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I think I've written 40 books, and none of them have been heavy on action. I'm an introspective person.
— Lois Lowry
I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
— Robin Zander
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
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
I have lots of favourites. That's the trouble with books. You can never choose your favorite. It changes depending on your mood.
— Veronica Henry
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
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
— John Ruskin
The worth of a book is infinite.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.
— Anita Valle
Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.
— Susan Sontag
...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
She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.
— Donna Leon
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
— Winston S. Churchill
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
— Danny Tyran
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Where there are books, there will always be haters of books alongside the lovers of them.
— John Connolly
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.
— Desmond Tutu
She traced a finger over a splotch of fuchsia silk on her dress. All those books, with no one to read them.
— Sarah J. Maas
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
Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
— Carmela Dutra
Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.
— George R R Martin
Melancholy isn't a sign of the book's end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading's muse.
— Andrew Piper
Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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
And so for a couple of years my life was divided between my music and my school books.
— James Weldon Johnson
Most of us do things for reasons that are more purely personal. For love, or for hate.
— Cassandra Clare
On the whole, I don't like reading long books. I'm not a fan of 'Ulysses.' And I haven't quite finished 'War and Peace.'
— Vikram Seth
Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
— Karl Lagerfeld
But the book! The siren song of the book!
— Ellen Douglas
To say nothing means to give one's consent.
— Asne Seierstad
I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again.
— Mia Wasikowska
Books are the curse of the human race.
— Benjamin Disraeli
He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.
— Dejan Stojanovic
There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
— H.L. Mencken
Books are the salt of life; without them, there is no flavor.
— Cheryl Koevoet
The function of a great library is to store obscure books.
— Nicholson Baker
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
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
Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes.
— Janet Evanovich
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
Books had been her means of escape; now they would be her refuge.
— Trenton Lee Stewart
'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
— Malorie Blackman
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
Bookshop and libraries are great celestial places to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I still like paper books. Like, book is a flammable object. After you read it, you could use it to get warm. Or it could become a pile of napkins.
— Demetri Martin
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
— Lev Grossman
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
— Jackie Kennedy
I like Rhine wine, blue grapes, good cheese, endive and lots of books, etc., etc., etc., as much as I like supreme fiction.
— Wallace Stevens
Reading is not just an escape. It is access to a better way of life.
— Karin Slaughter
I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.
— R.L. Stine
With a book he was regardless of time.
— Jane Austen
We don't need lists of rights and wrongs, tables of do's and don'ts: we need books, time, and silence.
— Philip Pullman
Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)
— John Clute
They handed over spider plants in terra-cotta, six-packs, books, bottles of wine. Yuppies in embryo, miming their parents' manners.
— Lauren Groff
My husband, Nick Chiles and I wrote a number of relationship books together, and what we found was that women were thirsty to hear directly from men.
— Denene Millner
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
Elend: I kind of lost track of time ...
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved. — Brandon Sanderson
Breeze: For two hours?
Elend: There were books involved. — Brandon Sanderson
Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.
— Jackie French
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
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
My deep religiosity [ ... ] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
— Albert Einstein
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life
— Robin S. Sharma
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