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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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Explore more quotes by Beverly Cleary
"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
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"I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library."
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"Children want to do what grownups do."
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"I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to burden third- and fourth-graders with them."
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"I read my books aloud before they were published."
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"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."
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"Writers are good at plucking out what they need here and there."
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"I was a very observant child. The boys in my books are based on boys in my neighborhood growing up."
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"Children should learn that reading is pleasure, not just something that teachers make you do in school."
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"What interests me is what children go through while growing up."
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