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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people. — Colleen McCullough

For those who are going to learn from books, learning the art of reading would seem to be indispensable. — Robert M. Hutchins

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. — John Waters

All photos speak a thousand words. This one contained a library. — Rivera Sun

A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures. — Stephen King

I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art. — Dave Hickey

I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it. — Edward Hirsch

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books — Paracelsus

Wonderful craftsmanship, Simon decided with the expert eye of one who had played enough computer games to know art when he saw it. — Sorin Suciu

Ursula K. Le Guin urges authors to remember why they do what they do. Her argument is that writing is an form of art rather than a commodity. — Ursula K. Le Guin

The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art. — Russell Lynes

We sell books, other people sell shoes. What's the difference? Publishing isn't the highest art. — Michael Korda

I can do web, comic books, macrame, art. — Joss Whedon

It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher. — E.L. Konigsburg

The best kind of writing is that which comes from the authors soul. — Ndiritu Wahome

Books are my art. The movie is someone else's art. But it's great marketing for books. — Barry Eisler

Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall. — John Burnside

more to be a human being with — Gary D. Schmidt

Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think? — Jonathan Hull

Great art is in the eye of the beholder, but great football is in the record books. — Scott Sigler

Supporting a creative artist can mean buying their books, music, art, movie, and photographs or just shouting out their name. — Chris Mentillo

I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world. — Garry Kasparov

I think Mad saw in books what I saw in art: the weightless beauty of the universe. — David Arnold

It seems to me that not only the writing in most children's books condescends to kids, but so does the art. I don't want to do that. — Chris Van Allsburg

Readers are always surprised to learn that authors have little or no input regarding the cover art for their books. — Jane Lindskold

In art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions. — Jorge Luis Borges

You can't enjoy art or books in a hurry. — E.A. Bucchianeri

London thou art a jewel of jewels, & jasper of jocunditie -- music, talk, friendship, city views, books, publishing, something central & inexplicable. — Virginia Woolf

As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art
What dreams have these to hide from death! — Lola Ridge

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist. — Bruce Boxleitner

And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level. — Andrew Miller

In certain books - some way in the first few paragraphs you know that you have met a brother. — Robert Henri

Writing fiction is the act of weaving a series of lies to arrive at a greater truth. — Khaled Hosseini

Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help. — Alice Hoffman

I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing. — Zayn Malik

I think jazz and comic books are probably the two uniquely American art forms. — Len Wein

A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble. — Lori Lesko

I've done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I've been swindled all the same because it's never anything more. — Simone De Beauvoir

Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art. — Peter H. Reynolds

It is good to know one's enemy.
It is better to know one's self. — Max Hawthorne

While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy. — E.A. Bucchianeri

If we expose kids to books and art, nothing but good can come from it. — Kevin Henkes

There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk — Susan Pace-Koch

We are creatures made as much by art as by experience and what we read in books is the sum of both. — Andy Miller

Science fiction is the art of the possible not the impossible. — Ray Bradbury

Art, he said, isn't your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs. — Joey Comeau

Every year, humanity produces some 30,000 films, 2 million books and 100,000 albums, and 95 million people visit a museum or art gallery. — Alain De Botton

Wait a second, is a snooty book critic actually admitting to judging books by their covers? — Larry Correia

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing. — James Frey

Believe it or not, there were very few books on art, years ago. — James Rosenquist

I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas. — Jamie Wyeth

Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion. — Jane Smiley

Simon Stiegler, Literatur, Belletristik, Crime, Psychology, Philosophy, Art, children, Adult, books, author,Autor — Simon Stiegler

Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties. — Walter Moers

Just give me a thousand words and you may make your own pictures. — Erica Goros

Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books. — Peter M. Brant

Marshall McLuhan predicted books would become art objects at some point. He was right. — Woody Allen

They say all art - whether books, music, or visual - is a reaction to other art, — Blake Crouch

Without a doubt,
I must read,
all the books
I've read about.
See the artworks
hung on hooks,
that I have only,
seen in books. — Lang Leav

Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. — Susan Sontag

My favorite books, art pieces, films, and music, always have something jarring about them. — Pink

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry

There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art. — Thomas Kinkade

We still have pretty good sales, especially for the art books. — Glenn Danzig

Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. — Irving Stone

I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school. — Mal Peet

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again. — Michael Dirda

Every page should explode, either because of its staggering absurdity, the enthusiasm of its principles, or its typography. — Tristan Tzara

We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such an art is practicable. — Benjamin Disraeli

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art. — Robertson Davies

Whatever poetry that was in me was coming out in the form of constructing art books! — Stephen Vincent Benet

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things. — Dominique Swain

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. — Aubrey F.G. Bell

Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books. — Johnny Rich

Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary. — Boris Pasternak

I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette." — Jessica Simpson

Without books no one can be a good teacher nor even a good student of this art. — Fiore Dei Liberi

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. — Sol LeWitt

Remember The Poem ... — R.M. Engelhardt

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception. — G. E. M. Skues

Do not let reading become a forgotten art — Carmela Dutra

Three films a day, three books a week and records of great music would be enough to make me happy to the day I die. — Francois Truffaut

I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer. — Daniel Clowes

Writing is the Art, re-writing the craft. — O'Brien Browne

Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual. — Seth Godin

There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books. — Charlie Chaplin

What art and books do at their best is investigate why we are the way we are. — Philipp Meyer

Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly. — Tom Clancy

Things belong to the people that use them, not to the people who create them. — John Green

Dirty Freds ... I love this filthy old place. I love the dust and the dirt, the crappy old books and the objects of art. — Alan C. Martin

A blessing on the printer's art!
Books are the mentors of the heart. — Sarah Josepha Hale

I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books. — Zoe Wanamaker

One of the greatest creations of the human mind is the art of reviewing books without having read them. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury — Jeanette Winterson

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches. — Gary D. Schmidt

I figure whatever I choose to create, I'll be neglecting somebody - so my art may as well make me happy. - Audrey Niffenegger — Jen Campbell

Art made tongue-tied by authority. — William Shakespeare

Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other? — Peggy Kopman-Owens

As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books. — Cheech Marin