Books Quotes
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A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.
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I'd love to see a good script of one of my books, in these years of animations and comic book sequels, and had so many written over the years, but none quite clicked.
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
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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 tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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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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When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.
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Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
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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 an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.
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I love comic books and I love anime.
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Great books are rare.
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If you don't write your books, there will be graveyards full of children.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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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 don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
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No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
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Travel teaches as much as books.
