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"Hemingway hated me. I sold 200 million books, and he didn't. Of course most of mine sold for 25 cents, but still... you look at all this stuff with a grain of salt."
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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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"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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"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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"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
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"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
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"Victor Saville was bad news because he wanted money just to do one big picture."
Money
"I wrote the original Mike Hammer as a comic, Mike Danger."
Danger
"My father was Catholic, my mother was Protestant, and because of that I got Christened in both churches, so I've got all these names... but my Dad always called me Mick."
Family
"I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it."
People
"Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book."
Writing
"Now I'm not an author, I'm a writer, that's all I am."
Now
"I'm a commercial writer, not an author. Margaret Mitchell was an author. She wrote one book."
Media
"Where I am they can smell out a hurricane. My house survived Hurricane Hazel, but it didn't get past Hugo."
Past
"I'm a country boy. I hate New York. But that's where things happen, so I use it as a base for stories, I know enough about it. But I have to keep going back there."
Nation
"I read all the time... I read a lot of history books."
History
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