Famous Quotes: Book

I don't watch a huge amount of telly. I read a lot. I'm reading at the moment 'Freedom,' by Jonathan Franzen, a great big brick of a book, and I'm loving it.
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I think almost every writer in the world would hope that books would be always talked about with respect and civility and depth and seriousness.
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I don't read 'chick lit,' fantasy or science fiction but I'll give any book a chance if it's lying there and I've got half an hour to kill.
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There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.
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I want to write a book of poetry, as well as children's stories.
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I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
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I haven't deliberately set out to play the blonde bombshell in my movies. In fact, it's probably been quite the opposite. After the success of The Mask, I wasn't offered all that many blonde bombshell parts, to be honest. I think people believed from the beginning that I could actually walk and talk at the same time.
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That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
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I hope I won't become hated by geeks everywhere, but I don't really know comic books all that well.
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I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
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The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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All the money I have, I got it legally.
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What are people going to do? Fire me? I've been fired before. Not book me? I've been out of work before. I don't care.
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I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.
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By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality.
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To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
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I like to walk around my apartment naked. I like sitting around in the nude watching sports, actually.
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Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.
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I don't think you should feel about a film. You should feel about a woman, not a movie. You can't kiss a movie.
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One thing that worried me was how writers get categorized and so they end up having to write the same kind of book again and again. That is fine if it is what you want to do, but I would rather be locked in the trunk of my car with a weasel than write the same book every three years until I die.
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