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An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

About Almost Author Bad
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I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Book Bored Readers Done
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Read much, but not many books.
Books Many Much Read
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I like to read books. I like to listen to music.
Books Like Listen Music
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My priority is my books, at least at this point. What I have to do is write the narrative of this time.

Books Least Narrative Point
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Many people tell me that they don 't know what to feel when they finish one of my books because the story was dark, or complicated, or strange. But while they were reading it, they were inside my world and they were happy. That's good.

Because Books Complicated Dark
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I had no ambition to be a writer because the books I read were too good, my standards were too high.

Ambition Because Books Good
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In Western Civilization, our elders are books.
Western Civilization Elders Books
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

Books Good Heavy Discipline
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Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life.

Actually Books Closer Human
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I have spent more time with other people's books than with my own. I do not regret it.
Spent Time People Books
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I don't read books much

Books Much Read
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My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Based Books Documentary Evidence
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Attitudes Books Changed Find
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

Books Enough Kept Long
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Each of my books is different. Deliberately... I wanted to create my society, my people, in their fullness.

Society Fullness People Create
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I did the traditional thing with falling in love with words, reading books and underlining lines I liked and words I didn't know. It was something I always did.

Always Books Did Falling
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Books are as useful to a stupid person as a mirror is useful to a blind person.
Books Useful Stupid Person
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'Comic book' has come to mean a specific genre, not a story form, in people's minds. So someone will call 'Die Hard' a 'comic-book movie,' when it has nothing to do with comic books. I'd rather have comics be the vehicle by which stories are told.

Book Books Call Come
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...you must have brought something. Books? I never saw you without a green bag of books.

You Must Brought Books
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I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books.

Pass-mark Math Mathematician Use
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Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.
Avoid Books Characters Colorful
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There was once a king's son. Nobody had so many or such beautiful books as he had. He could read about everything which had ever happened in the world, and see it all represented in the most beautiful pictures.

King Son Nobody Many
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Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be doing in their day. The work is done and the virtue of the book has expired.

Book Books Day Doing
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All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

Arisen Blunders Books Dancing
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Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Design Pride Dead Repair
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A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books.

Man Losses Reality Surrounded
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
Books Consolation Derive Life
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To read too many books is harmful.

Read Books Many Harmful
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.

Consider Proof Written Books
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Books can capture injustices in a way that stays with you and makes you want to do something about them. That's why they are so powerful.

Books Capture Injustices Stays
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Books are mute as far as sound is concerned. It follows that reading aloud is a combination of two distinct operations, of two 'languages.' It is something far more complex than speaking and reading taken separately by themselves.

Aloud AsFarAs Books Combination
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

Beauty Body Books Bringing
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.

Afford Basically Books Britain
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I'd always liked to read, but when I picked up books I wasn't getting the same kind of excitement from them that I was from going out clubbing. I wanted to get the same kind of feel.

Always Books Clubbing Excitement
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I think one reason my books have found mainstream success is that they're written from a skeptical point of view.

Books Found Point Reason
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I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold.

Blank Face Books Care
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.

Books Genre Like Love
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I love to learn, and at some level, there's something to learn from my books. And I love art and philosophy, so there's something philosophical about my fiction.

Art Books Fiction Learn
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I'm trying to write books that taste like ice cream but have the nutrition of vegetables.

Nutrition Cream Books Taste
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There are so many books I want to read. Difficult books. That's what I intend to do and what I'm longing for.

Books Difficult Intend Longing
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A scarcity of books and equipment has rendered our schools into desolate deserts of ignorance.
Scarcity Books Equipment Schools
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The new spirituality will bring about what I'm calling the 'end of better.' And that is in fact what is called for in the next of the series of books that I've been writing.

About Been Better Books
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I'm calling my book series the 'with God series.' And this next 'with God' book is Friendship with God, which comes out in November. This books challenges us to bring about the end of 'better' on this planet.

About Better Book Books
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Everyone seems to see bleakness and despair in my books. I don't read them that way. I see myself as writing comic books, books about ordinary people trying to live ordinary, dull, happy lives while the world is falling to pieces around them.

About Around Book Comic
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I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

Anyone Books Exclude Excluded
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The whole purpose of books is that we read them, and if you find you can't, it might not be your inadequacy that's to blame. 'Good' books can be pretty awful sometimes.

Awful Blame Books Find
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I only want to write books and movies about women.
About Books Movies Only
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I do a lot of books on tape for Beverly Cleary, and another 'Smurfs' shout-out for that demographic.

Another Beverly Books Demographic
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I can't stand it when writers moan about what film-makers might do or have done to their books. There's a very simple answer: don't take the money.

About Answer Books Done
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