#books

So the books have a greater appeal to a British audience, but that hasn't stopped them making best-seller lists in places like Brazil, Japan and at least a dozen other countries. ↗

— Bernard Cornwell

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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

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Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained. ↗

— Patricia Cornwell

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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me. ↗

— Jack Vance

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I do read books. I suppose it's more or less the same thing, but at least I'm alone and I'm an individual. I can stop anytime I want, which I frequently do. ↗

— Jack Vance

#anytime #books #frequently #i #i can

It is one of the more striking generalizations of biochemistry - which surprisingly is hardly ever mentioned in the biochemical textbooks - that the twenty amino acids and the four bases, are, with minor reservations, the same throughout Nature. ↗

— Francis Crick

#amino #bases #biochemical #biochemistry #ever

My mother is an artist, and I have a strong visual sense. I almost always choose the cover art for my books. I've learned that the more I collaborate, like by having someone do a soundtrack to one of my books, the more I see my own work differently. ↗

— Jeff Vandermeer

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Virginia Woolf came along in the early part of the century and essentially said through her writing, yes, big books can be written about the traditional big subjects. There is war. There is the search for God. These are all very important things. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. ↗

— George William Curtis

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Actually, the books were never a planned career path. ↗

— Jamie Lee Curtis

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