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Hobbies are for people who don't read books, — Lissa Evans

Dozens of books. I wonder if she's read them all, or if she just needs them for comfort. Maybe she uses them as an escape from her real life. — Colleen Hoover

Books are nothing but repositories for those lies the author wants his reader to believe. — Glen Cook

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness. — Kate DiCamillo

Contrary to popular belief, editors and agents are gagging for good books. — Meg Rosoff

My family put a lot of emphasis on homework, so there weren't too many comic books or video games for me, when I was growing up. — Wentworth Miller

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

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things. — Mitch Albom

Some people read books for fun. — Richelle Mead

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

I do believe there will always be a place for beautiful cookbooks that are real books. — Daniel Humm

Readers are paramount. I live to write books for them. — Jeffery Deaver

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author. — Paul Auster

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long. — Matthew Pearl

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books. — Alan Shepard

It has become unecesssary for the police to ban books: their price alone bans them. — Eduardo Galeano

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston S. Churchill

Well, now that we've knocked over one another's books, isn't the next step for our hands to accidentally touch while we're picking them up? — Lauren Kate

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

My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids. — Berkeley Breathed

Ruth was a novelist, and novelists, Oliver asserted, should have cats and books. — Ruth Ozeki

The reality is that people reach for a Bible when they're feeling lost. But if they hadn't shelved it, maybe they wouldn't have gotten lost. — Crystal Woods

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

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

Too many books are full of recipes that aren't doable at home. They are purely aspirational. They are quite frightening, even for me. — Yotam Ottolenghi

For books, timing is everything. The moment you first encounter a particular book is the right time to read it. — Marie Kondo

For books are as meats and viands are; some of good, some of evil sub-stance. — John Milton

I thought you were adorable. So full of love for books, head bursting with knowledge. It was quite endearing, really. — Julie Ann Walker

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year! — Colum McCann

For some of us, good books and beautiful writing are our ultimate solace, even more comforting than exquisite food. — Anne Lamott

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

You got to be there for it to happen! — January Bain

It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them. — Roddy Doyle

I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading. — Malorie Blackman

I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered. — Kaaron Warren

I'd always had a guilty preference for fiction. Since I seemed now to be living fiction, this proved to have been an entirely reasonable choice. — Robin McKinley

For if we're destroyed, the knowledge is dead ... We're nothing more than dust jackets for books ... so many pages to a person ... — Ray Bradbury

[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

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

Reading good books ruins you for enjoying bad books. — Mary Ann Shaffer

You know, I don't only play for the record books. — Roger Federer

A bestseller is a book written by a rich person of Indian roots staying in Europe for more than a decade.. — Himmilicious

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books. — Markus Zusak

I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live. — Yeonmi Park

For someone who made such an enormous contribution to American literature, Mark Twain has been the subject of many books but few major biographies. — Michael Patrick Hearn

If people buy my books for vanity, I consider it a tax on idiocy. — Umberto Eco

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books. — Alan King

I could spend the rest of my life writing and drawing books for kids and be a very happy man. — Daniel Sean Kaye

Books were a healthy drug. They could sweep me away from storms, make me forget bruises, and soothe any emotional ache, if only for a moment. — Cara Dee

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at. — Janice Dickinson

That was a kiss for the record books. — Jana Oliver

Don't ever trust anyone who's writing a book. They make up lies for a living. — Rosemary Clement-Moore

Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings. — Lev Grossman

I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy books. — Lev Grossman

Everything you read, becomes a part of your life. — Aman Jassal

Read two old books for every new one. — J.I. Packer

For are we not, all of us, wand'rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas? — Joan W. Blos

Books, bringing people together.' That would make a good slogan for the library. — Kasie West

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. — Ray Bradbury

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little. — Sol LeWitt

I don't think about who the audience is for my books. — J.K. Rowling

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it. — Sophie Divry

I don,t just want success for my self ,I want my success to benefit others .
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No person can ever be called friendless for he has the company of books. — I.R. Shankar

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

A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents. — Allison Hoover Bartlett

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

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this. — E. Nesbit

While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration. — Charles Stross

And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books. — James Weldon Johnson

She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of useful gifts. — Pat Conroy

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives. — Robert Frost

Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate. — Cassandra Clare

My fondness for good books was my salvation. — S. Tsow

Elend: I kind of lost track of time ...
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved. — Brandon Sanderson

A book consist of thoughts that for a moment don't mind holding hands. — Garry Fitchett

... 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

We live vicariously through stories, because our own lives provide so few opportunities for high-stakes adventure and noble sacrifice. — Sarah Cross

Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book. — Charles Lamb

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books, — Eddy Cue

Do not read good books-life is too short for that-read only the best. — Ernest Dimnet

I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha! — Brian Jacques

A book is indeed dead until a reader brings it into life by reading it. — Aman Jassal

Books are a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age. — Jeremy Collier

A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines. — Bill Walsh

Books are expensive. So are nice houses with gardens. Has it occurred to you that someone has to pay for your peaceful life? — Lisa Kleypas

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive. — Iyanla Vanzant

Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity. — Donald J. Bingle

I read serious books, but every now and then, I read just for fun. — Mitt Romney

I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little — Voltaire

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel

We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal. — Sam Harris

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation. — Edward M. Lerner

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. — Anatole France

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

I've been out on the book tour going through Pittsburgh, St Louis and Cleveland, Dayton and Orlando, Raleigh-Durham. I sign many books for people. — Jamie Farr

I always find that after reading books written by Jane Austen that I speak much more properly, at least for a while. — Becky Watson

I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range. — Garth Nix