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Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.

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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 ...more

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Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding.

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When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, 'Why god? Why me?' and the...more

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Without story books is like a person with no soul.

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I was in enough to get along with people. I was never socially inarticulate. Not a loner. And that saved my life, saved my sanity. That and the writin...more

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How to Draw a Picture (XII)Know when you're finished, and when you are, put your pencil or your paintbrush down. All the rest is only life.

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If you fell outward to the limit of the universe, would you find a board fence and signs reading DEAD END? No. You might find something hard and round...more

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And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't ca...more

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If I show up at your house ten years from now and find nothing in your living room but The Readers Digest, nothing on your bedroom night table but the...more

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Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent.

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I know how bad you boys feel, but the sun will still come up tomorrow. And when it does, you 'll feel better. When the sun comes up the day after tomo...more

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A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're...more

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Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful