#books

Pat Moynihan could write books with one hand and legislate with the other. I can't; I have a short attention span. The slightest distraction would take me away from writing. ↗

— Barney Frank

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I'd never have written the big books in London. ↗

— Jilly Cooper

#books #i #london #never #written

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books. ↗

— David Copperfield

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A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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I'm fortunate that the books sell, but even more fortunate to live in Chatham, to be very happily married and to have, on the whole, a fairly clear conscience. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

#clear #clear conscience #conscience #even #fairly

Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. ↗

— Doug Coupland

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It's a fact that more people watch television and get their information that way than read books. I find new technology and new ways of communication very exciting and would like to do more in this field. ↗

— Stephen Covey

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Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at. ↗

— Janice Dickinson

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All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

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