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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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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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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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"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
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"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."
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"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
Writer
"One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered that even though I did not want to, I was reading. I have been a reader ever since."
Reading
"I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play."
Family
"We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening."
Family
"Quite often somebody will say, What year do your books take place? and the only answer I can give is, In childhood."
Books
"People are inclined to say that I am Ramona. I'm not sure that's true, but I did share some experiences with her."
People
"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
Books
"Otis was inspired by a boy who sat across the aisle from me in sixth grade. He was a lively person. My best friend appears in assorted books in various disguises."
Friendship
"I read my books aloud before they were published."
Books
"I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house."
Family
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