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"I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation."
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"Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid."
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"At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity."
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"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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"I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple minds who can't take in the strong content they provide."
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"Every book is worth reading. If it cannot make you wiser it will make you a critic."
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"I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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"Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive."
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"My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall."
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"When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke."
Interest
"I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation."
Books
"Kids enjoy laughing and are seldom bored when they find something funny. They also ask questions, often to adults, because they understand that the more words they can comprehend about a funny story or a joke, the more they'll enjoy it."
Fun
"You want a story? Read 'Gone With the Wind'. These aren't stories. They're joke books. The whole thing of a beginning, a middle and an end has been done to death."
Death
"If I have a talent for making some fourth-grader who hates school and reading to hate it a little less, then I have to do the most with what I've been issued."
Talent
"It's perfectly okay if you don't understand every single one of them. For one thing, I make a lot of corny jokes, and you have to be 40 years old to get some of them."
Humor
"Our cat is kind dove shellfish, and thinks the world is hers, She finds a comfy spot and then we pet turtle sheep purrs."
Cat
"In writing I found something I could do at least as well as my peers, if not better."
Writing
"These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important."
Books
"I love the semicolon; it's unnecessary, but graceful and sophisticated."
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