Books Quotes
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Sparky's the only guy I know who's written more books than he's read.
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I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.
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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.
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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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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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Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
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My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.
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Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.
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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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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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Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books.
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I don't write about myself. I'm never in my books.
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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 priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.
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She would go off in the morning with the punt full of books, and spend long glorious days away in the forest lying on the green springy carpet of whortleberries, reading. She would most diligently work at furnishing her empty mind. She would sternly endeavour to train it not to jump.
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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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In my books, my idea is always to explore social context and social forces.
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What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces.
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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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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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When western books are set in the present, critics seldom call them westerns: the national myth allows the West only a past.
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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 gleaned more practical psychology and psychiatry from the Bible, than from all other books!
