Books Quotes
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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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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 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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Wherever I am, I take books, not novels.
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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 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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Books are humanity in print.
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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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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 am not in the business of suppressing books.
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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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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 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 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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I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
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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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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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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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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
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My head was always in books.
