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Books Quotes
"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."
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"Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity."
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"I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter."
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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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"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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"I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should."
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"One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print."
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"And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers."
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"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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"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."
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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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"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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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."
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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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"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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"Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around."
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"Actually, the books were never a planned career path."
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"I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip."
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"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
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"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
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"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
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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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"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
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"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."
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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed."
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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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"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
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"I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have never lost a case have not had enough hard cases. But there are very difficult cases out there."
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"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."
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