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We have all sorts of words that could describe us. But we get to choose which ones are most important. — Jennifer E. Smith

Collect books, even if you don't plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library. — John Waters

I might not be physically strong.
But I do believe that to survive, I need to be strong-willed.
Which is more important in life? — Michelle Horst

Books can do many things, but not everything. We have to live the important things, not read them. — Nina George

If we all learnt cat-speak, we would often find they are saying, "You stupid human, I am trying to tell you something important right now! — Leah Broadby

The things you don't know or understand are as important as your desire to know them. This is the relationship of man to mystery. — Carew Papritz

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. — Edmund White

I never knew book were important than anything even humans until i discovered that books are straight forward why humans are unstable. — Oladeji Jeremy

Still and all, I think a library is a library is a library, don't you? No matter how big or small. Books are important. — Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli

The most important thing is to go out and see the stars, not to see them in books. — Edouard Boubat

What's important? That which is dug out of books, or out of the guts? — Theodore Roethke

The counsellor who never reads a novel or never opens a book of poetry is neglecting an important resource for empathic development. — Dave Mearns

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know. — Desiderius Erasmus

Passion for books is the most important thing in being an editor/translator. Work with love. — Listiana Srisanti

The Bible is the most important part of your faith. — Elizabeth George

The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you. — W. Somerset Maugham

Books! Cleverness! There are more important things--friendship, bravery. — J.K. Rowling

So many of my books, I don't want to say they have messages, but they have important things to say. — Lois Lowry

If you ever go home with somebody and they don't have books in their house, don't sleep with them. I think that's very important. — John Waters

Books have always been really important to me; they're my saving grace. — Molly Ringwald

I've been tremendously moved by a bunch of odd books. Ross McDonald is very important to me. I love the Lew Archer books. — James Ellroy

I find books that have a moral and spiritual center, that speak to what is really important and lasting, hugely appealing. — Jeannette Walls

Writing for children is important to me because I want children to develop the same love of books I had as a child. — Darlene Foster

Books as objects are not what books are, it's not what's important about them — Jo Walton

I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Books that represent the last word on a topic are important. Books that represent one of the first words are even more important. — Jesper Roine

Every important journey I have undertaken has begun the same: with crushed sheets, a balled pillow, flung open books, and not a wink of sleep. — Josiah Bancroft

The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Me? Books and cleverness? There are more important things in life. Friendship, and bravery, and Harry, just be careful. — Hermoine Granger

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young. — Jhumpa Lahiri

When you buy a jacket, it's important the pockets are big enough for a paperback! — Daniel Pennac

Books join us together as a global reading community, but more important, a global human community striving to learn from the past. What — Ruta Sepetys

Attitude Is More Important Than Talent — Latif Mercado

From your point of view as a reader, therefore, the most important words are those that give you trouble. — Mortimer J. Adler

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors. — Tatiana De Rosnay

Books have always been an important part of my life. — Jasmine Guinness

Firelit rooms lined with books - these are the places in which important things happen. — Anthony Doerr

It is, of course, a trifle, but there is nothing so important as trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle

Plot is tremendously important to me: I can't stand books where nothing happens, and I can't imagine ever writing a novel without at least one murder. — Ned Beauman

Books are important. They help you sleep at night. — Laura Bush

People should learn the names of things. They're more important when you know what they're called -- harder to forget. - Constantine — Jamie Delano

It's important to read a book, but also to hold the book, to smell the book ... it's perfume, it's incense, it's the dust of Egypt ... — Ray Bradbury

I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books are for me, it must be said, the most important thing. — Diane Setterfield

[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important. — John Sutherland

It is equally important to learn from experience and from books. — Eraldo Banovac

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world. — Leonard Cohen

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

The most important events in every age never reach the history books. — C.S. Lewis

If my books can help children become readers, then I feel I have accomplished something important. — Roald Dahl

What is more important than reading books; is reading people's faces. — Anis Mansour

Stories are important, the monster said. They can be more important than anything. If they carry the truth. — Patrick Ness

A tried and true way to get your children interested in books and reading is to read to them when they are young. — Soraya Diase Coffelt

When I see films made from books, I make a huge effort not to remember the book. It's important to see the film as a film. — Kazuo Ishiguro

The point is, it didn't really matter what the book was about. It was what it meant that was important. — Markus Zusak

These are books that want to be read out loud. These are books kids share with each other, and I think that's important. — Brian P. Cleary

I want to do something important in my life, and I think that adding beauty to the world with books ... really is important. — Cynthia Rylant

Reading is important, because if you can read, you can learn anything about everything and everything about anything. — Tomie DePaola

If we were to understand how important it is to say something and say it well, maybe we wouldn't write a single word, but that would be tragic. — Dejan Stojanovic

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else. — Mary Crosby

...it was important to hit the ground running and not fall into the lifestyle traps of newly found free time. — Alex Adam

We have to teach empathy as we do literacy. — Bill Drayton

Writing is the neck muscle allowing us to see the important stuff in our periphery. — Rob Bignell, Editor

THE WEALTH OF NATIONS is one of the most important and influential books ever written. It — Adam Smith

Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you — Barack Obama

I'm not being disrespectful of the medium; it's just not as important as the work that I actually do [books]. — Alice Walker

What's important now is that I have fun doggone. — KayeC Jones

There are 3 or 4 important things in life: Books, Friends, Women ... and Messi — Antonio Lobo Antunes

Nah, books were more important than the Arum. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

Oh this? It's a 'bookworm.'
They live in books, and they love to eat important or valuable words. — CLAMP

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games. — Ang Lee

It's always been colossally important to me that my books should be well received in India. It's where I come from. — Salman Rushdie