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Books make the best ersatz friendships. — Nenia Campbell

Yes, it's true that you can't learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything. — Jessica Zafra

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done. — Sarah Dessen

Quite a few books about decluttering are published in a year. — Marie Kondo

They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming. — Dejan Stojanovic

The largest two books I've ever read more than once are 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens and 'The Stand' by Stephen King, about 1,200 pages each. — Simon Toyne

To live in the world without becoming aware of the meaning of the world is like wandering about in a great library without touching the books. — Dan Brown

The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read. — Donald Barthelme

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller

I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics. — Scott McCloud

They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from the Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. — Cassandra Clare

As I got older, I really got into Tupac's poetry, his books and just learning about his life and what he was into. — Jhene Aiko

I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them.
— Carlos Fuentes

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books. — P.B. Kerr

Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy. — Joe Meno

I read a lot of nonfiction - especially books about the brain. — Ellen Pompeo

They are books that have been read and read intensely. They are knocked about and shopworn. I would be ashamed of a book whose spine was not broken. — Linda Grant

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue. — Zadie Smith

There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible. — Mark Rylance

I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic. — Larry Winget

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of. — Christina Westover

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why. — Dylan Thomas

I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything. — David Sedaris

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read. — Shannon L. Alder

Madam Pince, our librarian, tells me that it is 'pawed about, dribbled on, and generally maltreated' nearly everyday - a high compliment for any book. — J.K. Rowling

You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk one. — Harper Lee

I like facts, I like books, I like films... but you still know the few from everything about me. — Deyth Banger

Every writer dreams about the day they can step into their fiction and wander its hallways. — Shannon L. Alder

To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me, I think. — Pearl S. Buck

Every time I hear about somebody who wins a never-work-again sum in the lottery but keeps his or her day job I think, not a book person. — Amy Smith

'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do. — Colson Whitehead

Perhaps one of my favorite things about travelling is getting to mark and observe other readers. — Rachel Heffington

I think when you first start out, you're writing books that are about your immediate place. — Jami Attenberg

I have an obsession with books about kids with Asperger's syndrome. — Donald Glover

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do. — Morrissey

I love books. I really, really love them. There's something special about bringing people and books together — Margaret Truman

If a book about failures doesn't sell, is it a success? — Jerry Seinfeld

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it — Jean Anouilh

Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through. — George MacDonald

What's most interesting about some books is the question: How did this crap ever get published? — Ashleigh Brilliant

The thing about being a screenwriter, scriptwriter, scenarist, You get to have multiple personalities and not be charged. — Andrea L'Artiste

Libraries are about books. Books have no color. And they don't care who reads them. — Augusta Scattergood

First, you need to realize everything you thought you knew about yourself, about me, is a lie. — Angela Parkhurst

Blatant, intentional discrimination against women is far from being something merely to be read about in history books. — Cordelia Fine

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — G.K. Chesterton

It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus. — Erin Bow

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction. — Walter Mosley

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. — David Remnick

CUSTOMER (to her friend): What's this literary criticism section? Is it for books that complain about other books? — Jen Campbell

I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet. — Michael Dirda

My most successful books, the ones that I feel the strongest about, are the ones that started with a premise that for me was deeply emotional. — Tess Gerritsen

Epics are never written about libraries. They exist on whim; it depends on if the conquering army likes to read. — Patricia A. McKillip

One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me? — Alain De Botton

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

I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires. — Jamie Waylett

I wish I could think about nothing, but the books all the time. I have never had an alcoholic rampage because of thinking about books too much... — Books

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul — Paulo Coelho

There is something very intimate and personal about one's books. They reveal so much of one's private soul. — Dion Fortune

Conservatives don't want to read good, smart books. They mostly want to read Fox and talk radio hosts writing about presidents. — Alex Pareene

Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer. — Kate Morton

I don't think about who the audience is for my books. — J.K. Rowling

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do. — Caroline Leavitt

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection. — Deborah Eisenberg

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. — Fay Godwin

It's not easy to write a poem about a poem. — Dejan Stojanovic

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now
only that place where the books are kept. — John Steinbeck

Read a lot of books and try a lot of recipes," Jia said. "When you learn enough about the world, even a blade of grass can be a weapon. — Ken Liu

I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books. — Robert Hass

She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to. — Ruth Rendell

I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires. — Roddy Doyle

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness. — Chris Ware

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. — Barbara Park

The fun one can have writing books about books is limitless, to be honest. — Jasper Fforde

In the odd moment when I am not thinking about horses, I write books. — Meg Rosoff

In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don't have books written about them have it easier. — Jaroslav Kalfar

You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents. — A.S. Byatt

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 teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story. — Malorie Blackman

[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

There's a brotherhood of people who read and who care about books. — Neil Gaiman

It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature. — John Banville

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year. — Shane McCrae

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

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them. — M.J. Rose

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

I was about 11 or 12 when I began to pick up my mother's books. — Rabih Alameddine

I only write books about dead people. They can't sue. — Pierre Berton

They grew; they did not talk about growing. — Dejan Stojanovic

I'm the same way about the bookshop. You know, I walk around and I feel the whole world is in there, the most important stories of all time. — Caroline Kepnes

I like nonfiction books about people with wretched lives. — David Sedaris

I suppose Stanley fell in love with me during those talks about life and books, but he probably loved someone else, a person who wasn't me. — Siri Hustvedt

The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties. — Mark Millar

I must confess that although I am quite passionate about the books I create for children, I am not the best oral storyteller. In fact, I stink at it. — Tony DiTerlizzi

I don't think if you're serious about literature your library is filled with award-winning books. — Andrew Wylie

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private. — Patrick O'Brian

I write about characters that interest me. And I don't think of my books as being forms of entertainment. — Jhumpa Lahiri

Personally I don't like it when writers become excessively proscriptive about the way that people read their books. — China Mieville