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" Quotes and Sayings About my books

I'm not into fame. I'm not into making money, outside of financing my books. I'm not into status. My thing is basically about time - not wasting it.

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I've spoken in every state in the union, meeting and hugging the people who later bought my books. I spoke to anybody who wanted to hear me, including 1,000 nuns who could pay me only with homemade bread.

Anybody Books Bought Bread
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'Talking Peace' is one of the few books from childhood that I still keep prominently displayed on my bookshelf.

Books Childhood Displayed Few
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It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

About Always Because Books
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The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

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What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

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I don't read my books, I write them. Once I've finished the many years it usually takes me to write them, I can't bear to read them, because I've spent too long with them already. I'm not advertising them very well, am I?

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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.

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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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The bewildering success of my books continues to surprise me.

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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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The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
Biggest Books Critics Never
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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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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.
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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 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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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!

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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

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I'm only a novelist on occasion. Many of my books are made up of brief texts collected together, short stories, or else they are books that have an overall structure but are composed of various texts.

Books Brief Collected Composed
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I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life.

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Twitter is fun because it lets me stay in touch with all my original readers who grew up with my books. I love hearing from readers instantly on Twitter.

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I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real.

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I would say the flip side to my fascination with systems is a fascination with components. So many of my books are dialogues between little and big.

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I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

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I always sympathize with people who complain about the length of my books. It would take me a year to get through one of them.

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I type most of my books for the first chapter or two - I use a manual typewriter for the first 50 pages or so - and then I move to the computer. It helps me keep the work lean so I don't end up spending 10 pages describing a leaf.

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Here stand my books, line upon line They reach the roof, and row by row, They speak of faded tastes of mine, And things I did, but do not, know.

Books Roof Speak Faded
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

My books Anoint me Few friends Reach
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I get a warm feeling among my books.

Warm feeling My books
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All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companion, to feel they're not alone in the world.

For people They read My books Feel companion
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When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

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