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"I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip."
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"Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost."
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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all."
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"It was also a room full of books and made of books. There was no actual furniture; this is to say, the desk and chairs were shaped out of books. It looked as though many of them were frequently referred to, because they lay open with other books used as bookmarks."
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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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."
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"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"I attended the University of Louisville my freshman year, transferred to what was then Western Kentucky State Teachers College for my sophomore and junior years, and then graduated from the University of Louisville in the summer of 1961."
College
"At that point, I sat down and made an alphabetical list of all the crime related words I could think of. So here I am now, nearly half-way through, probably tied up until the year 2015 or SO."
Crime
"Henry is entirely invented though by now I feel he's as real as anyone I know."
Now
"I spent the first twenty years of my writing career preparing for the mystery genre, which is my favorite literary form."
Career
"After my years in Hollywood, I got tired of apologizing for work that really wasn't mine to begin with."
Work
"I focus on the writing and let the rest of the process take care of itself. I've learned to trust my own instincts and I've also learned to take risks."
Trust
"I've never written about my husband, Steve, or any of my children because I know them all too well. I see them in all their complexities which makes them impossible to render on the printed page."
Family
"I started writing seriously when I was 18, wrote my first novel when I was 22, and I've never stopped writing since."
Writing
"Ideas are easy. It's the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from the goats."
Creativity
"Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so."
Writing
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