"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."

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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."

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"My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel."

"The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."

"I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years."

"We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."

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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."

"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."

"Books-oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the samefeelings.""I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least beno want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."

"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."

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