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Books Quotes
"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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"I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them."
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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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"At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around."
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"I'm more of a visual person, but I think that reading's extremely important. But I'm very easily distracted. It takes certain books to really grab you in."
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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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"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
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"Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer."
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"Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles."
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"I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid!"
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"I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms."
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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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"We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions."
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"Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims."
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"A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted."
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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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"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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"Why do I do this every Sunday? Even the book reviews seem to be the same as last week's. Different books same reviews."
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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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"I love walking into a bookstore. It's like all my friends are sitting on shelves, waving their pages at me."
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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."
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"Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do."
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"Children simply don't make the distinction; a book is either good or bad. And some of the books they think are good are very, very bad indeed."
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"I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say."
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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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"If I loved all the world as I do you, I shouldn't write books to it: I should only write letters to it, and that would be only a clumsy stage on the way to entire telepathy."
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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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"But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu."
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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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"To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films."
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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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"There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over."
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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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"Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes."
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