Gerald Kersh Quotes
But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
Quotes to Explore
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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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It's good to laugh at times that feel inappropriate.
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It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle.
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I blame myself for not often enough seeing the extraordinary in the ordinary. Somewhere in his journals, Dostoyevky remarks that a writer can begin anywhere, at the most commonplace thing, scratch around in it long enough, pry and dig away long enough, and lo!, soon he will hit upon the marvelous.
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But books, when you want to buy them, are costly and, when you need to sell them, valueless.
