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Books Quotes
"When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books."
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"Master books, but do not let them master you. Read to live, not live to read."
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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 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've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
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"Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?"
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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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"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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"The core " and perhaps unexpected " thing that books do for us is simplify. It sounds odd, because we think of literature as sophisticated. But there are powerful ways in which books organise, and clarify our concerns " and in this sense simplify."
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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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"The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them."
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"The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads."
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"Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
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"I will only start taking book reviews seriously from the day that books are able to review readers."
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"I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad."
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"Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads."
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"Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new."
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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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"It was really written as most, I think, books are by writers - for themselves. There was something that just had to be written, in a way that it had to be written. If you know what I mean."
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"Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them."
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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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"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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"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
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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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