"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."

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"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."

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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

Thomas Carlyle, Scottish Philosopher

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Doug Coupland, Canadian Author

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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."

Carl Sandburg, American Poet

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John Milton, English Poet

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Voltaire, French Writer

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"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."

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"I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s."

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"The characters can't be wittier than people are in real life. They have to be character witty."

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"I don't want to do the same thing over and over again."

Want

"I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it."

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"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."

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"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."

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"I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist."

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"The true university of these days is a collection of books."

"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."

"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."

"Perhaps this new kind of reading will appeal to us after we give it a try."

"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."

"I was burning through books every day - stories about people and places I'd never heard of. They were perhaps the only thing that kept me from teetering into utter despair."

"Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?"

"Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself."

"I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."

"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."

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"I don't want to do the same thing over and over again."

"I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it."

"The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms."

"I think a lot of the time you just parody yourself."

"The truth is that I'm constitutionally incapable of doing an ordinary job."

"I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme."

"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."

"I have no qualifications to do anything else and there weren't any formal application forms you had to fill in for stand-up, so I thought I'd give that a twist."