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"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."
William Osler
"To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all."
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"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them."
Jeffery Deaver
"Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them."
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"Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books."
Dr. Seuss
"Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books."
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"Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks."
Samuel West
"Books don't exist unless you read them. And it's a two way process - you write the book as you read it and you fill in the gaps. You discover it and you put the marks together and without you doing it they're just marks."
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"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."
Lloyd Alexander
"If writers learn more from their books than do readers, perhaps I may have begun to learn."
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"I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team."
Vince Carter
"I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team."
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"I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that."
Floyd Abrams
"I just had the sense that at least the books that I had read about law just didn't really have enough of that."
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"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."
Robertson Davies
"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."
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"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
Terence Young
"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
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"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words."
Laurie Anderson
"I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words."
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"Books follow morals, and not morals books."
Theophile Gautier
"Books follow morals, and not morals books."
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"Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world."
Augustine Birrell
"Given Pounds and five years, and an ordinary man can in the ordinary course, without any undue haste or putting any pressure upon his taste, surround himself with books, all in his own language, and thence forward have at least one place in the world."
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"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
Beverly Cleary
"With twins, reading aloud to them was the only chance I could get to sit down. I read them picture books until they were reading on their own."
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"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."
Evelyn Waugh
"Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
Bruce Jackson
"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day."
Mary MacLane
"I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day."
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"I take refuge in my books."
Julia Ward Howe
"I take refuge in my books."
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"I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do."
Paula Danziger
"I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do."
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"I don't read books."
Eric Bristow
"I don't read books."
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"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
Roland Barthes
"The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning."
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"I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift."
Tim LaHaye
"I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift."
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"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
John Selden
"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
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"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused."
Darren Aronofsky
"Comic books and graphic novels are a great medium. It's incredibly underused."
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"Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October."
John Leonard
"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."
Mortimer Adler
"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 can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods."
Rocco DiSpirito
"I can now focus on a huge audience through TV, books, cookware and foods."
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"Books and harlots have their quarrels in public."
Walter Benjamin
"Books and harlots have their quarrels in public."
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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."
Richard Curtis
"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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"You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one."
Paul Auster
"You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one."
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"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."
Anatole France
"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me."
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"Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do."
Robert Kirkman
"Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do."
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"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind."
Robert Chambers
"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind."
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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
Delia Smith
"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."
Jean Rostand
"I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books."
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"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
Billy Joel
"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
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"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
Helen Dunmore
"Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive."
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"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
Robert Morgan
"The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged."
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"No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them."
Jack L. Chalker
"No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them."
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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."
Helen Dunmore
"My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint."
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"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."
Octavia Butler
"While Fledging is a different type of book, The Parable series serve as cautionary tales. I wrote the Parable books because of the direction of the country. You can call it save the world fiction, but it clearly doesn't save anything."
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"There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books."
Henry Ward Beecher
"There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books."
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"I feel I've got 10 books in me."
Robert Hunter
"I feel I've got 10 books in me."
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"I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood."
Max Muller
"I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood."
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"Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring."
Charles Guggenheim
"Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring."
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"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
Harper Lee
"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
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"Actually, the books were never a planned career path."
Jamie Lee Curtis
"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."
Sue Grafton
"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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"Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming."
Jeffery Deaver
"Trying to write books with a subject matter or in a genre or style you're not familiar with is the best way to find the Big Block looming."
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"The wise are above books."
Samuel Daniel
"The wise are above books."
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