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Sometimes, the greatest adventures can be found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Allison Chang
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The greatest adventures are often found within the pages of a book
Author:
Emily Young
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The best books are the ones that awaken a sense of curiosity within us, urging us to explore the mysteries of the world.
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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Sometimes the greatest adventures are those within the pages of a book.
Author:
Samantha Campbell
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The greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book, for it is there that dreams come to life.
Author:
Katherine White
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Life's greatest adventures are found within the pages of a book.
Author:
Samantha Roberts
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Getting lost in a good book is finding yourself in another world.
Author:
Emily Parker
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Losing yourself in a good book is like taking a silent vacation amongst the chaos of life.
Author:
Samantha Jones
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Sometimes the greatest adventures are found in books, waiting to whisk you off to faraway lands.
Author:
Emma Roberts
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The greatest adventures are found in the pages of a book.
Author:
Rebecca Thompson
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To read too many books is harmful.
Author:
Mao Zedong
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I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.
Author:
Ahmet Zappa
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There was no actual person who was James Bond, despite all the books.
Author:
Terence Young
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More books, more racing and more foolishness with cars and motorcycles are in the works.
Author:
Brock Yates
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Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if used discreetly, you are the fitter for conversation by em.
Author:
William Wycherley
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I always carry lots of stuff with me wherever I roam, always weighted down with books, with cassettes, with pens and paper, just in case I get the urge to sit down somewhere, and oh, I don't know, read something or write my masterpiece.
Author:
Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.
Author:
Frank Wright
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Author:
John Wooden
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I'm not too interested in books about India.
Author:
Beatrice Wood
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My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.
Author:
Jeanette Winterson
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Nowadays I construct my books as if they're film scripts.
Author:
Leon Winter
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Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?
Author:
Henry Winkler
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There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Author:
Oscar Wilde
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A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.
Author:
Walt Whitman
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I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.
Author:
Lisa Whelchel
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When I did start writing books, I didn't realize it, but the girls that grew up watching the show became moms.
Author:
Lisa Whelchel
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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.
Author:
Samuel West
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I write books to find out about things.
Author:
Rebecca West
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Quite simply, federal laws already on the books aimed at stopping the flow of illegal immigration must be enforced. Furthermore, states must be given the resources necessary to confront the problem, which includes strengthening the border patrol.
Author:
Allen West
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.
Author:
Irvine Welsh
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It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Author:
Carolyn Wells
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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.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
Author:
Naomi Watts
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I grew up without a television. It meant that I read lots of books and entertained myself.
Author:
Emily Watson
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
Author:
Mary Ward
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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.
Author:
Bill Walsh
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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.
Author:
Neale Walsch
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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.
Author:
Diane Wakoski
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I read numerous books - loads in fact - and, as I always do when recording a historical project, immersed myself into the subject matter. I spent many hours at Henry's old homes, such as Hampton Court, and visiting the Tower of London. I read no other books during that period.
Author:
Rick Wakeman
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.
Author:
Voltaire
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The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Author:
Voltaire
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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That is sad until one recalls how many bad books the world may yet be spared because of the busyness of writers.
Author:
Gore Vidal
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With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
Author:
Lope Vega
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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
Author:
Jack Vance
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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do.
Author:
Jack Vance
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
Author:
Ville Valo
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I don't sign contracts for my books.
Author:
Andrew Vachss
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I don't take advances for my books.
Author:
Andrew Vachss
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Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him.
Author:
Mike Tyson
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
Author:
Mark Twain
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The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Author:
Mark Twain
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Books are humanity in print.
Author:
Barbara Tuchman
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I'm no different from anybody else. If I don't have a card, I can't check out these books.
Author:
Bess Truman
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If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.
Author:
Lily Tomlin
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Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.
Author:
Henry Thoreau
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I'd only read a bit of the first book. And I just knew about all the media furor over it. But I'd not read books 2 or 3. I'd just read a bit of it. And I'd seen the films.
Author:
David Thewlis
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of ages through which they passed.
Author:
William Temple
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Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new.
Author:
William Temple
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The books I loved in childhood - the first loves - I've read so often that I've internalized them in some really essential way: they are more inside me now than out.
Author:
Donna Tartt
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I'm obsessed with books.
Author:
David Sylvian
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Books, the children of the brain.
Author:
Jonathan Swift
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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!
Author:
R. Stine
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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.
Author:
R. Stine
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So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.
Author:
George Stephen
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A couple of weeks after that, Zebra Books phoned with an offer, and I accepted.
