Books Quotes
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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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If you're smarter than me, you shouldn't be reading my books.
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Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
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I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.
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The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new.
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But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.
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The wise are above books.
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Jacqueline Rose was so wonderful in so many ways, and I was really blessed to be her daughter. Of all the things I am because of her - there's no question: I am a writer because of her love of books.
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My main wish is to get my books into other people's rooms, and to keep other people's books out of mine.
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Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people.
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Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
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I buy books, I have shelves of books. I love to read.
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I don't have many possessions, apart from my books.
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When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
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I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.
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I'd love to go back to school for philosophy. I love philosophy, so I'm always reading philosophy books, annoying my girlfriend with that type of stuff.
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I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
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Books are my weakness.
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I'm the weird person who completely loved and devoured 'Middlemarch' but who has not finished far shorter and more readable books due to distraction or the fact that by some miracle I am sleeping through the night.
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My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
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It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as those which will be written after him.
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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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To move up to hardcover is a way of getting more attention for my books. It means a lot to me: It means my books are legitimate.
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The world of books is the most remarkable creation of man nothing else that he builds ever lasts monuments fall; nations perish; civilization grow old and die out; new races build others. But in the world of books are volumes that have seen this happen again and again and yet live on. Still young, still as fresh as the day they were written, still telling men's hearts, of the hearts of men centuries dead.
