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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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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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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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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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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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"Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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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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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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"Writing this book feels like a completely different activity from writing my comic strip because it's about real life. I feel like I'm using a part of my brain that's been dormant until now."
Life
"Well, I'm always working on my comic strip and trying to, you know, keep cranking that out."
Trying
"I just met someone who read Gone With the Wind 62 times for exactly that same reason. She couldn't bear that it wasn't real. She wanted to live in it."
Reason
"I'm pretty illiterate when it comes to comics history."
History
"Mostly it was Mad magazine. And I did read a lot of - I had a subscription when I was little, but I also had access to some old collections, the little paperbacks of the really good stuff."
Old
"I love Jules Feiffer. I didn't discover him until I was a little older."
Love
"But mostly, it's a book about my relationship with my father."
Father
"And partly, the worst thing you could do in my family was need something from someone. So physical strength represented an avenue of self-sufficiency to me."
Family
"Partly I resented being perceived as weak because I was a girl."
Being
"That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project."
Gender
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