3105 Books Quotes for You to Enjoy

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year. Marie Kondo

Year Few Books About Quite Published

It's going to be labor-intensive and time-consuming, but you need to take all the books down and put them on the floor. Take them down and spread them in one area. Physically pick each book up, one by one. If the book inspires you, keep it. If not, it goes out. That's the standard by which you decide. Marie Kondo

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I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that. Marie Lu

Game Remember Books Kid Favorite Adventure Like Series Things

I was so in love with books from as early as I remember that it seemed a natural step to want to create them. And so I just wanted to be a writer from a very young age. And I think that the lies were just a natural side effect of me wanting to tell stories and write them down. Marie Rutkoski

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For many, many years, I thought that I wasn't good enough or that I would never be able to create something that could touch other people the way books have touched me. There's nothing better than having a lifelong dream come true. Marie Rutkoski

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I have a very childish attitude to books - a very non-analytic enthusiasm... like Alice falling down the chute. Mariella Frostrup

Attitude Enthusiasm Childish Down Alice Books Like Falling Very

It's an absolute disgrace that there isn't a books programme on the BBC. Mariella Frostrup

Books Absolute Disgrace Programme

I'm a voracious reader. I want information, all kinds - Internet, books, magazines. Marilyn Minter

Internet Books Kinds Magazines Voracious Reader Want Information

I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time. Marilynne Robinson

I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less overwhelmed again and again - if not by what the books actually said, by what they suggested, what they helped me to imagine. Marilynne Robinson

All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles. Mario Batali

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My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers. Mario Benedetti

First Books Up Did Ended Paying Publishers Two

People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit. Mario Cuomo

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Couldn't imagine any other way of living, outside of books, outside my work. Which doesn't mean I am not interested in other things, of course - I am interested in many things. But the center, the crux, is always literature. Mario Vargas Llosa

The internet creates more of an appetite for media - it doesn't replace physical books, radio or TV. Marissa Mayer

Internet Books TV Physical More Replace Creates Radio Media Appetite

New York publishing is about, 'What's the next Harry Potter? What's the next Twilight?' When I've approached people, I've asked, 'What is the book you've been dying to do, but New York won't do?' I want the books that they think won't sell - because I think they will. Marissa Moss

More than conventional picture books, the notebook format allows me to leap from words to images, and this free-flowing back-and-forth inspires my best work. It reflects the way I think - sometimes visually, sometimes verbally - with the pictures not there just to illustrate the text but to replace it, to tell their own story. Marissa Moss

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I got into comics because I wrote an 'X-Men' novel for Pocket Books, and I introduced myself to the head of recruitment at Marvel. I'd heard through the grapevine they liked the book, so that gave me the courage to go up to them and be like, 'Hey, if you ever need a writer, here I am.' Marjorie Liu

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As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists and people and stories to support what we feel to be a better representation of all women. Of real women. Marjorie Liu

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There have been some brilliant and very successful standalone books that work in themselves and also seem to refresh a series. Anyone who writes a series lives in fear of it becoming stale, so you do whatever you can to keep it fresh - although it does feel a bit nerve-racking to write outside of your comfort zone. Mark Billingham

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You throw the kitchen sink at your early books. You put everything in there. It's like when you meet a new girlfriend or boyfriend, you tell them all your best stories. By the time you have been married for 10 years, they are crying, 'Shut up!' Mark Billingham

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I discovered reading through libraries. I grew up in a house that wasn't brimming with books. Mark Billingham

Reading Books Libraries Through House Discovered Up Grew

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