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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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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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 will say I am the sum of my books.
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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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Books are still my favorite present.
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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 I am, I take books, not novels.
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I think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
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My head was always in books.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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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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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 am not in the business of suppressing 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 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 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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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I don't read a lot of books.
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I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
