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Books Quotes
"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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"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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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
61
"But everything of value about me is in my books."
61
"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."
51
"Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!"
51
"Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."
43
"Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else."
40
"I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom."
40
"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."
37
"Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find."
36
"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."
31
"It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents."
31
"Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness."
28
"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."
27
"There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment."
27
"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."
26
"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."
26
"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."
25
"Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books."
25
"Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?"
25
"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."
24
"Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer."
22
"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."
22
"You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one."
22
"Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer."
21
"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."
20
"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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