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The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them. — Jackie Collins

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live. — Beth Moore

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James) — Nora Barnacle

Be knowledgeable in your niche, provide some information free of charge, and share other trustworthy people's free resources whenever possible ... — Heather Hart

I never wanted to write a book, and people have asked me for years to do it. — Billy Bob Thornton

My folks wouldn't read a book if you put a gun to their dicks. but they read people all day long and always get it right. — Pat Conroy

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. — Paulo Coelho

Most people, in fact, will not take the trouble in finding out the truth, but are much more inclined to accept the first story they hear. — Thucydides

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

When I read books it's to escape. It's so I don't have to talk to people. — Stephen Colbert

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it. — J.G. Ballard

Why do people always want to put their hands on vulnerability? I sped up. — Sloane Crosley

I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book. — Michael Azerrad

The best stories will come from jail, the people which are in the prison, also and from the victims. — Deyth Banger

I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book. — J.K. Rowling

The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing. — M.J. Rose

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

Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people. — Dana Stabenow

Why is it that people who wouldn't dream of stealing anything else think it's perfectly all right to steal books? — Helene Hanff

Writing a book is easy, getting people to read it is the hard part. — Jordon Sagel

I wanted my book to make people cry, but I feel like I'm the only person who my book is going to make cry, if they show me the sales numbers. — David Shapiro

It would be wonderful, she thought, to write a book which would help other people. — Alexander McCall Smith

It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book. — Stephen Chbosky

I meet people on the street or at book signings and they tend to treat me as if they know me, as if we're connected. It's great. — Judy Blume

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success. — George R R Martin

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? — John Ruskin

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers. — Joanne Kraft

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. — Jane Smiley

I am more emotionally attached to book characters than actual people in my life. — Unknownimous

With a book, she could at least visit with people, even if it was vicariously, even if they didn't exist beyond someone's imagination. — Lorraine Heath

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them. — Maria Mitchell

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. — Kurt Vonnegut

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought. — Kathryn Stockett

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does. — Michael Gerson

This is the right time
They are the right people
Will it be enough for mankind?

From "The Rishis: Book of Secrets. — Robert Delgado

Great books live longer than people.
They are gonna bury us all. — Patricia Nedelea

These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally. — Rush Limbaugh

People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier. — Andy Andrews

The day it went live on Kindle, 33 people visited my web site. I wish they'd all bought the book. — Marilynn Larew

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people. — Albert Einstein

A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it. — Sakyong Mipham

Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up — Alexandra Potter

This is no way to treat a book," he said. "Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them. — Terry Pratchett

I find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin; definitely not Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man. — A.E. Samaan

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book. — Margaret Drabble

I'm considering writing a self-help book and giving people 20 cents to read it. This way, I can be sure they all get new paradigms. — Ryan Lilly

I read in some book that if you try to hold people back too much when they're dying it keeps them from being reborn as a Buddha, — Banana Yoshimoto

I don't mind what people say about me. I've never read a book about myself. — Rupert Murdoch

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces. — Anis Mansour

You can't condemn an entire species of people because of the actions of one man. — Elizabeth Richards

This book is for people who get too much email, which is a bit like saying, "This book is for people who have email. — Alexandra Samuel

'Allegiance' is pretty much a book musical. You know, people talk and then they burst out into song. — Lea Salonga

People can't read a book if they don't know it exists. All authors need to do marketing, regardless of how they published. — Jo Linsdell

For me, it's writing a book and telling people about this story. — Rebecca Skloot

People often call 'If I Stay' my baby novel, and I have to correct them. It's not my first book. It's just the first one anybody paid attention to. — Gayle Forman

I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it. — Terry Bradshaw

If I ever wrote a book, people would never believe it. — Dick Dale

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

The only way to write a book, I'm fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That's how you write a book. — Anne Enright

I am writing this book for people like me -- the person I was ten years ago. — Michelle Alexander

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down. — Margaret Drabble

Michelle felt that if people didn't like the way they looked in her book then they should have behaved differently. — Michelle Tea

If we followed our feelings all the time, we'd be like cats chasin' their tails. — Harper Lee

You understood me; you helped me understand myself. If reading a book is a naked encounter between two people, I have known you nakedly for years. — Brian Morton

I have been photographing people dancing for 20 or 30 years now, and I think I will eventually do a book of dancing photos. — Martin Parr

I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt — Dave Sim

People are like books, unknown until they are opened. — Richard Paul Evans

I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways. — Neil Gaiman

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible. — Gordon Stein

The inevitable aftermath for being [People Of The Book] is turning into [Worshipers Of The Book]. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book. — Magus Tor

Anytime you start doing a comic book with mythology attached, people are like, "Are you going to get it right? It's important to me." — Tom Cavanagh

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent. — Phil McGraw

He wondered how many other people were lucky enough to have an entire universe of need satisfied by one blond-haired man. — John Wiltshire

I have done quite a few signings at bookstores, libraries and conferences. I have received phone calls and letters from people who liked the book. — Kate DiCamillo

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard. — David Walliams

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home. — Jackie French

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people. — Jamie Farr

If people-young and old-can get one thing from my book I hope it is this: that there dream do count, no matter how big or small. — April E. Brucker

I am inspired by positive people who have overcome difficult obstacles, motivational/spiritual books, nature, and my kids. — Andrea Navedo

I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me. — Lisa Scottoline

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark. — Daniel Handler

People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained. — Neil Strauss

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them. — Sandra Cisneros

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people. — Hamid Karzai

People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases. — Mark Twain

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Crime isn't pretty, only fashionably dressed. — S.W. Frank

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special. — Veronica Roth

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves. — Sam Brownback

Crazy people. They never think they're crazy. Their craziness makes perfect sense to them. — Rick Yancey

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers. — Veronica Roth

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people. — George Noory

Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more. — Susan Sontag

Why the brevity? Because I'd rather people read my book twice than only half-way through — Mohsin Hamid

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print. — James A. Michener

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury

People have incredible nerve to do terrible things, but never actually admit to them. — Henry Mosquera

I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have a baby. — Evelyn Waugh

I sent my words out onto the wind
to paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson