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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
They blossomed, they did not talk about blossoming.
— Dejan Stojanovic
The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.
— Donald Barthelme
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
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
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
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
'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
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
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
I like the 'Cirque du Freak' books - 'Tunnel of Blood' by Darren Shan. They're set in England. It's about vampires.
— Jamie Waylett
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
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 nowonly that place where the books are kept. — John Steinbeck
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
— Robert Hass
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
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
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
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[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
It's great people still care about books, and it's great you can still fashion a life from literature.
— John Banville
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
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
