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Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.
One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us.
I funded this guy [Ted Cruz]. I gave him a check.You know why? I didn`t want to, but he sent me his book with his autograph.
The only thing I want is something I can't have; and that is to know if, 100 years from now, people will still buy my books.
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.
Age about 30, I stopped looking up my books in bookstores. Paying attention to the marketplace isn't a healthy thing for me.
If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.
The curious thing about individuals is that their singularity always goes beyond any category or generalization in the book.
A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.
The peace of great books be for you, Stains of pressed clover leaves on pages, Bleach of the light of years held in leather.
There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.
I am a huge comic book fan, and I love everything vintage: cars, movies, music, art, and style - especially the 1950s style.
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
Like my father, I am very impatient. I have a strong bullshit detector. I may finish one book in twenty that I have started.
I suppose I could collect my books and get on back to school, or steal my Daddy's cue and make a living out of playing pool.
Running a marathon is just like reading a good book. After a while you're just not conscious of the physical act of reading.
I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for books I love.
The book is a film that takes place in the mind of the reader. That's why we go to movies and say, "Oh, the book is better."
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Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.
What has happened in most of my books is the call to the extraordinary world, the hero's push, or that push has come to him.
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the wrong books.
A good book is fruitful of other books; it perpetuates its fame from age to age, and makes eras in the lives of its readers.
The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books.
I finish, like, one book in a day. That's my problem. That's why Kindle is good for me, because I put, like, 15 books in it.
My first book, 'Running Loose', was censored back in 1983 or '84. Every book I've written since has been censored somewhere.
Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.
The greatest pleasure in life is that of reading while we are young. I have had as much of this pleasure perhaps as any one.
The job of the first eight pages is not to have the reader want to throw the book at the wall, during the first eight pages.
I like a book to be full of the memory of what it is, a voice in an endless conversation, and yet at the same time to be new.
They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial Man.
The abuse of books kills science. Believing that we know what we have read, we believe that we can dispense with learning it.
This is a great tool for students as the book gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain.
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf - 'cause I'd alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
You would not serve junk food at a banquet, and your book must be a banquet. Get your language from Swift, not from Shopsy's.
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.
A good solo is like a book. It will start out in a phrase, it will go on in paragraphs, and then it will have a great ending.
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.
The best way to get kids reading more is to give them books that they'll gobble up - and that will make them ask for another.
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered into the pearly gates.'
The world is the book of women. Whatever knowledge they may possess is more commonly acquired by observation than by reading.
I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before.
Fortunate Newton, happy childhood of science. Nature to him was an open book. He stands before us strong, certain, and alone.
And although she was sometimes dissatisfied with herself, she felt unable to go beyond her own limitations. Books were safer.
When you start to talk about comic books, a lot of the time, people forget about the comic part of it. They need to be funny.
Professional reviewers read so many bad books in the course of duty that they get an unhealthy craving for arresting phrases.