Robert Frost Quotes, Book Quotes, Reading Quotes

I was under twenty when I deliberately put it to myself one night after good conversation that there are moments when we actually touch in talk what the best writing can only come near. The curse of our book language is not so much that it keeps forever to the same set phrases . . . but that it sounds forever with the same reading tones. We must go out into the vernacular for tones that haven't been brought to book.

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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.

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One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.

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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

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I admit," I said, "that a second murder in a book often cheers things up." - Hastings

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I'm aware of 'Twilight,' but I've never seen the movies or read any of the books. Frankly, the story leaves me cold - why do a vampire story about abstinence?

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Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses.

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This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

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Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

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If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly by the hand, before I mix with other people; otherwise they would think my mind rather queer.

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Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull.

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Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

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Oh, and I have to mention one lady who does all of my book covers in cross stitch and frames them. Muriel. She's amazing. I just received one for my latest, Love And Dr Devon, actually. It's very sweet of her to do it.

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When I used to play golf. It's a terrible miserable game. It's incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water...You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.

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I would like [the working man] to give me back books and newspapers and theories. And I would like to give him back, in return, his old insouciance, and rich, original spontaneity and fullness of life.

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I should infinitely prefer a book.

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After telephone, kinematograph and phonograph had replaced newspaper, book schoolmaster and letter, to live outside the range of the electric cables was to live an isolated savage.

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It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books.

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I didn't want the book [of memoirs] out, naturally - Larry [Grobel] knew that for 20 years, 15 at least, I didn't want anything written about me. Then, you know, things happen, finally it's OK and I trust Larry. Nothing about it is salacious in any way.

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