Books Quotes
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I love books.
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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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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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A love of books has opened so many doors for me. Stories have inspired me and taught me to aspire.
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Since I was trying so hard to make books lead my life, I didn’t want to read them and then just put them back on the shelf and say, “good book,” as if I was patting a good dog. I wanted books to change me, and I wanted to write books that would change others.
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
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Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
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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 buy way too many books.
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Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for today’s dollars, especially when it’s obvious that the source in question doesn’t have any more dollars to give you.
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If you don't write your books, there will be graveyards full of children.
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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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Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
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I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as invented stories are; it has the taste of nonsense and chaos, of madness and dreams -- like the lives of all men who stop deceiving themselves.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books.
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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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I never wrote my books especially for 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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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
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Great books are rare.
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There are many reluctant young readers who haven't yet found books that make them laugh.
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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.
