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Don DeLillo's 'White Noise,' which I read when I was 19. It showed me that a book can be funny as hell and deadly serious. — Kevin Barry

Here is all I ask of a book- give me everything. Everything, and don't leave out a single word. — Pat Conroy

There isn't a book that has changed me, but I have favourites such as 'Pride and Prejudice' which I often re-read. — Carolina Herrera

Pleas'd me, long choosing and beginning late. — John Milton

I quit law in 1988 to start writing, and it took me 17 years from that point to get a book contract. I guess you can say I was on the slow train. — Ben Fountain

The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes. — John Grisham

Thank you God, for joy and good health, sadness and sickness, and the happiness, prosperity, and contentment you have given me. I love you! — Haresh Buxani

The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her to marry me all over again. — Nicholas Sparks

I knew exactly how I felt about Madoc. And I knew why I felt that way. I hated him. I hated what he did to me. But why in the hell did he hate me? — Penelope Douglas

I really, really wanted to lose awareness of the here and now. The best way for me to do that was bury myself in a book. — Charlaine Harris

It's such a thrill when an adult comes up to me and says, 'I read your book as a child and really loved it.' That's a tremendous compliment. — Katherine Paterson

I think Stevie Wonder could sing the phone book and manage to make me cry. — Brad Delp

I read over a hundred books a year and have done so since I was fifteen years old, and every book I've read has taught me something. — Nicholas Sparks

To sit in a big library amongst books and students, that was pretty cool. It was a novel experience for me. — Jonathan Taylor Thomas

What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily. — Christopher Morley

The words loved me and I loved them in return. — Sonia Sanchez

Always and Everywhere a Book Is Waiting for Me — Lidija Dimkovska

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more. — Bill Bryson

If I'm at a book signing, and someone decides to take me to task, it can make for quite a sticky moment. — Saul David

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd. — Kevin Spacey

I've got this thing for spicy stuff. Now, if you give me hot chocolate with chili pepper, a book and a bubble bath, I'm a happy girl. — Shiloh Walker

When I am dead and in my head
And all my bones are are rotten,
Take this book and think of me
And mind I'm not forgotten. — Flora Thompson

Usually for me, the melodic structures come out in the water and the lyrical ideas could come from a book I'm reading. — Jon Foreman

I am glad and thankful that my husband forced me to start reading for pleasure, as it took me years to listen to him and pick up a book! — Rachel Tucker

Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold. — Marianne Williamson

When you want to read the book, come read the book. When you want to come talk to me and be my friend, come talk to me. — Lil B

You're impossible," I growl, and rip open the book. Theron laughs and scoots a little closer to me. "Impossible, endearing. Synonyms, really. — Sara Raasch

I could never tell what was going on inside the pretty heads of the girls that Naoko brought along, and they probably couldn't understand me, either. — Haruki Murakami

I sit down and draw from my lyric book. I sit down and start looking through it and see if there is anything that strikes me that I've written. — Amy Ray

I call my golden retriever Cara my 'white wolf.' She's changed my attitude and made me write this book where the wolf is the hero, not the villain. — Debi Gliori

He said to me, 'The book has found its reader,' and what could I do but agree with him? — Thomas Ligotti

The sound of a crackling fire going in the fireplace, a nice warm blanket and a good book is just about heaven for me. — E.L. Grimm

If I am intuitively led to buy and read a book, what that means is that there is something there that will help me grow spiritually. — Echo Bodine

I really never even seriously considered a book but a few years ago someone approached me out of the blue and I said I would think about it. — Mark McNairy

Truth was, I didn't really want to die today. I was in the middle of a really good book, and being alive had always worked out for me ... — Jessica Fortunato

Jack Benny really liked my book. I know because he called me up from the library and told me. — Bob Hope

In my own book-signings, I find humility. It's always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books. — Nicholas Trandahl

You just read your books and go on a hundred miles away, You ignore me. — Barbara Kingsolver

Sam's world grew and grew with each book he finished. — Chris Priestley

Pretend you're not spending $3 to read one of my books but buying me a coffee and having a conversation about yourself. — Robin Sacredfire

Of Books and Scribes there are no end:
This Plague--and who can doubt it?
Dismays me so, I've sadly penned
Another book about it. — Robert W. Service

I am a bad reporter because everything seems to me worth reporting; and a bad reviewer because every sentence in every book suggests a separate essay. — Gilbert K. Chesterton

My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books. — Beverly Cleary

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us. — John Green

Other writers definitely influence my writing. What encourages me and inspires me is when I read a good book. It makes me want to be a better writer. — Kimberly Willis Holt

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day. — Louisa May Alcott

A book that bores me to tears is a book that neglects character building and quality of prose. — Kristin Cashore

