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Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert

It was wrong, but sometimes you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelette. — Stephen King

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books. — P.B. Kerr

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography,
but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility. — Katherine Paterson

That's the thing with reality, he said, you can't repeat it to order, you can't correct it. Perhaps we should read more books. — Peter Stamm

My younger sister Debby had died of cancer, which started me writing - the sense of life being short. Cancer focuses your mind. — Meg Rosoff

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard. — Natsuki Takaya

A book is like a key that fits into the tumbler of the soul. The two parts have to match in order for each to unlock. Then - click - a world opens. — Brad Kessler

Certain books seem to be written, not that we might learn from them, but in order that we might see how much the author knows. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I'll give you anything. My boy, my soul, take them. Take everything. — Sylvain Reynard

In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for that might be our fault. — C.S. Lewis

I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one. — Walter Moers

I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good. — Kathryn Stockett

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy. — Johann Heinrich Lambert

There would be internet, and books, and music. He could think, and be, and hold the world at a distance in order to see it properly. — Warren Ellis

Sometimes you have to walk through the fire, in order to reach your calling. — Shannon L. Alder

Businesses make decisions based on what they are seeing in their order books. — Jacob Lew

In my work, I have never had any use for anything that I have known in advance. — Eduardo Chillida

Don't break one girl's heart because you're trying to heal yourself of another one — Tarryn Fisher

Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order. — George Orwell

People often ask if my books should be read in any particular order, but they're all standalone novels, so picking up any one of them would be fine. — Jennifer McMahon

Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained. — Patricia Cornwell

Don Vicente, a monk of the Convent of Pobla in Aragon, murdered several collectors in order to get their best books; — Harold Rabinowitz

At Fantasy's Bar & Grill we're serving up things behind closed doors that are hotter than anything you'll order from the menu! — Michelle Hughes

A man can own a woman, and a man can own a knife, but no man can own both, — George R R Martin

No, read in order to live. — Gustave Flaubert

Unless a convention of anarchists visited the library yesterday, most books ought to be in their rightful places. — Evelyn Skye

aposiopesis business was easy to get into. It meant that you — John Cody Fidler-Simpson

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned. — Giacomo Casanova

Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book. — Stephane Mallarme

The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy. — Ian McEwan

That once were urgent and necessary for an orderly world and now were buried away, gathering dust and of no use to anyone. — Patricia A. McKillip

Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books. — Douglas Lain

I've written whole books in order to avoid writing other books. — Sarah Manguso

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn — Robert Frost

One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death. — Carlos Fuentes