Books Quotes
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Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
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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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If you don't write your books, there will be graveyards full of children.
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I just try to write entertaining books that are easily identifiable.
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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 buy way too many books.
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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 was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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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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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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Superheroes are best imagined in comic books. The union between the written word, the image, and then what your imagination has to do to connect those allows for so much.
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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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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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Great books are rare.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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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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Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'
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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 love comic books and I love anime.
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I never wrote my books especially for children.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?
