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“I think if you look at any facet of nature in enough detail, you find it fascinating. How could you not? The universe is so full of marvels. Here's an example -- rain, the shape of rain. I was minding my own business, working on my book, looking out the window, and it was raining and I was noticing that the raindrops were falling in that classic round-looking way, and I thought, 'I wonder if raindrops really are round?' So I started researching it a little, and I discovered that raindrops change shape 300 times a second.”

“Hugh Grant and I both laugh and cringe at the same things, worship the same books, eat the same food, hate central heating and sleep with the window open. I thought these things were vital, but being two peas in a pod ended up not being enough.”

Two Book Enough Hate Sleep Laughing Worship Window Grants Peas Cringe Heating Peas In A Pod

Author:Elizabeth Hurley

“Outside sleep's open window, between the drops of rain, history is writing a recipe book for every earthly pain.”

Writing Book Pain Sleep Future Rain Window Recipes Premonition

Author:Ani DiFranco

“I knew books could see people around them, they ground their tiny teeth, tried to rattle like windows, stories to tell.”

People Book Stories Window Tiny Teeth

Author:Steve Aylett

“A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.”

Book Bigs Tree Window Pool Cheese Frogs Crow Dairy Looking Down

Book:The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

Source: The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family

“The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the windows of their eyes, seeing and to be seen.”

Book Soul Eye Seeing Window Passages Notable Lively Turned Down Open Book Levity

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“There are houses in certain provincial towns whose aspect inspires melancholy, akin to that called forth by sombre cloisters, dreary moorlands, or the desolation of ruins. Within these houses there is, perhaps, the silence of the cloister, the barrenness of moors, the skeleton of ruins; life and movement are so stagnant there that a stranger might think them uninhabited, were it not that he encounters suddenly the pale, cold glance of a motionless person, whose half-monastic face peers beyond the window-casing at the sound of an unaccustomed step.”

Source: Eugenie Grandet

“The rain was dashing in torrents against the window-panes, and the wind sweeping in heavy and fitful gusts along the dreary and deserted streets, as a party of three persons sat over their wine, in that stately old pile which once formed the resort of the Irish Members, in College Green, Dublin, and went by the name of Daly's Clubhouse.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charles Lever (Illustrated)

“I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.”

Giving Trying Book Teach Students Window Mirrors Reflecting

Author:Donalyn Miller

“I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.”

Way Years Children Doe Book Play Hours Existence Written Fields Window Drawing Neighborhood Notebook Fertile Sketching

Author:Maurice Sendak

“At bed-time I went into my room and put out the light. I didn't get undressed. I lay on my bed and looked out of the window at the stars. I read in a book that the stars can take you anywhere. I've never wanted to be an astronaut because of the helmets. If I were up there on the moon, or by the Milky Way, I'd want to feel the stars round my head. I'd want them in my hair the way they are in paintings of the gods. I'd want my whole body to feel the space, the empty space and points of light. That's how dancers must feel, dancers and acrobats, just for a second, that freedom.”

Ifs Way Want Feels Book Whole Body Light Wanted Stars Space Rooms Painting Hair Bed Moon Window Empty Lays Rounds Dancer Astronaut Helmet Empty Space Milky Way Points Of Light Bed Time

Author:Jeanette Winterson

“When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.”

Thinking Book Dark Fire Wind Rain Window Driving Voyages Sleet

Book:The Long Voyage

Source: The Long Voyage

“I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate glass window of the"mainstream" culture. The world seems full of straight, large-circulation, slick periodicals which wouldn't think of reviewing my book and bookstores which will never order it.”

Thinking World Book Sometimes Seems Order Culture Window Glasses Wide Noses Mainstream Plates Living My Life Bookstores Circulation I Live My Life Slick Mainstream Culture

Book:Books & Life

Source: Books & Life

“In one of the Welsh counties is a small village called A-----. It is somewhat removed from the high road, and is, therefore, but little known to those luxurious amateurs of the picturesque, who view nature through the windows of a carriage and four.”

Littles Book Views Known Four Window Village County Carriages Luxurious Welsh High Road Picturesque Small Villages

Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

“Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen sat one morning in the window-bay of their father's house in Beldover, working and talking.”

Book Father House Talking Morning Window Sat

Book:Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)

“I raise my hand; I take a book from the other side of this desk; I hear the boys playing ball outside my window; I see the clouds blown away beyond the neighboring woods:-in all these I am practicing Zen, I am living Zen. No worldly discussion is necessary, or any explanation.”

