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Related My favorite book, by a wide margin, was An Imperial Affliction, but I didn’t like to tell peo... JOHN GREEN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... JOHN GREEN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... , THE FAULT IN OUR STARS, 2012 Sometimes, u read a book and it fills u with this weird evangelical zeal, and u become convinced tha... JOHN GREEN ...there are books...which you can't tell people about, books so special and rare and yours that adv... JOHN GREEN Books so special and rare and yours that advertising your affection feels like a betrayal. JOHN GREEN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a yea... RALPH WALDO EMERSON It fills a little niche; nobody's ever written about this before in this way because it's a book abo... JANE WHITE Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff i... KATHRYN ERSKINE I used to comfort myself with the idea of a book with serrated, detachable pages, so that you could ... FRANZ WRIGHT When you read "The Secret" it tells you "Do not take no one's advice, but read books" Ain't that the... "BETA" METANI' MARASHI There are also books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the... STEPHEN KING There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor... STEPHEN KING Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room talking to you, whic... JACK HANDY We are so overwhelmed with quantities of books, that we hardly realize any more that a book can be v... D.H. LAWRENCE I had to read it for home school. It is sort of a mystery, and it was so detailed. I like books like... CAROLINE LELAND If you take a book with you on a journey," Mo had said when he put the first one in her box, "an odd... CORNELIA FUNKE I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ... RAY BRADBURY Sections in the bookstore - Books You Haven't Read - Books You Needn't Read - B... ITALO CALVINO Read Homer once, and you can read no more. For all books else appear so mean, and so poor. Verse wil... DUKE OF BUCKINGHAM Never force yourself to read a book that you do not enjoy. There are so many good books in the world... ATWOOD H. TOWNSEND Some books are so special that you never forget where you were the first time you read them. NATALIE LLOYD In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo... ITALO CALVINO There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that ... DORIS LESSING Read a lot - poems, prose, stories, newspapers, anything. Read books and poems that you think you wi... MICHAEL MORPURGO Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your... ANGELA CARTER You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a ... ANAïS NIN In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Follo... ITALO CALVINO Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that ... R.L. STINE Currently, the Library of Congress houses eighteen million books. American publishers add another tw... TONY REINKE Read sometimes for the story, Bobby. Don't be like the book-snobs who won't do that. Read sometimes ... STEPHEN KING She might not have read many books. But when she reads a book, she swallows the very words. If you o... KAMAND KOJOURI If these is right from the beginnig up to the end like in books "Don't touch this book", this is rea... DEYTH BANGER Some people, in order to discover God, read books. But there is a great book: the very appearance of... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO Sometimes, readers, when they're young, are given, say, a book like 'Moby Dick' to read.... GABRIELLE ZEVIN Every event in life — the rejections, the relationships, all the embarrassing things you do will l... MIKE ZACCHIO Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jum... SARAH ADDISON ALLEN The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we... CAROLYN WELLS (in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those ... RAY BRADBURY Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so t... R. L. STINE The book which you are reading aloud is mine, Fidentinus; but,
while you read it so badly, it begin... MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL I love real books, paper books, but I also love buying online, and I think that people are more will... CAROLINE LEAVITT I have so little patience with the whole Y.A. book thing. As far as I'm concerned, you either re... RICHARD K. MORGAN You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a ... ANAIS NIN If you are brave, you will open the book and read it. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Nobody has the right to not be offended. That right doesn't exist in any declaration I have ever rea... SALMAN RUSHDIE And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it'... LAWRENCE KASDAN Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you'... MARKUS ZUSAK If they read two books then two books will be given to 'First Book,' ELIZABETH MOORE ....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read be... MORTIMER J. ADLER There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone... MARINA IVANOVA TSVETAEVA There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone... MARINA TSVETAEVA We have the capacity to become a unique and special person unlike any other. Draw on your inner reso... ANGIE KARAN Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled ar... FRANCES HARDINGE When you read the Bible, you are reading the Holy Spirit and not history books. When you read histor... T. B. JOSHUA There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone... MARINA TSVETAEVA I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines a... JOHN IRVING The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read... CAROLYN WELLS There is no fear in the word LOVE! For LOVE does not know fear... PHILIP T. M. When you write non-fiction, you sit down at your desk with a pile of notebooks, newspaper clippings,... JANINE DI GIOVANNI Those books of mine really got under their skin. Ironically, they thought I was inhuman becau... STEVE TOLTZ There are so many good books waiting to be read, I’ll never go back and read one twice. DEB BAKER John Mason wrote a very good book that I recommend you read: An Enemy Called Average. I learned from... JOHN MASON What people don't understand about depression is how much it hurts. It's like your brain is convince... TYLER HAMILTON That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everyth... DAVE EGGERS Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now e... DEYTH BANGER All good books are different but all bad books are exactly the same. I know this to be a fact becaus... ROBERT HARRIS When you're young - when I was young - you want your emotions to be like the ones you read about in ... JULIAN BARNES Read good books. Read bad books - and figure out why you don't like them. Then don't do it w... PATRICIA BRIGGS The people who read the history books tend to have a natural zeal and are alarmingly well-read. SAUL DAVID I read 'Game Change.' If you want to relive the campaign, that book is unbelievable. It'... ANNETTE