No other woman has ever knocked me out and escaped from me. That makes you a special case in my book. — Terry Spear

And I don't know much about anything in this world but I do know how to read The book written in his eyes. The way he looks at me. — Tahereh Mafi

Exorcism is a subject that interests me, and books on shamanism, I've read through. — William S. Burroughs

It was a really strange and unique sort of process for me to adapt my own book. — Seth Grahame-Smith

For me, reading has to be pleasurable. Otherwise, I'm ditching the book and turning on Netflix. There's way too much good TV right now to write dull. — Christopher Noxon

I try to create new characters in each book I write. That's what makes writing fun and interesting for me. — Judy Blume

I take a book with me everywhere I go, and find there are all sorts of opportunities to dip in. — Stephen King

Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music. — Charles De Lint

I cried today. I wasn't sad. You showed me beauty that I had only seen in books and dreams. I now see it in you. — Jodi Hills

It depends on the book and what else is going on during my life, but it usually takes me about six months to write and revise the first draft. — Janette Rallison

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does. — David Baldacci

The sight washed over me like a damn wave that you never see coming until it's too late and you're face down eating sand. — Buffy Andrews

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact! — Freya Stark

The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine ... that I may for a time forget the cares of the world. — Hafez

No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then read my book. — Prakhar Srivastav

As a girl-twelve, thirteen years old-I was absolutely certain that a good book had to have a man as its hero, and that depressed me. — Elena Ferrante

I must say, in the case of "Room," both the book and the film, I don't think being a lesbian author held me back at all. — Emma Donoghue

Writing the book automatically made me accept myself and love myself more. — Erica Mena

I have specific playlists for different books and characters. So, I need to have those with me. It helps me get into the mindset of the book. — Cassandra Clare

If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. — Emily Dickinson

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me. — Betsy Byars

William Dalrymple called me a war junkie in his silly book. No, I don't have a desire for it. I'm appalled and infuriated by it. — Robert Fisk

People have told me, "Go write your book," and I said, "OK. — Millicent Ashby

so I drop the rock and cross my arms in front of me, suddenly self-conscious in the presence of two goddesses who look like comic book heroines. — Kevin Hearne

The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me. — Chelsea Handler

I think I write what's interesting to me, and so if I'm reading I like to have a very thorough idea of a character in a book that's by someone else. — Curtis Sittenfeld

If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time. — Tom Peters

Give me a book and I will learn how to live my life, but give me a boob, and I won't need to know the life. — M.F. Moonzajer

He took my hand, and pulled me into his living room where a book was open on his sofa. It was poetry, of course, because he was perfect. — Cora Carmack

It's just a book and a book can't leave me. A book can't decide who it wants to be with. — Cecily Anne Paterson

I cannot sit and think; books think for me. — Charles Lamb

You look all elegant and sleek, like some golden and black cat. Then you go all ghetto on me when a pretty book shakes its ass in front of you. — Rhys Ford

Book writing is a little different because, in my case, my editor is a year younger than me and basically has the same sensibility as me. — Chuck Klosterman

And I remember this man who never ran out of poems telling me once that "knowing a book by heart is like carrying a house inside your chest. — Hisham Matar

I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase. — Henny Youngman

Spider-Man initially made me want to come to New York and work for Marvel; I wanted to be a comic book artist. — Chris Columbus

I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me. — Danny Burstein

I didn't see how that applied to me, and reminded myself never to let a book replace my own thinking — Richard Bach

The way I challenge myself is by writing something that really engages me, that doesn't have an easy answer, and isn't always an easy book to write. — Jodi Picoult

Don't tell me what's in the Red Book. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it's a lot of crap. — Paul Martin

I surround myself with books when I write, thus surrounding myself with writers... only they don't critique me and then get up for coffee. — Ryan Lilly

What would make me happiest is if kids read these books [ Bink & Gollie] and think: there is so much to love in the world; and words are so much fun. — Kate DiCamillo

Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else. — George Plimpton

Please tell me you're not going to leave 'cause I'm dying to know what happens! I'm a romance reader and this is like a live action romance book! — Kelly Elliott

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those. — Dean Koontz

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. — Henri Cartier-Bresson

The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran. — Mahatma Gandhi

To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod. — Kelly Clarkson

Let me in, Emily, and I swear to you that you'll never regret it.
Ethan Sterling in Private Emotions — Elize Amornette

The sharing of a book is a statement - a message of affection that is also an act of self-revelation. Join my club, it says. Come and sit beside me. — Alexander McCall Smith

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it. — Ruby Bentall

He probably would have looked at me sideways and asked why I was trying to learn how to change my life by reading a book. — Hannah Brencher