Books Quotes
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Some young men think they can learn how to be successful in politics from books, and they cram their heads with all sorts of college rot. They couldn’t make a bigger mistake.
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When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
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When you've written 10 books and have six on the New York Times best-seller list - and four have been No. 1 - I think you have a right to be a member of Congress.
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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.
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I read so many scripts, that I don't do that much leisurely reading of books.
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Don't write your books for people who won't like them. Give yourself wholly to the kind of book you want to write, and don't try to please readers who like something different.
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I think of writing--particularly of writing picture books--as a kind of choreography. A picture book must have pace and movement and pattern. Pictures and text should, together, create the pattern, rather than simply run parallel.
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Books were my pass to personal freedom.
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Books crowbar the world open for you.
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I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
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An artist’s life is all very fine and moving. But only in retrospect. In books.
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Books are the training weights of the mind.
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As for whether genre considerations influence what I write, they don't at all, but I might sell more books if they did. The Night Journal is a hodge-podge of historical fiction, western, mystery, and contemporary domestic drama. It doesn't settle into a specific market, reviewers have a hard time describing it, and sometimes it gets classified weirdly in bookstores. But from a writer's standpoint, I like that it's hard to categorize.
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Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long.
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Books are the most worthy companions to take with you on this bitter-sweet journey known as life.
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Read the books which they the ancients have written, read those which you prefer, they will speak to you and you will speak to them.
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He loved books; books are cold but safe friends.
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I cannot think of any work that could be more agreeable and fun than making books for children.
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OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.
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There will be books written about Harry. Every child in the world will know his name.
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Basbanes makes you love books.
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“Books can be the people we never get to meet, ancestors or far neighbors.”
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Books are the greatest and the most satisfactory of recreations. I mean the use of books for pleasure. Without books, without having acquired the power of reading for pleasure, none of us can be independent, but if we can read we have a sure defence against boredom in solitude.
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These books are all refreshingly clear-headed and unfashionable, free of cant and free of Kant;
