Books Quotes
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Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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As children, in our own school of life, we soak up clues about our world just as eagerly as small squirrels. Exposure to children's books provides verbal and visual material to help us along the way. So subtle and varied can the lessons be that it may take years before we use everything we absorbed.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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Yes, we're pretty into books around my house. We have lots and lots of books around. We have TV, but really no one ever watches it.
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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.
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Books are humanity in print.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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As a youngster I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
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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 tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
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I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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My head was always in books.
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If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this – two books, some television and everything – I'd panic, I'd be scared.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
