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As I got into my teens, I started reading better books, beginning with the Beats and then the hippie writers, people like Wallace Stegner up in Northern California, and all the political New Journalism stuff, the Boys on the Bus dudes and Ken Kesey. Stephen Gaghan

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I want my books sold on airport bookstalls. Stephen Hawking

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I love the movies, and when I go to see a movie that's been made from one of my books, I know that it isn't going to be exactly like my novel because a lot of other people have interpreted it. But I also know it has an idea that I'll like because that idea occurred to me, and I spent a year, or a year and a half of my life working on it. Stephen King

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I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part. Sue Grafton

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I care a great deal about LGBT U.S. servicemen and women being able to serve openly and honestly. Since early in my career, I've included realistic LGBT characters in my books. The idea that a gay Navy SEAL had to hide who he was in order to serve was a terrible one - and I made sure my readers knew that! Suzanne Brockmann

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The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most. Theodore Parker

You Think Books Those Most Make Which Help

The true university of these days is a collection of books. Thomas Carlyle

Books Collection True Days University

Most of us cluster somewhere in the middle of most statistical distributions. But there are lots of bell curves, and pretty much everyone is on a tail of at least one of them. We may collect strange memorabilia or read esoteric books, hold unusual religious beliefs or wear odd-sized shoes, suffer rare diseases or enjoy obscure movies. Virginia Postrel

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The real war will never get in the books. Walt Whitman

War Will Books Never Real Get Real War

Fifty percent of all meaningful education takes place in the home. What do you share with your child? You share your interests. I was a book person. I read with my son. My wife is an artist. She dragged his little butt around to museums. He's an illustrator of children's books. Walter Dean Myers

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I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then. Walter Kirn

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I mainly buy books in my free time. Wesley Snipes

Buy Time Free Books Free Time Mainly

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. William Butler Yeats

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. Salman Rushdie

Creation Books Entirely Rational Authors Act Choose Conscious

The earliest books in the New Testament to be written were the Epistles, not the Gospels. It's almost as though Saint Paul and others who wrote the Epistles weren't that interested in whether Jesus was real. Richard Dawkins

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I really like knowledge and reading books and just generally immersing myself in information. Adam D'Angelo

Myself Knowledge Reading Books Generally Like Reading Books Just Information Really

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. A. S. Byatt

People Everybody Everybody Else Else Books More Always Expect Than Interested

I think literary theory has not been terribly good for English studies in a while. It's not that theory isn't interesting, but it isn't about books, or the idiosyncrasies and complexities of putting language together. A. S. Byatt

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I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling. A. S. Byatt

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