Books Quotes
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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.
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Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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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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The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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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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Great books are rare.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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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 think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
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I don't write books inadvertently.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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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 left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
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Books are humanity in print.
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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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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
