Gerald Kersh Quotes
But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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I'm not a sandwich store that only sells turkey sandwiches. I sell a lot of different things.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I have great admiration for the fact – checking team. Considering it takes me years to gather all the facts in my books, it's a daunting task for the fact – checkers to review all of that material in a matter of weeks.
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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Let's be realistic, how many people are buying a $2,000 skirt? I love to design things that people can actually buy. I'm staggered by what a boot costs today.
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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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Books are still my favorite present.
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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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There are so many ways to tell a story. With multiplatform books, we are reimagining what literacy can be.
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I don't care how I got here. In the books, when you look at it 10 or 20 years from now, it's not going say how he got here, it's going to say he's here and he represented the team.
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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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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
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Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
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Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me.
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I am deeply moved when I write. I get turned on by it. I've never used any drugs for stimulation. I don't use words loosely. When I'm working and the right word comes, there is an answering resonance within me. There is also a hardness of intention that goes with it. There is no idleness in it.
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But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
