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I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
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
I grew up in a middle-class house without books, without art. No one around me wrote poetry or even read it.
— Edward Hirsch
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
He was distressed to learn that the Pottery Barn Kids gift registry did not extend to children's books in Italian or Yiddish.
— Sylvain Reynard
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
— John Ruskin
In those days, there was no money to buy books.
— Ernest Hemingway,
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred.
— Franz Kafka
Sex scenes in books are always like first person, from this male perspective and just about how awesome he is. It feels like such a fantasy.
— Joe Meno
Sometimes life is like that, you know. It smacks
us when we're down. The brave get back up. At least, they do in the
books. — Shannon Lee Alexander
us when we're down. The brave get back up. At least, they do in the
books. — Shannon Lee Alexander
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect.
— Garth Greenwell
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
This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books.
— Deyth Banger
Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real.
— J.K. Rowling
All the creativity books in the world aren't going to help you if you're unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously bad ideas.
— Seth Godin
...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
I think the Harry books are actually very moral, but some people just object to witchcraft being mentioned in a children's book.
— J.K. Rowling
I'm already in the (record) books three or four times.
— Rickey Henderson
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Wisdom is in books, ... quote by me Halina Lagarde . Dan Brown is an inspiration to a book I am writing.
— Dan Brown
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.
— Desmond Tutu
A book is a collected thoughts and lessons in one place, a quote is a lesson which is learnt.
— Deyth Banger
Skilled labor teaches something not to be found in books or in colleges.
— Laura Matilda Towne
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
We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
— Tamora Pierce
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
There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.
— Anthony Trollope
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
Gentlemen use books as Gentlewomen handle their flowers, who in the morning stick them in their heads, and at night strawe them at their heeles.
— John Lyly
The aroma of tea mixed with the scent of old books, leather chairs, and wool from the carpet in a soothing fusion.
— Faith Hunter
She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to.
— Ruth Rendell
I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.
— Neil Gaiman
A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book.
— John A. Buehrens
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
Blustery cold days should be spend propped up in bed with a mug of hot chocolate and a pile of comic books.
— Bill Watterson
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.
— Jane Austen
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 a guide in youth, and an entertainment for age.
— Jeremy Collier
I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic.
— Virginia Madsen
A great book increases my heartbeat as if I'm prey, melts my insides in anticipation of a first kiss, immerses me in its depths.
— Carmen DeSousa
The wall of my heart is thin and the beat irregular but a new heart is being formed in me.
— Jonah Books
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
— Zadie Smith
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
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
— Samuel Davies
I got interested in the question of literacy because writers are always moaning about why more people don't read books.
— Robert Hass
Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like this.
— Carol Plum-Ucci
There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books
— Henry Miller
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
Good fiction often gives us characters in extremity, which ironically gives us a clearer mirror in which to see ourselves.
— Sarah Van Arsdale
Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.
— Julie Gregory
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
In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don't have books written about them have it easier.
— Jaroslav Kalfar
I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future.
— Alan Moore
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
— Tony Judt
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
— Virginia Woolf
However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can't quite reach.
— Peter Turchi
If greatness was easy to attain, everyone's name would be in history books.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.
— Helen Oyeyemi
There is a magic in some books That sucks a man into connections With the spirits hard to touch That join him to his kind.
— Roger Waters
There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.
— Cassandra Clare
As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
— Lauren Willig
God works in mysterious ways so if you let the world dictate the way God works, you will miss God working.
— Jonah Books
Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.
— Rick Warren
Nobody sells books like J.K. Rowling. We have a rule in publishing: Never compare anything to 'Harry Potter' because it's like lightning in a bottle.
— Cassandra Clare
This is a little secret that all writers share: We have two lives; the one we live on Earth and the one we live in our books.
— Chrys Fey
Whenever books are burned, men also in the end are burned.
— Heinrich Heine
While writing a novel I almost completely stop reading books in the same sub-genre for the duration.
— Charles Stross
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 lose ourselfs in books, we find ourself's there to
— Unkown Author
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.
— Walter Benjamin
All my friends are in my books.
— B. Cameron Lee
Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
— Kristan Higgins
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping malls.
— Bill Bryson
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
They handed over spider plants in terra-cotta, six-packs, books, bottles of wine. Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners.
— Lauren Groff
Once you fight the demons that live in your heart, the ones that live outside will never knock you door.
— Birdy Fogh
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
— Samuel Johnson
The only book in our home was the Bible. My parents forbade books. They thought I needed help because I wanted to be a writer!
— Ken Bruen