Author:
George Stephen
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Surely the immutable laws of the universe can teach more impressive and exalted lessons than the holy books of all the religions on earth.
Author:
Elizabeth Stanton
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Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety of authors. And read with questions in your mind.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something.
Author:
Nicholas Sparks
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I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
Author:
Peter Sotos
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Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
Author:
Peter Sotos
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The newest books are those that never grow old.
Author:
Logan Smith
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I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world.
Author:
Delia Smith
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Books are a finer world within the world.
Author:
Alexander Smith
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Well, obviously, as soon as I'd finished the script I read a lot of books on Winston Churchill, and started to gain weight and really prepare emotionally, mentally and physically for the role.
Author:
Christian Slater
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It's almost like these games are the modern day comic books, especially when you play Alone in the Dark. There's a real story that goes along with it and a movie seemed like the right kind of transition to make.
Author:
Christian Slater
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I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.
Author:
Bill Sienkiewicz
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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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.
Author:
Irwin Shaw
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
Author:
George Shaw
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If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.
Author:
William Shatner
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I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
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Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Author:
Dr. Seuss
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You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
Author:
Maurice Sendak
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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.
Author:
John Selden
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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.
Author:
Anton Seidl
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In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.
Author:
John Scott
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There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
Author:
Karl Schlegel
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My room for books and study or for sitting and thinking about nothing in particular to see what would happen was at the end of a hall.
Author:
Carl Sandburg
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Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.
Author:
Fred Saberhagen
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My parents came to visit every two months and brought plenty of books.
Author:
Mathias Rust
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A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.
Author:
Richard Russo
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It's no secret that in my books I'm trying to make the comic and the serious rub up against each other just as closely and uncomfortably as I can.
Author:
Richard Russo
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What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?
Author:
John Ruskin
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Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
Author:
Ann Rule
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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.
Author:
Rudy Rucker
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The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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I prefer the honest jargon of reality to the outright lies of books.
Author:
Jean Rostand
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Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
Author:
Ernestine Rose
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Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story.
Author:
Nora Roberts
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Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
Author:
Alexandra Ripley
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We live in the country, and I have a huge library there. When we go to London for the winter I never know which books to take. I never know what I am going to need. That's the only disadvantage.
Author:
Mordecai Richler
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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.
Author:
Simon Raven
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Many good sayings are to be found in holy books, but merely reading them will not make one religious.
Author:
Ramakrishna
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If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.
Author:
Manuel Puig
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A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.
Author:
J. Priestley
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My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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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.
Author:
Jack Prelutsky
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Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Author:
Lawrence Powell
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Books do furnish a room.
Author:
Anthony Powell
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I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.
Author:
Bernard Pivot
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All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?
Author:
Daniel Pinkwater
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Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Author:
Petrarch
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I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.
Author:
Thomas Perry
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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
Author:
Martin Perl
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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Author:
Theodore Parker
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Very few of my books are about who stole the Maltese Falcon.
Author:
Robert Parker
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MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of Assistance.
Author:
James Otis
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I have some shorter stories coming out in other books early next year. I might be pitching a re-vamp of Ghost Rider in the spring. We'll see.
Author:
Patton Oswalt
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
Author:
William Osler
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To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.
Author:
William Osler
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He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
Author:
William Osler
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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.
Author:
John Osborne
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.
Author:
George Orwell
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A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.
Author:
Tim O'Reilly
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Many poets write books. They'll tell you: Well, I've got my next book, but there are two poems I need to write, one about x, one about y. This is a wonder to me.
Author:
Sharon Olds
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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please.
Author:
Louis Nizer
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My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.
Author:
Don Nickles
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I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
Author:
Marc Newson
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
Author:
V. Naipaul
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But everything of value about me is in my books.
Author:
V. Naipaul
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I never read a single book as a child. I did not read as a child. I worked on the farm. I had books in the classroom, but that was it. I never read a single book outside of the classroom.
Author:
Story Musgrave
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I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
Author:
Haruki Murakami
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Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.
Author:
Bill Mumy
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I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so true, if once understood.
Author:
Max Muller
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The best books of our times have included the three mature volumes of Philip Larkin. They're very short books of poems, and very carefully arranged.
Author:
Robert Morgan
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My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.
Author:
Thomas More
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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.
Author:
Dylan Moran
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One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.
Author:
Dylan Moran
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They want a lip print for their autograph books. I'm a sport; I go along.
Author:
Cleo Moore
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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.
Author:
Alan Moore
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When I was starting out, I did not do short fiction well, because I kept wanting to write books.
Author:
Elizabeth Moon
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A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.
Author:
Francois Mitterrand
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Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
Author:
John Milton
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As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.
