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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are markers, that put things into relief. That's why we like movies and books so much.

Books are challenging and inspirational to me.

Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.

At each of these northern posts there were interesting experiences in store for me, as one who had read all the books of northern travel and dreamed for half a lifetime of the north; and that was - almost daily meeting with famous men.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

If you read my books, especially the Star Trek books and the Quest for Tomorrow books, you'll see in them the core theme of the basic humanistic questions that Star Trek asked.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

The part of my writing I find the most rewarding is when people write to me or speak to me in public to tell me how his or her life has been changed by my books.

His knowledge of books had in some degree diminished his knowledge of the world.

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar.