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Books Quotes
"I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines."
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"I haven't made up my mind about doing anymore Landover books."
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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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"To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser."
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"Quentin and I were constantly finding something new that we had in common and comic books were one of them. I think we were talking about comic books much earlier in our relationship, before I had the part."
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"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."
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"My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve."
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"The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most."
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"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."
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"I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read."
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"We don't perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore."
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"I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David."
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"One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves."
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"We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions."
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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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"Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images."
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"It's weirder and more surprising than the other books. I think there are more places where it's just more reality bending, deliberately so. I think it's a lot more emotionally raw."
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"Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed."
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"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."
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"My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have."
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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."
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"Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books."
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"The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing."
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"The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries."
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"Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical."
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"The copycat effects of media violence, similar to those previously attributed to westerns, radio serials and comic books, are easy to exaggerate."
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"However, if I can expand this to Top Cow or Avatar I'm helping the sales, however small, on my Marvel books because I'm almost certain to pick up some new readers."
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"There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough."
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"I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy."
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"I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them."
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"A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships."
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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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"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
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"It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do."
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