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Books Quotes
"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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"There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island."
10
"I have learned to do more with less, so you don't see the big books anymore."
9
"I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should."
9
"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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"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
9
"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."
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"I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction."
9
"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."
9
"One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print."
9
"I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books."
9
"And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers."
9
"About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it."
9
"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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"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
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"Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half."
9
"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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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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"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."
9
"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
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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."
9
"Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?"
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"The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
9
"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
8
"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
8
"I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do."
8
"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
8
"Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books."
8
"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."
8
"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."
8
"The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties."
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"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."
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