Books Quotes
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I think writing books is a way for me to work out certain issues. I write about what matters to me, always.
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What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
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I can only remember two books from college that moved me: E.M. Forster's 'Howards End' and F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby.'
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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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There are great books in this world and great worlds in books.
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Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.
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Like books and black lives - albums still matter. Tonight and always.
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In my twenties, it was so important for me to show people I had all these other books and these other sorts of writing in me, .. A lot of authors, if their first book is a success, they're terrified to write a second one. But in my case, since the first book wasn't considered a literary book, I was really determined to show people I could do other types of writing.
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I gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
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Every person who reads your book will be far more likely to be on your side. Books are the most intensive of all current media. People are willing to spend hours and hours with a book.
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I've written five books, a book every three years. I'm fairly lazy and it doesn't take that much...people who are not lazy are Isaac Asimov.
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My work stops at publication. If the books don't contain in themselves their reasons for being - questions and answers - it means I was wrong to have them published.
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Have books ‘happened’ to you? Unless your answer to that question is ‘yes,’ I’m unsure how to talk to you.
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Believe one who has tried, you shall find a fuller satisfaction in the woods than in the books. The trees and the rocks will teach you that which you cannot hear from the masters.
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Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of what difficulties a woman must surmount to get off a tolerable production.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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I don't sell enough books to pay for the lawyers, however. And these various problems finally became too much.
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I like good books and clever conversation and being left alone much of the time.
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It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.
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If you aren't a reader and you have a kid with his face buried in books, it can be a bit threatening. My parents viewed my reading as somewhat effeminate, but also subversive on some level.
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But it is impossible, I find, to tidy books without ending by sitting on the floor in the middle of a great untidiness and reading.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
