Books Quotes
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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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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.
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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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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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Look for inspiration in books, magazines, and even other people's homes - then be brave and take a chance with a room in your home.
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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 don't write books inadvertently.
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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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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
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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 think that children who read are better writers, and children who tell stories appreciate books.
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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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.
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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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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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My favourite author as a child and teenager, and who I still re-read now, is K. M. Peyton. She writes very truthfully; sometimes I'm not sure if I've actually done things or just experienced them in her books.
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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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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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Great books are rare.
