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Books Quotes
"But everything of value about me is in my books."
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"Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters."
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"If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it."
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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
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"Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence."
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"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."
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"Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else."
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"Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better."
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"This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs."
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"If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level."
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"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David."
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"Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen."
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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
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"I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore."
4
"If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come."
4
"Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer."
4
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."
3
"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."
3
"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."
3
"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."
3
"Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol."
2
"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
2
"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."
2
"If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed."
2
"It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw."
2
"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."
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