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Books Quotes
"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."
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"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
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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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"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works."
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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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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
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"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
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"So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books."
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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 was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar."
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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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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed."
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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed."
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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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"In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive."
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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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"I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period."
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"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
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"I have written things that Republicans and Democrats and all kinds of figures have either hated or felt very uncomfortable about. Because in doing these long projects and books, you get close to the bone. And they're not calling me up and asking me for dinner."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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"There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do."
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"Actually, the books were never a planned career path."
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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
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"A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."
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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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"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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"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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"I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats."
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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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"With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy."
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"I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it."
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