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Books Quotes
"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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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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"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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"I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels."
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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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"Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years."
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"In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey."
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"I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift."
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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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"As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the 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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"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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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
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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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"We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that."
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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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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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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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"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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"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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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
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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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"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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"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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"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
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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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"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works."
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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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"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 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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"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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"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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