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In general I ask for books that make use of learning, not those that build it up  (Books In General Quotes) Books for general reading always smell bad; the odor of common people hangs around them  (Books In General Quotes) I hope my books make statements about our general condition  (Books In General Quotes) I think I would have written more books if I’d had fewer kids or had them earlier, but I think the books in general would have had a little less spark to them.  (Books In General Quotes) A legacy is not what is recorded in history books or repeated in song, but what is woven into the souls of those who remain.(from The General’s Legacy)  (Books In General Quotes) I’m very successful, but there are 50,000 general interest books published every year. If you don’t want to read mine, there are others.  (Books In General Quotes) Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.  (Books In General Quotes) Mark Hopkins was one of the truest and best men that ever lived. He had a keen analytical mind; was thoroughly accurate, and took general supervision of the books, contracts, etc. He was strictly the office man, and never bought or sold anything. I always felt when I was in the East that our business in his hands was entirely safe.  (Books In General Quotes) In books or films, it is desirable to have a climactic battle scene, but the world does not operate in those gross dramatic terms. In Vietnam, there was a general aimlessness, not just in the physical sense, but beyond that in the moral and ethical sense.  (Books In General Quotes) I actually don’t read comic books. I did when I was a kid - I used to read a lot of ‘X-Men’ comic books. I read a couple ‘Scott Pilgrim’ this past year, and those are really good, but I don’t read in general, unfortunately.  (Books In General Quotes) Oh, I wish I organized my books. But I don’t. I’m not an organized person. The best I can do is put the books I really like in one sort of general area, and poetry in another.  (Books In General Quotes) There are a couple of carp fishing books I’ve been reading. I’m very interested in that line of books, because I think they write very well, carp anglers, about the general environment.  (Books In General Quotes) Readers in general are not fond of dialect, and I don’t blame them. I’ve read books myself that I’ve had to put down because sounding out every speech gave me a headache.  (Books In General Quotes) There are many thousands of books on particular assassinations and on the subject in general, but nearly all of them deal with the victims, not the perpetrators.  (Books In General Quotes) In general, I write for ages 12 and up - although I’ve received emails from readers between the ages of seven and seventy. My books are science fiction.  (Books In General Quotes) I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books  (Books In General Quotes) I’m not terribly conversant with children’s literature in general. I tend to read books for adults, being an adult.  (Books In General Quotes) My hatred of crowds, the obviousness of crowds, of anything en masse. Is this why I like little-known books? A general desire to escape the main world  (Books In General Quotes) And I know I’m supposed to feel guilty for wanting people to buy my books... and books in general? Novels and poetry, they belong to the realm of art. How dirty of us to try to hawk art! But, after a decade of hand-wringing and apologies, I can’t quite muster the guilt anymore  (Books In General Quotes) When I write, I’m still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There’s a special, tactile experience  (Books In General Quotes) It’s different in Scotland. People who come to readings are more interested in literature as such, but the readership in general is really quite diverse. It’s a cliche, but it’s said that people who read my books don’t read any other books, and you do get that element  (Books In General Quotes) I am personally not a lover of audiobooks in general, and I am indeed one of those people who don’t count listening to a book being read by someone else as actually having read that book. It simply is not reading  (Books In General Quotes)