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Books make the best ersatz friendships.
— Nenia Campbell
Write it down and it will come alive.
— Efrat Israeli
Some people read books for fun.
— Richelle Mead
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
— Ernest Hemingway,
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.
— Dorothy Parker
My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.
— Writer's Digest Books
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
— Gail Carson Levine
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
— Julian Barnes
As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.
— Carlo Collodi
Does one ever read a politician's books?
— Gore Vidal
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
— Winston S. Churchill
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
— Danny Tyran
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.
— Joe Queenan
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.
— Desmond Tutu
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
— Julien Green
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
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
— Virginia Woolf
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
— Malorie Blackman
Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books.
— Robert Bolt
When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books.
— Stephen Baldwin
Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled.
— Barbara Tuchman
Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.
— Scott Westerfeld
[My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.
— Sarah Winman
They were just stories, but stories weren't just anything.
— Rainbow Rowell
Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.
— C.C. Wyatt
As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
— Lauren Willig
'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.
— Juliette Binoche
We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map.
— Howard Schultz
However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can't quite reach.
— Peter Turchi
Read good books to improve your life.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.
— Trenton Lee Stewart
Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.
— Donald J. Bingle
Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes.
— Janet Evanovich
I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins.
— Demetri Martin
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
— Kate Thompson
If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
— Brett Armstrong
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply there is a book.
— Scarlett Thomas
Books liked her. Books wanted to look after her.
— Sarah Addison Allen
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence.
— Philip Pullman
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
— Jackie Kennedy
I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction.
— Wallace Stevens
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
— Karin Slaughter
I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.
— R.L. Stine
With a book he was regardless of time.
— Jane Austen
If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success?
— Jerry Seinfeld
You know, I don't only play for the record books.
— Roger Federer
Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
— Cassandra Clare
Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapons.
— Malala Yousafzai
Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.
— James Jeffrey Roche
Time passes and everything gets bigger except us.
— Stephen King
Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)
— John Clute
Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means.
— Carla H. Krueger
There is a magic in some books That sucks a man into connections With the spirits hard to touch That join him to his kind.
— Roger Waters
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
— George Bernard Shaw
I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.
— Michael Gruber
God works in mysterious ways so if you let the world dictate the way God works, you will miss God working.
— Jonah Books
I am inspired by positive people who have overcome difficult obstacles, motivational/spiritual books, nature, and my kids.
— Andrea Navedo
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
Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.
— Rick Warren
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.
— Helen Oyeyemi
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
...books were better than travel.
— Pseudonymous Bosch
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
— Lev Grossman
Ooks look as if they contain knowledge, while e-readers look as if they contain information.
— Julian Barnes