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" Beware the man of one book. "

Saint Thomas Aquinas
" Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. "

W. H. Auden
" Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. "

Sir Francis Bacon
" The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. "

Walter Bagehot
" Where is human nature so weak as in the bookstore? "

Henry Ward Beecher
" You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters. "

Saint Bernard
" What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. "

Thomas Carlyle
" I made a series of wrong decisions about moderately recent books, and I've sold the rights to studios for ridiculous amounts of money and the films have never been made. That's the saddest thing of all, because they're locked up and no one else can make them. "

John Le Carre
" I think I have been better served by television than film. It also depends on the product itself, and there are some books that lend themselves more naturally to it. "

John Le Carre
" I think that there are books that I hope I will still write where I really would not wish a movie to be made. "

John Le Carre
" If I had to put a name to it, I would wish that all my books were entertainments. I think the first thing you've got to do is grab the reader by the ear, and make him sit down and listen. Make him laugh, make him feel. We all want to be entertained at a very high level. "

John Le Carre
" I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the people who write about this and made people think about it. I'm rather proud of the fact that I know several astronauts who became astronauts through reading my books. "

Arthur C. Clarke
" Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them. "

Charles Caleb Colton
" I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage. "

Puff Daddy
" I was immersed completely in the 'Harry Potter' world. I recognized that this was something exceptionally clever and very good and very well written, with a prospect of six more books to follow. So of course, this really whetted my appetite. "

Jim Dale
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