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In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.
Dean Koontz

Experience, End, Problem

I like to deal with EVERY aspect of our condition, and that means terror and humor in equal mix. Some books have more room for humor than others.
Dean Koontz

Humor, Others, Means

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years.
Dean Koontz

Past, Long, Wish

Home base is the support system where we have a culinary team, my own writers because of the shows and the books and stuff, we have a culinary team of about six people. Marketing, public relations, accounting and all that sort of stuff.
Emeril Lagasse

Home, Team, Support

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.
Emeril Lagasse

May, Whatever, Whether

The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang

Life, Wise, Both

The problem is we don't know what the climate is doing. We thought we knew 20 years ago. That led to some alarmist books - mine included - because it looked clear-cut, but it hasn't happened.
James Lovelock

Thought, Problem, Knew

Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Knowledge, Science, Writing

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Truth, Few, Satisfied

But everything of value about me is in my books.
V. S. Naipaul

Everything, Value

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V. S. Naipaul

End, Write, Lives

I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.
Gary Oldman

Movies, Two, Small

It's always hard when you're playing someone for a lot of people out there who are going to see the movie after reading the books. There's a communion between a reader and the writer, so people will have an idea who Sirius Black is and I might not be everyone's idea of that.
Gary Oldman

Someone, Hard, Black

The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read - those are important to me. It's very important to me, and I don't know what I would do without those things.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Music, Movies, Important

You've got all these books on self help, getting to know yourself, doing the right thing, eating the so-called right foods, even down to what books you have on your shelves. People are encouraged to look to themselves first as opposed to being a part of society.
Samantha Morton

Society, Yourself, Help

I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
Salman Rushdie

Play, Become, Story

In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they know me from reading the papers and those who really know me by reading my books.
David Icke

Down, Two, Reading

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
Gilbert Highet

Minds, Alive, Paper

When I was a child I devoured every book I could get my hands on. I loved losing myself in colourful and dramatic stories - and my absolute favourite was 'Charlie And The Chocolate Factory.' Everything about it electrified me, and when I re-read Roald Dahl's books as an adult it surprised me.
David Walliams

Book, Everything, Child

When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.
Joyce Carol Oates

Life, Saying, Reality

Deep-versed in books and shallow in himself.
John Milton

Himself, Shallow

Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches.
Pete Seeger

Won, Songs, Neither

My parents both had Oxford degrees, they read important books, spoke foreign languages, drank real coffee and went to museums for pleasure. People like that don't have fat kids: they were cut out to be winners and winners don't have children who are overweight.
Arabella Weir

Children, Parents, Important

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go.
Jason Mraz

Work, Age, Power

Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it.
Wole Soyinka

Mind, Human, Writing

If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?
Bette Midler

Sex, Natural, Phenomenon

In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
Mortimer Adler

Good, Through, Point

For many years I had heard about an underworld consisting of people who act out a vampire fantasy while I was living in New York. Fortunately for me there are also several books on the phenomena.
James Patterson

Living, While, Act

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker

I was quite a weird kid because I didn't like getting presents. I don't know why. I just went for books all the time.
Ellie Goulding

Time, Why, Getting

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