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Books Quotes
"So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books."
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"And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee."
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"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."
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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
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"Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant."
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"I really hate those books where the murderer turns out to be somebody you never heard of who pops up in the last chapter."
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"I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel."
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"Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house."
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"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."
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"Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs."
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"When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books."
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"Books are something which by the words breaths when you stop writing it stops it's own proccess = breathing.."
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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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"Generally my typical books have lots of twists and turns a big surprise ending and then usually another surprise at the end and ideally, as in Garden of Beasts, we get to the very end and we find at the last few pages that there's yet another surprise."
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"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
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"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."
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"I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
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"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
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"I hate books; they only teach us to talk about what we don't know."
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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 knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen."
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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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"Most of my books have been written in the form of fantasy."
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"We tend to read each other's books in sizeable chunks as they are written. I don't know that you could say we are ruthless with each other - in fact, I suppose we are very kind. There are ways to make suggestions which are not destructive."
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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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"Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon."
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"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."
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"And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers."
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"More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works."
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