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Books Quotes
"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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"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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"There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
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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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"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."
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"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."
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"I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms."
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"I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff."
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"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel."
"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
"I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore."
"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."
"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
"My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books."
"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."
"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."
"I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should."
"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
"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."
"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
"I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it."
"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
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