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Books Quotes
"Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published."
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"Though my books are written from a historical perspective, I have goon so far back that I am in the realm of prehistorical speculation rather than simple historical fact to weave my stories around."
7
"You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here."
7
"Actually, the books were never a planned career path."
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"I don't have the feeling that as a very young person I read books that absolutely made their mark on my mind."
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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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"The mortality of all inanimate things is terrible to me, but that of books most of all."
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"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
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"A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books."
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"I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me."
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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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"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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"I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic."
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"Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel."
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"My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books."
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"I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it."
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"As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are bad; editors won't even read them."
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"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
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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."
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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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"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."
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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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"It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't."
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"I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds."
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"You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books."
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"It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all."
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"I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old."
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"Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes."
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