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Books Quotes
"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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"They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along."
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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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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
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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 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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"It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all."
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"Well you know I've been fan of Tony Hillerman's books for years."
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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."
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"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."
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"I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should."
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"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
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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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"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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"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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"The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate."
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"My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve."
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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 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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"The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties."
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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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"I write sets of books, but I've also written a lot of orphans."
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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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"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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"The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all."
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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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