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Books Quotes
"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."
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"I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books."
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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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"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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"At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around."
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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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"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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"We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore."
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"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough."
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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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"Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find."
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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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"Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads."
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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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"My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books."
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"I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should."
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"The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books."
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"I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself."
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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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"A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow."
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"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."
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"If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed."
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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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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed."
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