Author:
Jeff Miller
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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.
Author:
Mark Millar
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Marvel books also feed into the smaller publishers and the fact that this is happening in the same month we're launching Ultimate Fantastic Four is no coincidence.
Author:
Mark Millar
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The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
Author:
Mark Millar
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The books are all very, very different so the publishers really had to be different too.
Author:
Mark Millar
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We've had really good mainstream publicity for these books and both Wanted and Chosen were snapped up as movie deals before each series even ended so I'm honestly just pinching myself.
Author:
Mark Millar
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There's a whole bunch of unfinished stuff. Then I've got books of lyrics. I find it frustrating to finish a song and not be able to record it... so I don't write a million songs.
Author:
Christine McVie
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I don't often reread my own books, unless I am going into another in the series and need to refresh my mood when originating the concept.
Author:
Anne McCaffrey
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I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
Author:
Anne McCaffrey
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And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
Author:
Daphne Maurier
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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.
Author:
Chris Matthews
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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.
Author:
Jason Marsden
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The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Author:
Katherine Mansfield
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A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.
Author:
Horace Mann
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The flesh, alas, is sad, and I have read all the books.
Author:
Stephane Mallarme
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
Author:
Maimonides
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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.
Author:
Margaret Mahy
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I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but once in years, things subtle but distinctly different from the books written every day.
Author:
Mary MacLane
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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.
Author:
Hugh Mackay
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There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.
Author:
Norman MacCaig
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I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.
Author:
Norman MacCaig
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I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
Author:
Martin Luther
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I have friends who read my books in Greek.
Author:
Brian Lumley
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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
Author:
John Lubbock
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.
Author:
H. Lovecraft
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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No, I'm not a comic book guy. I'm pretty fascinated with the subculture though and I do think that the world of comic books is such a natural transition into film.
Author:
Donal Logue
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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.
Author:
Robert Lifton
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Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.
Author:
George Lewes
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Any kid who has two parents who are interested in him and has a houseful of books isn't poor.
Author:
Sam Levenson
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
Author:
Oscar Levant
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I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Author:
Oscar Levant
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I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.
Author:
Jonathan Lethem
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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.
Author:
Matthew Lesko
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Books fall from Garry Wills like leaves from a maple tree in a sort of permanent October.
Author:
John Leonard
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I have no memory for what happens in what books. I don't know when I might remember a scene, but beats me what book it's in because there are 14 of them now.
Author:
Donna Leon
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You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here.
Author:
Harper Lee
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Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.
Author:
Alvin Lee
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The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.
Author:
Stanislaw Lec
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One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
Author:
David Lawrence
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I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.
Author:
Johann Lambert
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Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book.
Author:
Charles Lamb
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I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift.
Author:
Tim LaHaye
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I'd experienced the '40s and '50s by looking at my grandparents' old clothes, books, and magazines.
Author:
Christian Lacroix
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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.
Author:
Christian Lacroix
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Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
Author:
Dean Koontz
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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.
Author:
Alexander Kluge
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Sometimes I miss out the morning's painting session and instead study my Japanese books in the open.
Author:
Gustav Klimt
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I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
Author:
Stephen Kleene
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Last year I think I made more from my Image books than anywhere else.
Author:
Robert Kirkman
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Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.
Author:
Robert Kirkman
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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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Jonathan Kellerman
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You're getting to know who the great chefs are through their books.
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Thomas Keller
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I think really good books can be read by anybody.
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Norton Juster
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
Author:
Norton Juster
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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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Norton Juster
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Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
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James Jones
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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Samuel Johnson
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
Author:
Samuel Johnson
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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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Billy Joel
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Books that do a tenth of what Left Behind has done are smashing successes.
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Jerry Jenkins
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I cannot live without books.
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Thomas Jefferson
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Books can now be on the stands within days from delivery of a formatted manuscript, and often are.
Author:
Bruce Jackson
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I describe my works as books, but my publishers in Spain, in the United States, and elsewhere insist on calling them novels.
Author:
Guillermo Infante
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I have assiduously avoided calling my books novels.
Author:
Guillermo Infante
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The proper study of mankind is books.
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Aldous Huxley
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We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg's great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.
Author:
Robert Hutchins
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I regret all of my books.
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Zora Hurston
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I feel I've got 10 books in me.
Author:
Robert Hunter
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It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.
Author:
Leigh Hunt
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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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William Howells
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I take refuge in my books.
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Julia Howe
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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.
Author:
Joseph Howe
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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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Laurence Housman
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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.
Author:
Laurence Housman
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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.
