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Books Quotes
"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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"But everything of value about me is in my books."
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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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"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!"
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"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."
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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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"Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else."
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"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."
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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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"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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"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."
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"One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."
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"I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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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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"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 lessons as often as we please."
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"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."
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"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
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"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David."
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"Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer."
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"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
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"When you read a book and its words agree with what you think, your view of the world or your feelings at the time, you discover that there are people out there that think like you. That takes away a feeling of loneliness."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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"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."
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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."
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