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Books Quotes
"Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers."
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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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"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 took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."
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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 don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept."
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"Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books."
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"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."
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"I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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"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."
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"Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves."
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"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
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"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
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"It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw."
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"Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness."
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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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"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
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"Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers."
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"I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books."
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"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
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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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"Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part."
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"I really like books that you can kind of hear as much as think about, that are so graphic and visual."
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"Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books."
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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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"I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me."
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"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
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"I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on."
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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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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon."
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"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
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