Books Quotes
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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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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
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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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I tried to make sense of the Four Books, until love arrived, and it all became a single syllable.
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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 know all the books of the Bible.
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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?
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I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.
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I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
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When I did 'Alien: Resurrection', a lot of the guys worked on planned production, and one of them was really into comic books and would draw all sorts of characters, and I was impressed with his sketches.
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I love comic books and I love anime.
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my 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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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
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I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
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I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
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Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
