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Books Quotes
"I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me."
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"My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books."
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"I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself."
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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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"Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant."
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"Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes."
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"Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well."
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"Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
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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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"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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"Going out in Paris was like going out in the '30s dressed like the Andrews Sisters. It was everything I'd seen in books at my grandparents' house, only it was our generation."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction."
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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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"I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out."
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"In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you."
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"I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say."
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"There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do."
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"No matter how people mess with you or let you down, or how you let yourself down, a good book means that when you get in bed that night, you have a good hour. I feel like you pay all day for that hour. That's what books mean to me. I can open this two-dimensional, flat white page with squiggly little black marks on them, and someone has created this world that you're going to enter into."
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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 written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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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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"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
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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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