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These days, there are many people around the world who listen to the songs that made me infamous and read the books that made me respectable.

Days There Many People
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All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.

Books Common Good Had
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I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.
Babies Beef Books Want
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.

Books Connect Even Excite
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I have a brother and sister; my mother does not care for thought, and father, too busy with his briefs to notice what we do. He buys me many books, but begs me not to read them, because he fears they joggle the mind.

Because Books Brother Brother And Sister
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I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.

Books Closed Follow Novel
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I'm screamingly funny, you know, I really am in the books. And that helps because I'm funnier than a lot of people, I think, and that's appreciated by young people.

Am Appreciated Because Books
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My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

Books Folly Looks Me
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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.

Books Don Everything Five
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When I go on holiday and people ask me what I do, I tell them I do some internet stuff and I've done a couple of books and I hope they just leave it at that.

Ask Books Couple Done
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.

About Again Book Books
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Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books - especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

Against Art Be True Bible
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The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

About Books Keep New
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I've been told, and I think I recognize it, that there's a cinematic quality to my writing, with a sense of image and place and scene - and, some would say, my tendency to finish my books the way Hollywood finishes its films.

Been Books Cinematic Films
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Whatever the readers feel when they're reading my books, I feel it tenfold when I'm writing it.

Books Feel I Feel Readers
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I lay no claim, it should be clear, to being a historian. So in my books, the intimate and personal have been intertwined inextricably with the broad and historical.

Been Being Books Broad
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Ultimately, my books are not about the politics, although the toil and the struggle and the wars in Afghanistan have a significant impact on the lives of my characters.

About Afghanistan Although Books
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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Actual Avoided Books Electronic
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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

Books Me Success Surprise
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I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.

Asked Bookstore Defeat Me
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Any reflection about poetry should begin, or end, with this question: who and how many read poetry books?
About Any Begin Books
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Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

Heart Drives Characters Passionate
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I don't read books. I like to read newspapers and magazines, but I've never learnt to enjoy books or novels.

Books Enjoy Learnt Like
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May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, And many books, both true.

Books True Both Large
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Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.”
Lead Best Come Books
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Ere I descend to th' grave, May I a small house and large garden have; And a few friends, and many books.

Books Few Friends Garden
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It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died

Aim Effort History Life
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Books Calls Immoral Own
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

Alive Been Books Connected
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I find myself gravitating towards drama. It interests me. In the books I read, the paintings I like, it's always the darker stuff.

Always Books Darker Drama
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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Biggest Books Critics Never
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I have written 20 books, and each one is like having a baby. Writing is not easy; some people want to write books but just can't put a story together. I can put together a story that interests both me and my readers.

Baby Books Both Each
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.

Affair Authors Because Being
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All of my books have the potential to become movies, it's just a question of finding a studio who wants to get behind me and put up the money to make the movie.

Become Behind Books Finding
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The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Been Facts Foresee Future
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

My Alma Mater Was
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The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.

Books Learning Love Serenity
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A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books.
Across Better Books Conversation
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But everything of value about me is in my books.

About Books Everything Me
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
Am Books IAm Say
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I wanted to go into prison and come out a better person - mentally, physically. So, I read a lot of books, got my GED while I was in there, and worked out every day. Strong body, strong mind.

Better Better Person Body Books
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But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.

Books Lore Men More
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I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess.

Before Books Floor Furniture
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When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.

Been Books Cause Had
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My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best in the bookshops.

Best Countries Fantasy Fiction
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
Bible Genocidal History
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Books are all right, but dead men's brains are no good unless you mix a live one's with them.

Books Right Brain Dead
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Upon books the collective education of the race depends; they are the sole instruments of registering, perpetuating and transmitting thought.

Books Collective Depends Education
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I don't read books by people who have betrayed the Motherland.
Read Book People Motherland
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I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.

Another Books Five Four
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