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Books Quotes
"The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties."
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"We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive."
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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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"I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift."
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"Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October."
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
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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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"Again, we turn down most books that have been self-published unless they have a special track record. We have taken a small number on, however, and sold them to major publishers for a nice sum. But that is an exception to the rule."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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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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"No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them."
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"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
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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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"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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"Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books."
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"So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books."
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"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
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"The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too."
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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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"In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year."
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"Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find."
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"Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles."
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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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"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"
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"I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms."
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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
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