BENING Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind i... JOSEPH CAMPBELL Take a chance of your life, you're risking nothing in this planet. NAZIM AMBALATH I will tell you this: I have fun, a lot of fun with 'The Apprentice.' When I did the books -... DONALD TRUMP People are used to juggling multiple jobs and multiple responsibilities and multiple things on the h... DEAN BAKOPOULOS You will be the same person in five as you are today except for the people you meet and the books yo... CHARLES ''TREMENDOUS'' JONES There's two tiers of science fiction: the McDonalds sci-fi like Star Trek, where they have an ad... DAVID GERROLD Witchcraft isn't about picking up a book, and asking forgiveness.. or learning about spirituality th... CARLA VANKOUGHNETT Oh, oh, oh I can't do that and that... Okay I will do that,... I gonna read this book, I will check ... DEYTH BANGER Often the adult book is not for you, not yet, or will only be for you when you're ready. But sometim... NEIL GAIMAN If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expec... PAUL FUSSELL Look at a book. A book is the right size to be a book. They're solar-powered. If you drop them, ... DOUGLAS ADAMS If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you ha... BRANDON SANDERSON Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you'... JAMES SALTER You taught me to think, and you put ideas in my head. People read to forget. Books don't change the ... FAIQA MANSAB Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and p... PAUL THEROUX I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewe... JOHN GREEN Well, it seems to me that there are books that tell stories, and then there are books that tell trut... JENNIFER DONNELLY Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary ... CARMEN AGRA DEEDY Things happen, people change,' is what Amanda said. For her that covered it. You wanted an explanati... JAY MCINERNEY If you have carefully examined hundred people you met in your life journey, it means that you have r... MEHMET MURAT ILDAN Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety o... NICHOLAS SPARKS Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To ... DAVID BERGEN Some days you get up and you already know that things aren't going to go well. They're the type of d... BILL WATTERSON What can we see, read, acquire, but ourselves. Take the book, my friend, and read your eyes out, you... RALPH WALDO EMERSON At the sight of a good book, you just can't walk away but to claim and read it. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il... WILLIAM DONELSON I write entertainment. There are some books you read but don't inhale. There are books that will... MICHAEL ROBOTHAM I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know... JASON ISAACS
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JOHN GREEN Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever; pay attention to t... JOHN GREEN Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinc... JOHN GREEN Some infinities are bigger than other infinities... JOHN GREEN It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities ar... JOHN GREEN There are infinite numbers between 0 and 1. There's .1 and .12 and .112 and an infinite collection o... JOHN GREEN Some infinities are bigger than other infinities. JOHN GREEN What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person. JOHN GREEN Without pain, how could we know joy?' This is an old argument in the field of thinking about sufferi... JOHN GREEN You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the f... JOHN GREEN That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pret... JOHN GREEN The pleasure of remembering had been taken from me, because there was no longer anyone to remember w... JOHN GREEN Apparently, the world is not a wish-granting factory. JOHN GREEN Augustus," I said. "Really. You don't have to do this." "Sure I do," he said. "I found my Wish.... JOHN GREEN Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start. JOHN GREEN You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. JOHN GREEN We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska t... JOHN GREEN Harry Potter isn’t real? Oh no! Wait, wait, what do you mean by real? Is this video blog real? Am ... JOHN GREEN The marks humans leave are too often scars. JOHN GREEN As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once. JOHN GREEN Much of my life had been devoted to trying not to cry in front of people who loved me, so I knew wha... JOHN GREEN It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, i... JOHN GREEN Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to den... JOHN GREEN I'm a grenade and at some point I'm going to blow up and I would like to minimize the casualties, ok... JOHN GREEN You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All effo... JOHN GREEN That’s part of what I like about the book in some ways. It portrays death truthfully. You die in t... JOHN GREEN I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is inprobably biased toward the con... JOHN GREEN Maybe 'okay' will be our 'always JOHN GREEN It's a metaphor, see: You put the killing thing right between your teeth, but you don't give it the ... 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JOHN GREEN Sometimes I don't get you,' I said. She didn't even glance at me. She just smiled toward the t... JOHN GREEN That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them. JOHN GREEN I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American president to be assassi... JOHN GREEN I just did some calculations and I've been able to determine that you're full of shit. JOHN GREEN I am going to take this bucket of water and pour it on the flames of hell, and then I am going to us... JOHN GREEN Sometimes you lose a battle. But mischief always wins the war JOHN GREEN And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall... JOHN GREEN Have you really read all those books in your room?” Alaska laughing- “Oh God no. I’... JOHN GREEN He was gone, and I did not have time to tell him what I had just now realized: that I forgave him, a... JOHN GREEN Francois Rabelais. He was a poet. And his last words were "I go to seek a Great Perhaps." That's why... JOHN GREEN It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and fe... JOHN GREEN I may die young, but at least I'll die smart. JOHN GREEN What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those ... JOHN GREEN I wanted so badly to lie down next to her on the couch, to wrap my arms around her and sleep. Not fu... JOHN GREEN When I look at my room, I see a girl who loves books. JOHN GREEN pg. 231-232: They'd given me a minivan. They could have picked any car and they picked a minivan. A ... JOHN GREEN Islam and Christianity promise eternal paradise to the faithful. And that is a powerful opiate, cert... JOHN GREEN I figured something out. The future is unpredictable. JOHN GREEN When things break, it's not the actual breaking that prevents them from getting back together again.... JOHN GREEN It is so hard to leave—until you leave. 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