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Books Quotes
"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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"Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer."
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"You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books."
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"I loved to read when I was a kid, and as soon as I realized that an actual person got to make up the books I loved so much, I decided that that was the job for me."
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"I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books."
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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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"I think the thinking is, in the comic books, I should pack as much onto a page as possible, because, you know, it's kind of the cheaper format, and you want to give readers as much as you can for their dollar."
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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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"In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year."
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"It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old."
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"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
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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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"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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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do."
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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 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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"Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books."
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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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"The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books."
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"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."
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"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."
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"I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms."
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"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
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"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
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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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