Author:
Judy Holliday
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I try to make my books reflect humanity as I see it.
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Tony Hillerman
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Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Author:
Laura Hillenbrand
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These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
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Gilbert Highet
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.
Author:
Ernest Hemingway
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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.
Author:
Claud-Adrian Helvetius
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Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings.
Author:
Heinrich Heine
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I've learned to look like I'm listening to long confusing plots of cartoons and comic books when I'm actually sound asleep or making grocery shopping lists in my head.
Author:
Patricia Heaton
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One of the great defects of English books printed in the last century is the want of an index.
Author:
Lafcadio Hearn
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Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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I have to go make books. Sorry about that.
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Teresa Hayden
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Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.
Author:
Lorenz Hart
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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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Tom Hall
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Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded the same respect.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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I've written 16 children's books and five unpublished novels. Some of the latter were breathtakingly bad.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.
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Mark Haddon
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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.
Author:
Mark Haddon
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I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
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Margaret Haddix
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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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Margaret Haddix
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The deadlines are much, much longer with books. When I was a reporter, a lot of times I'd come in at 8:30 a.m., get an assignment right away, interview somebody, turn the story in by 9:30, and have the finished story in the paper that landed on my desk by noon.
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Margaret Haddix
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Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
Author:
G. Gurdjieff
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Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.
Author:
Charles Guggenheim
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I am a really big Harry Potter fan and I've seen all the sets, I've lived Harry Potter and I don't think it's destroyed the books at all, I think it's really spot on.
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Rupert Grint
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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.
Author:
Rupert Grint
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One of the books we read a few years ago that had a big effect on us was Repeated Takes by Michael Chanan.
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Colin Greenwood
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I don't really have a lot of hobbies. I listen to a lot of spoken word. I get books on tape.
Author:
Benny Green
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Prose books are the show dogs I breed and sell to support my cat.
Author:
Robert Graves
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Even bad books are books and therefore sacred.
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Gunter Grass
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I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
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Sue Grafton
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I'm not sure Kinsey has changed in these first twelve books. I think the reader learns more about her, but from Kinsey's perspective, only three years have passed while the rest of us have been getting older at a much faster clip.
Author:
Sue Grafton
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One way an author dies a little each day is when his books go out of print.
Author:
William Goldman
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And, uh, I've got about six thousand cartoons up there, also books and papers.
Author:
Rube Goldberg
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Read books. They are good for us.
Author:
Natalie Goldberg
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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.
Author:
Fay Godwin
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Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
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Edward Gibbon
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
Author:
J. Getty
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I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.
Author:
Clifford Geertz
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This hand is not very active always, because it was in this hand that I carried my books. My carrying hand was always my strongest. Now I think my other hand has developed more muscles from signing all those autographs.
Author:
Haile Gebrselassie
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Books follow morals, and not morals books.
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Theophile Gautier
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We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.
Author:
Mohandas Gandhi
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How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.
Author:
William Gaddis
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I basically only read books that are over 2,000 years old.
Author:
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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I will try to write books until I drop dead.
Author:
Cornelia Funke
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Oh, I think every author is inspired by all of the books that she reads.
Author:
Cornelia Funke
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Second, there are so many magical places in books that you can't go to, like Hogwarts and Middle Earth, so I wanted to set a story in a place where children can actually go.
Author:
Cornelia Funke
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Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.
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Thomas Fuller
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I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
Author:
Stephen Fry
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I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.
Author:
Robert Frost
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My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.
Author:
Marilyn French
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I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.
Author:
Jonathan Franzen
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
Author:
Anatole France
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
Author:
Anatole France
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The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
Author:
E. Forster
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At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
Author:
E. Forster
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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.
Author:
C. Forester
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Author:
Wendell Ford
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I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.
Author:
Luke Ford
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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.
Author:
Ken Follet
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Read much, but not many books.
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Gustave Flaubert
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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.
Author:
Ralph Fiennes
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We are as liable to be corrupted by books, as by companions.
Author:
Henry Fielding
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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.
Author:
Leslie Fiedler
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Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.
Author:
Leslie Fiedler
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There are a couple of carp fishing books I've been reading. I'm very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.
Author:
Tom Felton
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I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too.
Author:
Tom Felton
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Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
Author:
William Feather
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
Author:
Oriana Fallaci
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Some books leave us free and some books make us free.
Author:
Ralph Emerson
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Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road, which is written from the viewpoint of a serial killer.
Author:
James Ellroy
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Author:
Charles Eliot
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Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Author:
Charles Eliot
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Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
Author:
Albert Einstein
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