Nicholas Donabet Kristof (Nicholas D. Kristof) Quotes
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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It meant something to see people who looked like me in comic books. It was this beautiful place that I felt pop culture should look like.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.
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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.
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I don't normally have time to read, so when I go away I like to take a few books.
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I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies.
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I wouldn't like to see a chick of mine taking her clothes off and kissing a fellow on screen. And my girls must get very hurt when they see me doing it.
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Mom and Dad were bibliophiles. Dad shared his father's love of westerns, Mom favored the likes of Zelazny and Heinlein, Howard and Burroughs. We owned several hundred books stored in trunks that comprised our portable library.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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'Harry Potter' made it cool to read children's fiction, and 'Twilight' did the same for a slightly older age group. What I'm seeing is mothers and daughters who love to read the same books.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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I do not carry such information in my mind since it is readily available in books. ...The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.
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I don't have any great first job tales: I've never worked on a tramp steamer or in a coal mine or anything like that. I think the inspiration for my writing came largely from my father and the joy that life in books represented to me.
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
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Instead of asking for help, I just dig in and do everything myself.
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One of my daughters is a competitive jumper, we live with horses, we have stables on our property. But I don't ride. I observe, and I worry.
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If no one knows your book is out there, no one will think about buying it. It's as simple as that.
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It’s always surprising to me how many young women think they have to be perfect. I rarely meet a young man who doesn’t think he already is.
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The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
