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"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
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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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"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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"The multitude of books is making us ignorant."
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"Storytelling is an ancient and honorable act. An essential role to play in the community or tribe. It's one that I embrace wholeheartedly and have been fortunate enough to be rewarded for."
Act
"And out of a desire essentially to imitate what I was reading, I began to write, like a clever monkey."
Desire
"One of the things I have tried to do with this book and with all of them really is avoid that simple, easy, reductionist view of motivation and to show we do things for a complex net of reasons, a real braid of reasons."
Motivational
"A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties."
Education
"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
Books
"Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life."
Life
"I much prefer working with kids whose life could be completely upended by a reading of a book over a weekend. You give them a book to read - they go home and come back a changed person. And that is so much more interesting and exciting."
Home
"Nobody does anything for one reason."
Reason
"I began as a boy with artistic talent... as a visual artist... I thought that was what I'd become and in my late teens drifted into reading serious literature."
Talent
"It's hard to spend years at a time working in total solitude with no reality-check."
Time
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