Book Hands Sides Boys Window Balls Raises Clouds Woods Discussion Explanation Desks Worldly Blown Away

Author:D.T. Suzuki

“The Chinese word Li may therefore be understood as organic order, as distinct from mechanical or legal order, both of which go by the book. Li is the asymmetrical, nonrepetitive, and unregimented order which we find in the patterns of moving water, the form of trees and clouds, of frost crystals on the window, or the scattering of pebbles on beach sand.”

May Book Moving Form Order Water Tree Understood Window Clouds Patterns Chinese Beach Sand Crystals Frost Pebbles Moving Water

Book:Tao: The Watercourse Way

Source: Tao: The Watercourse Way

“Paste magazine has served as a tremendous window into culture for my house. I can think of no other publication that provides such critical yet entertaining thoughts on music, movies, books and gaming as Paste. My mailbox would be a dark place indeed without it.”

Thinking I Can Book Would Be Culture House Dark Window Critical Magazines Entertaining Publication Gaming Dark Places Mailboxes

Author:Derek Webb

“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.”

Years Has Beens Book Mines Window Twenties Shops Shop Windows

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Pedro Teixeira, the great Portuguese merchant-adventurer, wrote a beautiful description of a coffeehouse with windows overlooking the Tigris and the ruins of old Baghdad. That was in 1604, and he's visiting the same street that I write about in the book, named after Abu Nuwas, though it wasn't called that back then.”

Writing Book Beautiful Streets Window Ruins Description Visiting Merchants Adventurer Baghdad Portuguese Overlooking

Author:Annia Ciezadlo

“People would come and threaten them. And they would respond by putting the book in the window. Behind that, the publishers, many of whom were menaced and receiving anonymous phone calls of the very menacing kind and so, almost everybody - not everybody, but almost everybody held the line.”

People Kind Book Lines Behinds Window Phones Receiving Publishers Phone Calls

Author:Salman Rushdie

“Oddly, I think if you look at comic books, you look at the shelves in the store, it's predominantly male characters, historically. But if you look outside the window it's 52-percent female, and something odd is going on there. So I do think it's your responsibility as a writer, really, to create stuff that little girls can get into too. I want my daughters to have role models that are female.”

Ifs Thinking Want Looks Littles Book Character Girl Stuff Responsibility Roles Models Percent Daughter Female Window Males Stores Comic Odd My Daughter Role Models Comic Book Shelves

Author:Mark Millar

“My parents never mentioned anything about fashion in our household, instead we used to talk about literature, theatre, and arts...this is why I have kept a real relation with the Art world, by putting books from the beginning in my shops' windows.”

World Art Book Real Used Literature Parent Fashion Window Relation Theatre Shops Household Art World Shop Windows

Author:Sonia Rykiel

“I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and her loneliness and her gaze out the window.Although it was set in England, it didn't feel to me like an overly English book. In terms of the use of cultural references, it was not extreme, so it was very simple to go from England to America in the adaptation.”

Feels Book Use America Film Girl Term Imagination Simple Loneliness Window England Train Extremes Location Adaptation

Author:Erin Cressida Wilson

“I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them are books for children but I feel like childhood reading is this magic window and there's something that you sort of carry for the rest of your life when a book has really changed you as a kid, or affected you, or even made you recognize something about yourself.”

Thinking Children Book Kids Reading Magic Childhood Changed Window About Yourself

Author:Rebecca Stead

“My main influences - I loved art. I sounds a little pretentious to say I was into art but I liked drawing. I liked music; music was my outlet from day one. I was giving you an image of Ireland being this dull, grey, massive unemployment, not much going on and the future was the dull queue or - and, for me, the window of hope was music and books. So I fell in love with sort of T-Rex and David Bowie very young. They sort of said, "Hey. You don't have to live in this north side of Dublin that's all grey and depressed. You can be a spider and go to Mars."”

Giving Art Book Influence Window Ireland Pretentious Hey You

Author:Gavin Friday

“I know what I as an editor respond to is a voice. A voice is not just a stylistic thing, but it means someone who really has something to say. I think a lot of what I get from books - whether they be books of comics or books of literature - is a window into somebody's mind and their way of thinking. Somehow, I can recognize some of my feelings in seeing somebody who is actually expressing their own inner reality.”

Thinking Mind Mean Book Feelings Reality Literature Window

Author:Francoise Mouly

“A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.”

Ifs Men Mean Children Book House Rooms Window

Author:Horace Mann

“Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's not hard for me to look out the window and tell a joke here and there.”

Writing Looks Book Hard Shows Fun Hours Couple Jokes Window Bus Here And There Writing A Book

Author:Willie Nelson

“A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.”

