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"I write books to find out about things."
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"What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so."
"I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor, surprises, and mystery. A good book always keeps you asking questions, and makes you keep turning pages so you can find out the answers."
"Even a book with completely empty pages will change you because you will start thinking about the reason behind this emptiness and once you enter the thinking territory it means that you entered a territory of change!"
"I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should."
"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
"Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October."
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"There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence."
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
"I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute."
"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
"The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy."
"Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats."
"The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple."
"Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind."
"Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs."
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology."
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