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I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
— Lois Lowry
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
— Joyce Carol Oates
Perhaps that is the best way to say it: printed books are magical, and real bookshops keep that magic alive.
— Jen Campbell
Write it down and it will come alive.
— Efrat Israeli
Some books find us at just the right time in our lives and those books change our lives forever. I hope this is that kind of book for you.
— Matthew Kelly
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
— John Ruskin
The books are funny and sad, and that's what people respond to.
— Paula Danziger
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
— Gail Carson Levine
This was something that happened in bad horror movies, and books written by people from Maine.
— Chris Philbrook
As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.
— Carlo Collodi
...never fully appreciated her before," he told us. "She's strong, like one of these women detectives in books, but kind and compassionate--
— Jacqueline Girdner
She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.
— Donna Leon
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
I would rather spend money on something, that fulfills me for eternity. Rather, than something that fulfills me for only an hour or two.
— Mary Sage Nguyen
A book is a collected thoughts and lessons in one place, a quote is a lesson which is learnt.
— Deyth Banger
Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
— Carmela Dutra
Reincarnation is when I tell a girl I write spiritual books and she thinks I'm a monk. She has a medieval soul.
— Daniel Marques
And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
— Edmund Hillary
As consumers, we are faced with hundreds of choices - and when it comes to books, thousands of choices.
— M.J. Rose
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
— Vikram Seth
The wall of my heart is thin and the beat irregular but a new heart is being formed in me.
— Jonah Books
I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.
— Neil Gaiman
You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel.
— Khaled Hosseini
... but for now it's too great a pleasure to stay in my own cottage, with my own books, and do exactly what I want to do.
— Melinda Salisbury
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody's best friend.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
— James Weldon Johnson
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
— Roddy Doyle
I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.
— Mia Wasikowska
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
— Edward Gibbon
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
— Thomas Jefferson
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and time and energy limited.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
I have so many books on my shelves that I can now start a war with some country and have supplies for years to come throwing books at its citizens!
— Ibrahim Ibrahim
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
— H.L. Mencken
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
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
— Malorie Blackman
When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books.
— Stephen Baldwin
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.
— Helen Oyeyemi
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
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
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
— Lev Grossman
she had been moping around school, not wanting to do anything besides painting and reading books.
— Kim Richardson
I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply there is a book.
— Scarlett Thomas
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence.
— Philip Pullman
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
What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.
— Donna Brown
My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.
— Denene Millner
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
— Samuel Johnson
And books -- she swallows like dumplings.
— Sholem Aleichem
The Bible informs, reforms and transforms. Other books merely informs
— Ikechukwu Joseph
Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.
— Jackie French
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
— Steve Toltz
You come up and read books?" asked Gregor. "Read them, eat them, whatever mood strikes me,
— Suzanne Collins
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
— Salman Rushdie
We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map.
— Howard Schultz
I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life.
— Juliette Binoche
Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.
— Donald J. Bingle
