"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."

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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

Peter Shaffer, English Playwright

Books, Writer, Writing

"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

Tom Robbins, American Author

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"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

Stanley Victor Paskavich, American Politician

Books, Reading, Respect, Passion

"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

Christian Slater, American Actor

Books, Day, Games, Play

"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."

William Shatner, Canadian Actor

Books, Quest, Questions, Tomorrow

"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

Jonathan Lethem, American Writer

Books, Building, Luck, Result

"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

Martin Lewis Perl, American Physicist

Books, Numbers, Years

"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."

Norman MacCaig, Scottish Poet

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"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

Jean Rostand, French Scientist

Books, Jargon, Lies, Reality

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"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

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"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."

"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."

"Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is more cool than a book."

"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."

"It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make."

"If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked."

"I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way."

"Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books."

"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."

"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."

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"The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death."

"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."

"What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?"

"It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."

"You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

"One hardly saves a world without ruling it."

"Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen."

"Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

"Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea."

"Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."