blume

 

    A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.

 

John Milton
 

 

    We'd never expect to understand a piece of music on one listen, but we tend to believe we've read a book after reading it just once.

 

 Ali Smith


A book is kind of like a river; I simply jump in and start swimming.

 

Melody Carlson


 

A book should serve as the ax for the frozen sea within us.

 

Franz Kafka
 

 

Dreams are illustrations from the book your soul is writing about you.

 

 Marsha Norman

 

 

    The moment I said I'd finished a book, I knew what would happen. There would be a bidding war, and I would end up with someone who'd got the fattest wallet, who had bought it because I'd written Harry Potter. That would have been why.

 

 J. K. Rowling
 

 

    When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.

 

 Clifton Fadiman

 The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

 

Rene Descartes

 

 

 

 

    The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Abraham Lincoln

 

 


    Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

 

Albert Einstein
 


    Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

 

Thomas Jefferson


    Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

 

Barbara Tuchman
 

 

 

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

 

 Groucho Marx

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