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Books Quotes
"One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them."
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"I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer."
8
"Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol."
7
"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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"I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed."
7
"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed."
7
"I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything."
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"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
7
"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
7
"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
7
"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
7
"I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out."
7
"Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads."
7
"In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them."
7
"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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"I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience."
7
"Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do."
7
"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."
7
"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."
7
"The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate."
7
"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."
7
"I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books."
7
"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."
7
"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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