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Books Quotes
"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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"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."
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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."
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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."
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"Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are."
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"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."
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"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."
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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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"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."
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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."
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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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"I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world."
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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."
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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."
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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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"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
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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."
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"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."
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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."
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