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My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.
Terry Pratchett

Time, Book, Old

I think when people mean that Discworld books have become darker they really mean the series is growing up. In 'The Colour of Magic' most of the city is set alight. It's a joke, in much the same way that the Earth is destroyed almost at the start of Douglas Adams's 'The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.'
Terry Pratchett

Mean, Same, Become

I like writing. I get cranky when I can't. Yes, I write books back to back, and I work very hard on them.
Terry Pratchett

Work, Writing, Hard

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about 'Wind in the Willows' and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought - you know about 'The Wind in the Willows.'
Terry Pratchett

Everything, Done, Thought

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.
Roger Waters

Love, Words, Else

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.
Dean Koontz

Give, Sometimes, Rather

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emile M. Cioran

Write, Anyone, Dare

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.
Wole Soyinka

Truth, Writing, Wish

I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
Michael Caine

Mad, Read, Influence

I live alone, with cats, books, pictures, fresh vegetables to cook, the garden, the hens to feed.
Jeanette Winterson

Alone, Live, Pictures

The difference between people who believe they have books inside of them and those who actually write books is sheer cussed persistence - the ability to make yourself work at your craft, every day - the belief, even in the face of obstacles, that you've got something worth saying.
Jennifer Weiner

Work, Yourself, Saying

I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time.
Emma Watson

Time, Book, Place

Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another.
Bono

Greatest, Person, Give

My working-class Italian-American parents didn't go to school, there were no books in the house.
Martin Scorsese

School, Parents, House

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.
Slavoj Zizek

Alone, Happy, Child

The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.
Hugh Jackman

Care, Moment, Kids

Comic book fans have loved Wolverine, and all the 'X-Men' characters, for more than the action. I think that's what set it apart from many of the other comic books. In the case of Wolverine, when he appeared, he was a revolution really. He was the first anti-hero.
Hugh Jackman

Book, Revolution, Action

Books, I don't know what you see in them. I can understand a person reading them, but I can't for the life of me see why people have to write them.
Peter Ustinov

Life, Person, Understand

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.
Knut Hamsun

Art, Here, Makes

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games.
Ang Lee

Important, Kids, Read

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
J. Paul Getty

Through, Value, Chief

I admire the world of the books and the characters that she's created, but I'm not an addict of Harry Potter. I don't feel possessive about it.
Ralph Fiennes

She, Characters, Admire

I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'.
Daniel Radcliffe

Love, Good, God

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
Paul Valery

Fire, Same, Weather

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don't know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying - please let me live until I am finished.
Haruki Murakami

Live, Book, Die

I've always had great respect for Paddington because he is amusingly English and eccentric. He is a great British institution and my generation grew up with the books and then Michael Horden's animations.
Stephen Fry

Great, Respect, Generation

And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence to have their own library card and enjoy borrowing books.
Sarah Jessica Parker

Children, Real, Give

There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

Water, Drink, Dogs

I believe in communication; books communicate ideas and make bridges between people.
Jeanette Winterson

Between, Ideas, Bridges

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.
Liam Neeson

God, Reading, Absence

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