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Books Quotes
"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."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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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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"These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves."
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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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"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."
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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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"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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"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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"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused."
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"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."
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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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"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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"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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"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews."
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"When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults."
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"Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years."
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"I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in."
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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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"I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar."
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"I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them."
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"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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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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"Next, in importance to books are their titles."
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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
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