Books Quotes
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While I've never asked my publisher to pull one of my books off the shelves, I have deleted tweets or blog posts that have drawn criticism.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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I believe it’s something that happens when one is around art, and when one is close to books: they seep into your system, into your blood, and start to activate something in your life. We start living in the way that some of these characters live, with some sense of their sensibility. It’s almost as if the reader becomes the writer and the writer becomes the reader…
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I don't write down my experiences, but I have a very decent memory. I have tons of books in which I write down phrases as they occur to me. That's how I write songs. I'll need a line and I'll go through the books and find it, the right rhyme and everything.
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Books were king, but now movies are king, and books are sort of ignored. So now there's no sense of a welcoming community where you live.
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I have published so many books in so many years. I can't complain about any lack of attention. But I've never been placed as a Southern writer, which I really am. So I was happy finally to be published by someone in the South.
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Lost in my dreams, I somehow cross at the traffic signals, bumping into street lamps or people, yet moving onward, exuding fumes of beer and grime, yet smiling, because my briefcase is full of books and that very night I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know.
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Books don't harm kids; they arm them.
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Most of my books have caused distribution and printing problems in the past.
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The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books.
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I love books that give you space to climb inside there. And you have to run to keep up in places, and you have to fill in a lot of blanks yourself. So it almost becomes your story.
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I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world.
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...I will not allow books to prove any thing." "But how shall we prove any thing?" "We never shall.
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And I still buy books at B&N, Borders and Elliot Bay ... I probably shouldn't admit this. But I don't care. I love great bookstores.
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I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion. I hadn't heard of the books, but I was told they were very popular amongst the kids, so I got a hold of them and read them. I totally got it!
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I have more than 100 legal pads filled with handwriting. Eight novels, two books for children, countless stories and essays.
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Books were to my family's house like beds and stoves, the most basic items, necessary for survival.
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I've never received a dollar royalty to any of my books because I feel, as a slave everything that I have is a gift of my messenger.
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I believe in books.
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Without reserve, I can say that my entire identity is in the books I write.
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You're perfect for each other, she had insisted. "both of you act like you're already retired, always stuck at home reading books.”
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book.
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I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.
