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"Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books."
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Personal Development
"Read much, but not many books."
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Personal Development
"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
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"Books are humanity in print."
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"We are motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is the more he is inspired by glory. The very philosophers themselves, even in those books which they write in contempt of glory, inscribe their names."
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"You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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"Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones."
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"I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys."
Parenting
"I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession."
Love
"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
Books
"I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings."
Love
"I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up."
Parenting
"People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's."
Life
"If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story."
Life
"I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun."
Books
"My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment."
Favorite
"I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career."
Books
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