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[Quote No.40380] Need Area: Fun > Books
"One of the beautiful things about words is that you can put words together which in isolation mean nothing, or mean only what the dictionary says they mean, and you put them together and you get extraordinary effects." - Donald Barthelme
(1931 - 1989), American fiction writer.
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[Quote No.40383] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I have given up newspapers in exchange for Tacitus and Thucydides, for Newton and Euclid; and I find myself much the happier." - Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826)
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[Quote No.40390] Need Area: Fun > Books
"All autobiographies are alibi-ographies." - Clare Boothe Luce
(1903 - 1987)
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[Quote No.40464] Need Area: Fun > Books
"For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food." - Anne Lamott

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[Quote No.40470] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The writer's job is to turn the unspeakable into words - not just into any words, but if we can, into rhythm and blues." - Anne Lamott

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[Quote No.40731] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Even if one day people stop or are forced to stop writing and publishing, if books are no longer available, there will still be storytellers giving us mouth-to-ear artificial respiration, spinning old stories in new ways; loud and soft, heckling and halting, now close to laughter, now on the brink of tears." - Gunter Grass
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957
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[Quote No.40732] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images." - Albert Camus
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1957
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[Quote No.40734] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I believe that man will not merely endure: he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has ... a spirit capable of compassion and sacrifice and endurance. The poet’s, the writer’s, duty is to write about these things. It is his privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart, by reminding him of the courage and honor and hope and pride and compassion and pity and sacrifice which have been the glory of his past." - William Faulkner
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1949
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[Quote No.40735] Need Area: Fun > Books
"All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer." - Ernest Hemingway
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1954
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[Quote No.40736] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[All great writing is infused with subjective and objective Truth:] Sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going...I would...think...All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know... The most essential gift for a good writer is a built-in shock-proof shit [un-truth] detector. This is the writer’s radar and all great writers have had it." - Ernest Hemingway
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1954
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[Quote No.40738] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Genuine poetry can communicate [even just a feeling or atmosphere] before it is understood. " - T.S. Eliot
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1948
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[Quote No.40739] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The relationship between eroticism and poetry is such that it can be said, without affectation, that the former is a poetry of the body and the latter an eroticism of language." - Octavio Paz
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1990
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[Quote No.40740] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The experience of a poem is the experience both of a moment and of a lifetime." - T.S. Eliot
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1948
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[Quote No.40741] Need Area: Fun > Books
"In the house of poetry nothing endures that is not written with blood to be heard with blood." - Pablo Neruda
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1971
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[Quote No.40742] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes: to hear it is to see it with our ears." - T.S. Eliot
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1948
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[Quote No.40744] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There is no friend as loyal as a book!" - Ernest Hemingway
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1954
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[Quote No.40745] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A man can never have too many books..." - Rudyard Kipling
winner Nobel Prize for Literature, 1907
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[Quote No.40746] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I’m old-fashioned and think that reading books is the most glorious pastime that humankind has yet devised." - Wislawa Szymborska
Polish poetess and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, 1996
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[Quote No.41152] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Do your bit to save humanity from lapsing back into barbarity by reading all the novels you can." - Richard Hughes

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[Quote No.41338] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A book should be an ice pick to break up the frozen sea within us." - Franz Kafka

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[Quote No.41483] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I think of an author as somebody who goes into the marketplace and puts down his rug and says, I will tell you a story, and then he passes the hat." - Robertson Davies

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[Quote No.41511] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading is one of the main things I do. Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading gives me something to talk about later on. Reading is the unbelievably healthy way my attention deficit disorder medicates itself. Reading is escape, and the opposite of escape; it's a way to make contact with reality after a day of making things up, and it's a way of making contact with someone else's imagination after a day that's all too real. Reading is grist. Reading is bliss." - Nora Ephron
(1941 - ), author and screen-writer. She wrote the film-scipts for the movies 'Silkwood' (1983), 'When Harry Met Sally' (1989), 'Sleepless in Seattle' (1993), and 'You've Got Mail' (1998).
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[Quote No.41514] Need Area: Fun > Books
"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate." - Henry Miller

