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Books Quotes
"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."
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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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"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."
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"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."
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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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"Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em."
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"No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them."
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"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
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"Next, in importance to books are their titles."
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"One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print."
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"Although most products will soon be too costly to purchase, there will be a thriving market in the sale of books on how to fix them."
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"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
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"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."
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"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
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"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."
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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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"Thanks to bad graphic design, some readers love only the electronic version of some books."
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"I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds."
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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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"Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half."
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"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"How could I make a little book, when I have seen enough to make a dozen large books?"
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"I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books."
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