"It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books."
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"All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books."
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"A book that is shut is but a block."
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"Life was like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get."
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"Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it."
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"I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way."
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"The novels that get praised in the NY Review of Books aren't worth reading. Ninety-seven percent of science fiction is adolescent rubbish, but good science fiction is the best and only literature of our times."
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"I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn."
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"The cliché I tried to avoid was I hated "teenage sidekicks." I always figured if I were a superhero, there's no way on God's earth that I'm gonna pal around with some teenager. So my publisher insisted I have a teenager in the series, because they always felt teenagers won't read the books unless there's a teenager in the story; which is nonsense."
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"It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life"
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"I was in a job interview and I opened a book and started reading. Then I said to the guy 'Let me ask you a question. If you are in a spaceship that is traveling at the speed of light, and you turn on the headlights, does anything happen?' He said 'I don't know'. I said 'I don't want your job'."
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"The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again."
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"All really good picture books are written to be read five hundred times"
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"Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!"
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"No furniture is so charming as books."
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"What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want."
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"Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book"
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"Print will never die. There's no substitute for the feel of an actual book. I adore physically turning pages, and being able to underline passages and not worrying about dropping them in the bath or running out of power. I also find print books objects of beauty."
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"Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out."
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"The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside of skulls, to be perused by an invader. The mind is a complex and many-layered thing."
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