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I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books.

People who are readers of fiction aren't particularly interested in comic books.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

There were two free public libraries within walking distance of my home; I remember taking six books home from every visit, the limit set by the library.

Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

Yes, in my books I do edit myself to keep from becoming the Village Explainer.

You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the time, and when they do talk, what they say is mostly lies. That can make for a pretty confusing film.

I don't think the problem is that people don't read enough mystery books, but that people don't read.

I do like to explore evil characters in my books.

Books have led some to learning and others to madness.

Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good plays, good company, good conversation - what are they? They are the happiest people in the world.

A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.

All my books were easy to write - doesn't it show?

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.

Movies and television shows based on comic books constitute the worst single genre in the history of filmed entertainment (with the exception of porn).

People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.

I read everything and anything. I love books.

Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

Books do furnish a room.

Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.