#books

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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I write books that seem more suitable for children, and that's OK with me. They are a better audience and tougher critics. Kids tell you what they think, not what they think they should think. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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There are certain pieces of music that are always attached to certain books. ↗

— Maurice Sendak

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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. ↗

— Peter Shaffer

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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press. ↗

— Nate Silver

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One of the things that often frustrates me with cookbooks is that there are one or two recipes that are really good and the rest of them are not so great. ↗

— Alicia Silverstone

#frustrates #good #great #me #often

It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my mother. I never met my grandmothers or my grandfathers. They were all wiped up in the gas chambers of Nazi Germany. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#chambers #gas #gas chambers #germany #grandfathers

Television and comic books are, and continue to be, probably the biggest influence in my life. It's the biggest influence on everybody's life. ↗

— Gene Simmons

#biggest influence #books #comic #comic books #continue

I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections. ↗

— Bauvard

#character #funny #humor #weight #funny

People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination. ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

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