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[Quote No.41516] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Reading is the best medicine for a sicke man, the best musicke for a sadde man, the best counsel for a desperate man, the best comfort for one afflicted." - John Florio
written in 1578
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[Quote No.41517] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Who would call a day spent reading a good day? But a life spent reading - that is a good life." - Annie Dillard

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[Quote No.41518] Need Area: Fun > Books
"To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading." - Jimmy Buffett

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[Quote No.41531] Need Area: Fun > Books
"There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion!" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
(1803-1882), writer and philosopher
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[Quote No.41616] Need Area: Fun > Books
"All that is thought should not be said. All that is said should not be written. All that is written should not be published. All that is published should not be read. " - Rabbi Menachem Mendel of Kotzk
(1787 - 1859)
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[Quote No.41839] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Books were my pass to personal freedom. I learned to read at age three, and soon discovered there was a whole world to conquer that went beyond our farm in Mississippi." - Oprah Winfrey

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[Quote No.42439] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own, which is the chief reason for that kind of reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it." - Jonathan Swift
(1667 - 1745), satirist
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[Quote No.42629] Need Area: Fun > Books
"What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do." - Alan Bennett

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[Quote No.42745] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted. You live several lives while reading it." - William Styron

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[Quote No.43114] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Fiction is the truth inside the lie." - Stephen King

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[Quote No.43186] Need Area: Fun > Books
"I read myself to sleep every night. " - Gary Paulsen
(1939 - ), American writer who writes many young adult coming of age stories about the wilderness.
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[Quote No.43193] Need Area: Fun > Books
"A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading." - William Styron
The author of the best-selling, 'Sophie's Choice'.
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[Quote No.43317] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The poet speaks to all men [and women] of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten." - Dame Edith Sitwell

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[Quote No.43327] Need Area: Fun > Books
"It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them!!" - John Ruskin

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[Quote No.43353] Need Area: Fun > Books
"When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind." - Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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[Quote No.43547] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Great stories never really end; they take up residence inside us and live on in our thoughts, conversations, fantasies, and dreams. They are also a powerful influence over our beliefs, values, opinions, and perceptions." - Dara Marks
She is a script consultant who has consistently been rated one of the best in the film industry by 'Creative Screenwriting Magazine'. Quote from her book, 'Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational Arc'. The screenwriter and playwright, Lisa Loomer, says 'Dara’s work is more than a unique approach to story. It is an understanding of the transformational process that is life.'
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[Quote No.43604] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[When you are feeling down...] Open a book this minute and start reading. Don’t move until you’ve reached page fifty. Until you’ve buried your thoughts in print. Cover yourself with words. Wash yourself away. Dissolve. [Become another person and experience another life for a while to give yourself a break from your own concerns and 'cleanse your palate'.]" - Carol Shields

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[Quote No.43607] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self!" - Franz Kafka

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[Quote No.43654] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing." - Norman Mailer

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[Quote No.43711] Need Area: Fun > Books
"An autobiography usually reveals nothing bad about its writer except his memory. " - Franklin P. Jones

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[Quote No.43737] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Every book is the wreck of a perfect idea." - Iris Murdoch
Irish-born writer.
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[Quote No.43801] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The true alchemists do not change lead into gold; they change the world into words." - William H. Gass

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[Quote No.43802] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly - they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced." - Aldous Huxley
The author of 'Brave New World'.
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[Quote No.43804] Need Area: Fun > Books
"[A poem that explains that a poem can be life changing:]

A line is a fuse,
That's lit.
The line smolders,
The rhyme explodes -
And by a stanza,
A city,
is blown to bits.

" - Vladimir Mayakovsky
Russian poet and playwright
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[Quote No.43881] Need Area: Fun > Books
"Memoirs are the backstairs of history." - George Meredith

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[Quote No.44037] Need Area: Fun > Books
"The effect of keeping good company in literature is exactly what it is in life. Keeping good company is spiritually dynamogenous, elevating, bracing. It makes one better. Keeping bad company is disabling; keeping indifferent company is enervating and retarding." - Albert Jay Nock
(1870–1945)
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