Book Nature Wonder Beauty Morning Mystery Flower Glory Garden Window Metaphysics Carpe Diem Flower Garden Flowers And Gardens Rose Flower Summer Flower Morning Glory

Book:Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

Source: Annotated LEAVES OF GRASS with English Grammar Exercises: by Walt Whitman (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)

“When I'm doing a book tour in the States, I'll wake up in the room sometimes in an anonymous chain hotel, and I don't know where I am right away. I'll go to the window, and it doesn't help there either, especially if you're in an anonymous strip and it's the usual Victoria's Secret, Gap, Chili's, Applebee's.”

Ifs Knows Book Sometimes States Helping Rooms Secret Window Wake Up Chains Hotel Gaps Usual Victoria Chili Victoria's Secret

Author:Anthony Bourdain

“A house without books is like a room without windows.”

“Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door," are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony.”

Source: Fahrenheit 451: A Novel

“Without books the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are the engines of change, windows on the world, "Lighthouses" as the poet said "erected in the sea of time." They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind, Books are humanity in print.”

World Mind Has Beens Said Book Humanity Change Teacher Impossible Magic Sea Poet Development Civilization Window Treasure Companion Print Engines Magician Bankers Lighthouse Standstill

Book:101 Facts of life

Source: 101 Facts of life

“What better occupation, really, than to spend the evening at the fireside with a book, with the wind beating on the windows and the lamp burning bright...Haven't you ever happened to come across in a book some vague notion that you've had, some obscure idea that returns from afar and that seems to express completely your most subtle feelings?”

Book Ideas Feelings Seems Happened Havens Wind Return Window Notion Evening Burning Subtle Occupation Vague Obscure Lamps Afar Burning Bright

Author:Gustave Flaubert

“A big leather-bound volume makes an ideal razorstrap. A thing book is useful to stick under a table with a broken caster to steady it. A large, flat atlas can be used to cover a window with a broken pane. And a thick, old-fashioned heavy book with a clasp is the finest thing in the world to throw at a noisy cat.”

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Author:Mark Twain

“Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book on the shelf, this having done with the triumphs of youth, lost herself in the process of living, to find it with a shock of delight, as the sun rose, as the day sank. Many a time had she gone, at Barton when they were all talking, to look at the sky; seen it between peoples shoulders at dinner; seen it in London when she could not sleep. She walked to the window.”

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Book:Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

Source: Mrs. Dalloway - Broadview Edition

“In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond.”

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Book:The Library at Night

Source: The Library at Night

“Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned--in search of what? It is the same with books. What do we seek through millions of pages?”

Book Faces House Dark Millions Pages Window Shops Squares Bedroom

Book:Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

Source: Selected Works of Virginia Woolf

“Each thing I do, I rush through so I can do something else. In such a way do the days pass - -a blend of stock car racing and the never ending building of a gothic cathedral. Through the windows of my speeding car I see all that I love falling away: books unread, jokes untold, landscapes unvisited.”

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Author:Stephen Dobyns

“I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.”

“Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?”

Source: To the Lighthouse

“One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head of the Lake of Shining Waters, and the air was full of the savor of clover fields and balsamic fir woods, Anne was sitting by her gable window. She had been studying her lessons, but it had grown too dark to see the book, so she had fallen into wide-eyed reverie, looking out past the boughs of the Snow Queen, once more bestarred with its tufts of blossom.”

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“She threw the door open. The room seemed to be a sort of library, the walls lined with books. It was brightly lit, light streaming through a tall picture window. In the middle of the room stood Jace. He wasn't alone, though-not by a long shot. There was a dark-haired girl with him, a girl Clary had never seen before, and the two of them were locked together in a passionate embrace”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass

“When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good... nothing is too difficult for children.”

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Author:Madeleine L'Engle

“Pleasures First look from morning's window The rediscovered book Fascinated faces Snow, the change of the seasons The newspaper The dog Dialectics Showering, swimming Old music Comfortable shoes Comprehension New music Writing, planting Traveling Singing Being friendly”

“For years I wrote in my basement. More recently I graduated to one floor above, an office with all my books and music and - ta da! - a window.”

Years Book Office Window Basements Books And Music

Author:Mitch Albom

“There is a peculiar aesthetic pleasure in constructing the form of a syllabus, or a book of essays, or a course of lectures. Visions and shadows of people and ideas can be arranged and rearranged like stained-glass pieces in a window, or chessmen on a board.”

People Book Ideas Form Courses Pleasure Vision Pieces Shadow Window Glasses Boards Peculiar Aesthetic Essays Lectures Stained Glass Syllabus

Book:The Children's Book

Source: The Children's Book

“Books have been thought of as windows to another world of imagination”

World Has Beens Book Imagination Window Another World

Author:Stephenie Meyer

“I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again.”