Book Quotes
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There are good books and there are bad books, period, that's the distinction.
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If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
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If the election had turned out differently, I could be the one overseeing the signing of bailout checks and Vice President Biden could be on the road selling his book 'Going Rogaine.'
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The idea of the writer who writes nineteen novels, with various ups and downs and levels of experimentation, isn't around so much now. There's a focus, I think, on fewer books, with more pressure on each book to succeed. With that there comes, I think, a certain pressure towards shapeliness in fiction. Towards neatness. And I think writers feel that, and it can effect how they write.
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So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.
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A strong and bitter book-sickness floods one's soul. How ignominious to be strapped to this ponderous mass of paper, print, and dead men's sentiments!
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Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame.
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The difference between a novelist and someone who tinkers around with writing is this: novelists finish their books.
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I am never happy when I finish a book. I always start feeling good, and then I get to about Page 75 and start losing momentum - and I kind of pull it together at the end, but by then I think it's just all over. It's become almost a running joke among my agent and my editor - I always say that, so they don't take me seriously anymore.
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I loved Gore Vidal's Burr. That book gave me courage.
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If you can read, you can find books on anything you want. You can self-educate even if you can't afford to go to school.
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I have depended on books not only for pleasure and for the wisdom they bring to all who read, but also for that knowledge which comes to others through their eyes and their ears.
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There is no book so bad...that it does not have something good in it.
