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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
— Salman Rushdie
Why are you doing this?" One of his hands caressed the books. "Because books are made to be read," I told him. "And you like to read. — Katherine Allred
Books are like bacon for the mind.
— Thomas F. Shubnell
Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Houses are like books: so many of them around you, yet you only look at a few and visit or reside in fewer still.
— Milorad Pavic
All of Dwayne's books are like a game of Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, except the bacon is actually bacon on a Happy Clown Burger sandwich.
— Christina McMullen
Books are like rivers, meandering this way and that, but taking us on a steady, flowing course to somewhere different.
— Carla H. Krueger
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency.
— Alan W. Watts
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films.
— Terry Pratchett
Anthologists are lazy fellows who like to spend a quiet evening at home raiding good books.
— Dorothy Parker
You are like me, you have more books than you have friends, no matter what Facebook tells you about your social network.
— Jason Merkoski
Books are boring," James said as he wrote."They line the walls like a thousand leather doorways to be opened into worlds unknown," I offered. — Laura Whitcomb
Books, like men their authors, have no more than one way of coming into the world, but there are ten thousand to go out of it, and return no more.
— Jonathan Swift
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
I think one thing I've learned, as dorky and obvious as this sounds: People who like cool books are usually really cool people.
— Kevin Sampsell
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
— Daphne Du Maurier
Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.
— Wilhelm Von Humboldt
Books are like music. Everyone has their own taste and it's not always for everyone.
— Michael Benavidez
Boys think girls are like books. If the cover doesn't catch their eye, they won't bother to read what's inside.
— Ella Frank
As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
— Paolo Bacigalupi
I like books that are funny, but that aren't trying to be funny. I like situational humor.
— Shiloh Fernandez
I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.
— Garry Kasparov
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation.
— Charice Pempengco
Nothing decorates a home like books. There they are, waiting to decorate the mind, too!
— Gladys Taber
Books are like eggs. Somethings you have to crack them open to get anything out.
— Clifton L. Taulbert
Books and movies are like apples and oranges. They both are fruit, but taste completely different.
— Stephen King
People are like books, unknown until they are opened.
— Richard Paul Evans
Books are all the dreams we would most like to have and like dreams they have the power to change consciousness.
— Victor Nell
All of my chupacabra books are like novelizations of movies that haven't been made yet.
— Raegan Butcher
People that are lazy don't get anything accomplished. It's People like me that are reliable.
— Richard W. Todd
Imaginary friends are like books. We're created, we're enjoyed, we're dog-eared and creased, and then we're tucked away until we're needed again.
— Katherine Applegate
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through.
— Jill Lepore
Books are alive and, just like people, sometimes are welcome and sometimes shown the door and asked to come back later.
— Christopher Herz
I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world.
— Steve Hockensmith
As Borges has taught us, all the books in the library are contemporary. Great poems are like granaries: they are always ready to enlarge their store.
— William H Gass
Writing is not 'lonely work' but "alone work'; authors are known to be reclusive and like spending time with themselves.
— Brie Edison
Good books, like good food, are meant to be savored and digested slowly overtime - Konnrad
— Konnrad
My colleagues and I feel that independents like ElfQuest are nothing but sheep in wolves' clothing.- S. Lee
— Robert Asprin
One day, when I own a house, I'll keep a library full of books. Books are different from other possessions-they're more like friends.
— Blake Mycoskie
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels or indie films, stuff like that.
— Thomas Lennon
Books are like horcruxeswithout all the evil
because a piece of the author goes into each one. — Ella J. Fraser
Closed books are like closed eyes - you must open them to see anything.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Books are like a disease. Once you've got it, it's incurrable and lifelong
— Janice Young Brooks
Books are like bound dreams waiting to be released
— Jocelyn Murray
I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires.
— Roddy Doyle
I was never a fan of anything, and yet some people are fans of my books. That's a bit odd. But I like meeting them.
— Daniel Handler
Books are like our children. They are often conceived by inspiration, but are born only by labor.
— R.G. Yoho
Authors like cats because they are such quiet, lovable, wise creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons.
— Robertson Davies
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.
— Mark Twain
Books are like flypaper, memories cling to the printed pages better than anything else.
— Cornelia Funke
Life is like a library owned by the author. In it are a few books which he wrote himself, but most of them were written for him.
— Harry Emerson Fosdick
Hearts are like Books. You cannot understand one by flipping the pages or by reading the last chapter
— Alok Jagawat
Sometimes music, movies and books are the only things that let us feel like someone else feels like we do.
— Marilyn Manson
Unread books are like unopened doors.
— Thomas F. Shubnell
Books are like tweets, except longer.
— John Green
The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.
— Stewart Stafford
There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
— Ray Bradbury
Holy crap, you are like a dog with a bone," I commented to Ryan."Or just one with a boner. — Stacey Marie Brown
I like home. It's warm and there are books.
— Ilona Andrews
My shows and books are an instant mood adjuster. They're my drugs of choice. And the fictional characters I love are like my friends.
— Susane Colasanti
and all of the books are behind metal grates, protected like the precious objects they are.
— Jenny Han
I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.
— Ray Bradbury
Old books are like Old friends
— George R R Martin
My men are my references. They're waiting outside for the books. They're dangerous.""Men like that always are. — Ray Bradbury
Charter boats are like books with no covers.
— Tania Aebi
Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
— Craig Thompson
Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil.
— Carl Sagan
friends are like books you use them when you need them but u will always remember them
— Yasmine Gooneratne
When people don't have free access to books, then communities are like radios without batteries.
— Anne Lamott
In the books, I meet characters which I really like and I think that they are like me... but so far I haven't met them in real life!
— Deyth Banger
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
— Karin Slaughter
It's our job - as parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles - to find books our kids are going to like.
— James Patterson
For what use are books to anyone whose days are like a rook's nest with every twig a duty.
— Mervyn Peake
A library bears similar qualities to a hospital. Librarians are like doctors, books the prescriptions.
— Trudy Wallis
I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.
— Emma Thompson
I am never really surprised at the way my books take shape. They are just not as perfect as I'd like them to be.
— Chris Van Allsburg
Books are like a gateway to real life.
— Jessica Sorensen
In the room ... they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Books of value are just like people of value-they try only to elevate others, to help them to rise and to grow.
— Victor J. Banis
Books are like my one and only joy.
— John Lydon
