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Books Quotes
"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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"Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out."
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"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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"I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere."
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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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"A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines."
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"Scholarship was one thing, drudgery another. I very soon concluded that nothing would induce me to read, let alone make notes on, hundreds and hundreds of very, very, very boring books."
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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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"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
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"I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books."
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"I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy."
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"Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant."
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"Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books."
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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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"I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books."
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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 basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old."
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"I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes."
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"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."
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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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"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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"All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
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"What I saw next stopped me dead in my tracks. Books. Not just one or two dozen, but hundreds of them. In crates. In piles on the floor. In bookcases that stretched from floor to ceiling and lined the entire room. I turned around and around in a slow circle, feeling as if I'd just stumbled into Ali Baba's cave. I was breathless, close to tears, and positively dizzy with greed."
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"I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it."
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"Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion."
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"And I don't like books which are full of name dropping."
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"There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books."
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"Myrna could spend happy hours browsing bookcases. She felt if she could just get a good look at a person's bookcase and their grocery cart, she'd pretty much know who they were."
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