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"A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow."
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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."
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"Doctor Sleep - book (By Stephen King) is the best choice before going to bed!"
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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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"Without story books is like a person with no soul."
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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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"A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you."
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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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Explore more quotes by J. B. Priestley
"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."
Life
"If you are a genius, you'll make your own rules, but if not - and the odds are against it - go to your desk no matter what your mood, face the icy challenge of the paper - write."
Genius
"Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write."
Writing
"To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven."
Heaven
"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"
Life
"There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent."
Talent
"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."
Communication
"Comedy, we may say, is society protecting itself - with a smile."
Society
"Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing."
Time
"Our trouble is that we drink too much tea. I see in this the slow revenge of the Orient, which has diverted the Yellow River down our throats."
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