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Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.
— John F. Kennedy
When it comes to books and friends, it is best to have only a few but all good ones.
— Guillaume Musso
There is pleasure from learning the simple truth, and there is a pleasure from learning that the truth is not simple.
— Wayne C. Booth
I'll be left writing picture books and fairy tales.
— Carol Ann Duffy
Like most-maybe all- writers, I learned to write by writing and, by example, by reading books.
— Francine Prose
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
Seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books.
— John Milton
My favorite books to give or get are short story collections. And always paperbacks because they are easy to carry as you travel.
— Chuck Palahniuk
I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's.
— Donalyn Miller
Reading literature and engaging in writing breaks through the mental rigidity that experience and repetition breeds.
— Kilroy J. Oldster
Reviews are for readers, not writers. If I get a bad one, I shrug it off. If I get a good one, I don't believe it
— William Meikle
Before long, I had lost my youth and my patience for indulging others. Books were everything in life; books were better than wine.
— Matthew Pearl
Americans like fat books and thin women.
— Russell Baker
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
Many of the greatest books are like a forest. The best way to get to know them is to wander right into the middle and get lost.
— Anthony Esolen
We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them.
— Robert Kiyosaki
This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.
— Deyth Banger
As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.
— Carlo Collodi
I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.
— David Sedaris
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page.
— Jane Hamilton
Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.
— Helene Hanff
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot.
— John Searles
Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
— Carmela Dutra
Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
— Walter Benjamin
And I have written three books on the soul, Proving absurd all written hitherto, And putting us to ignorance again.
— Robert Browning
The hell in your soul will always find heaven in mine.
— Jenim Dibie
I kiss her. I kiss her and kiss her. I try not to bite her lip. She tastes like vodkahoney.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
— Dominique Swain
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.
— Jeanette Winterson
Before parting that night we agreed that the objects of life were to produce good people and good books.
— Virginia Woolf
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I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted.
— Mary Ann Shaffer
Hell on earth: A crowded room with no books, no music and not a soul around that understands you.
— Brooke Hampton
I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.
— Tom T. Hall
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
Every reader has found charms by which to secure possession of a page that, by magic, becomes as if never read before, fresh and immaculate.
— Alberto Manguel
Love is a book and a light to read it by.
— Peter Hubbard
But now books and men had gone their separate ways. Who has the patience for a book? Only a book.
— John M. Keller
Books, games, jigsaws, as well as the soaring fells and sparkling lakes that would revive their spirits beyond all imagining.
— Rebecca Tope
A book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
— Robert A. Heinlein
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
I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies.
— Charles Soule
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
— Annie Dillard
I know nothing in the world that has as much power as a word. Sometimes I write one, and I look at it, until it begins to shine.
— Emily Dickinson
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
— Tom Spanbauer
Books and characters in books, pictures and elements in pictures - they all have families and ancestors, just like people.
— Margaret Atwood
I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly exist at all except as accessories or are inherently evil and empty.
— Rebecca Solnit
Always dream big and dare to believe!
— Melinda Rabin
Drop everithing and read.
— Emma Roberts
He looked at the books, and she wanted to say, 'Stop that,' as though he were reading her diary.
— Elizabeth Strout
A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages.
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.
— Lorrie Moore
Through books Cathy and I have lived a zillion lives ... our vicarious wayto feel alive. — V.C. Andrews
The success of many books is due to the affinity between the mediocrity of the author's ideas and those of the public.
— Nicolas Chamfort
Books are those faithful mirrors that reflect to our mind the minds of sages and heroes.
— Edward Gibbon
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
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
— Thomas Jefferson
The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion.
— Faith Hunter
The Bible informs, reforms and transforms. Other books merely informs
— Ikechukwu Joseph
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 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 am inspired by positive people who have overcome difficult obstacles, motivational/spiritual books, nature, and my kids.
— Andrea Navedo
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
— Lev Grossman
Time passes and everything gets bigger except us.
— Stephen King
I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.
— Leonard Cohen
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
— Eugene O'Neill
Books: a beautifully browsable invention that needs no electricity and exists in a readable form no matter what happens.
— Nicholson Baker
And that's why any of my picture books exist: They all seem to be built backwards from a simple, emotionally optimistic story beat.
— Berkeley Breathed
I grew up kissing books and bread,
— Salman Rushdie
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
Authors are known to have fiendishly clever minds, and the authors of children's books are more fiendishly clever than most. What
— Alan Bradley
Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love?
— Salman Rushdie
Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small mind?
— Robin R. Meyers
Books and spiritual blessings are the greatest soul food
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
— Maggie Stiefvater
I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
— Malorie Blackman
