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"Gold, silver, jewels, purple garments, houses built of marble, groomed estates, pious paintings, caparisoned steeds, and other things of this kind offer a mutable and superficial pleasure; books give delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy."
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"There is danger in the concentration of control in the television and radio networks, especially in the large television and radio stations; danger in the concentration of ownership in the press...and danger in the increasing concentration of selection by book publishers and reviewers and by the producers of radio and television programs."
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"Then began an experience that turned my life around-working on a book with a black kid as hero. None of the manuscripts I'd been illustrating featured any black kids-except for token blacks in the background. My book would have him there simply because he should have been there all along. Years before I had cut from a magazine a strip of photos of a little black boy. I often put them on my studio walls before I'd begun to illustrate children's books. I just loved looking at him. This was the child who would be the hero of my book."
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"Open books, not legs. Blow minds, not guys"
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"The waitress comes over to me like, 'What'chu readin' for?' I had never been asked that. Not 'What am I reading?' but 'What am I reading for?' Goddammit, you stumped me. Hmm, why do I read? I suppose I read for a lot of reasons, one of the main ones being so I don't end up being a... waffle waitress."
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"If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads."
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"Books are a uniquely portable magic."
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"I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers."
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"Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming."
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"Do you know why I stopped being Delight, my brother? I do. There are things not in your book. There are paths outside this garden."
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"A home without books is a body without soul."
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"I have this belief that children become readers before they can read. They become hooked on books because they were read aloud to as a child."
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"Dance is low on the totem pole of the arts, because you're not left with a painting... a book that will stay there, a score you can read."
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"When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me."
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"The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt."
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"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."
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"If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work."
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"To me, one of the greatest triumphs in doing a book is to tell the story as simply as possible. My aim is to imply rather than to overstate. Whenever the reader participates with his own interpretation, I feel that the book is much more successful. I write with the premise that less is more. Writing is not difficult to me. I read into a tape recorder, constantly dropping a word here and there from my manuscript until I get a minimum amount of words to say exactly what I want to say. Each time I drop a word or two, it brings me a sense of victory!"
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"Lara walked along the tracks following a path worn by pilgrims and then turned into the fields. Here she stopped and, closing her eyes, took a deep breath of the flower-scented air of the broad expanse around her. It was dearer to her than her kin, better than a lover, wiser than a book. For a moment she rediscovered the purpose of her life. She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name, or, if this were not within her power, to give birth out of love for life to successors who would do it in her place."
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