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Books Quotes
"I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see."
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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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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can."
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"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
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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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"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me."
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"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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"I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should."
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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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"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works."
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"In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive."
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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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"Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years."
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"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
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"Actually, the books were never a planned career path."
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"I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter."
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"I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece."
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"Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it."
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"Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = breathing.."
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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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"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, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
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"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."
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"And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers."
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"Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers."
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"Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October."
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"Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule."
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"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."
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