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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
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
— Sylvia Plath
Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.
— Drea Damara
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
Books were enough to send him off on a high tangent, knowing he had a way to escape to other worlds.
— V.C. Andrews
There was a lot of purple on the covers. Purple sold scary books better than any other color, Mike had been told.
— Stephen King
I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and should be much higher.
— Nicholson Baker
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
— Neil Gaiman
I don't think any good book is based on factual experience. Bad books are about things the writer already knew before he wrote them. — Carlos Fuentes
A machine condemned to devour books and then throw them , in a changed form , on the dunghill of history .
— Karl Marx
Though far you are near, cheering you on.
— Esther Hershenhorn
Before there were books, we read each other.
— Lisa Cron
My philosophy has always been if I can learn just one thing from an article or book on writing, it's worth it.
— Writer's Digest Books
I learned that books are never finished, that it is possible for stories to go on writing themselves without an author.
— Paul Auster
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at least 100 books on that topic.
— Larry Winget
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life.
— John Milton
A book is just as magical to write as it is to read, it takes you on a journey that changes you in the end.
— Jen Golembiewski
Books open the doors that others have closed on you.
— Shannon L. Alder
I like books on tape, and will listen to just about anything.
— David Sedaris
Growing up, I lived in a house without art: no picture books on the shelves, no visits to museums, no posters on the bedroom wall.
— John Burnside
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
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.
— Lemony Snicket
There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.
— Greg Ginn
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
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
And we're going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I just think some books are instructions on why women are dirt or hardly exist at all except as accessories or are inherently evil and empty.
— Rebecca Solnit
I was raised on comic books, and I love science fiction.
— Mayim Bialik
These people that write books on how to succeed and how to think positively make millions because it's something that doesn't occur naturally.
— Rush Limbaugh
Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains.
— Rick Warren
She was sorry to have left her room. She looked at the pile of library books on her floor [...] and felt better.
— Tracey Lindberg
Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.
— Scott Westerfeld
Meredith immersed herself in the novels. For some reason, fiction hit on the meaning of life so much more concisely than real life itself did.
— Elin Hilderbrand
The life inside a book always felt welcoming to Knight. It pressed no demands on him, while the world of human interactions was so complex.
— Michael Finkel
I regained my soul through literature after those times I'd lost it to wild-eyed gypsy girls on the European streets.
— Roman Payne
Scent of old books a mystery; a secret port of the dreamers.
— China Cancio
I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side when I heard there were cookies.
— Donita K. Paul
I have lived a thousand lives and I've loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end of time. Because I read.
— George R R Martin
I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.
— Alberto Manguel
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
— Eugene O'Neill
Books are merely translations of our emotions into words that allow us to connect on an almost blood transfusion level.
— Ksenia Anske
Hell on earth: A crowded room with no books, no music and not a soul around that understands you.
— Brooke Hampton
I'm just the product of my grandmother telling me for years she would see my name on the spines of books.
— Hannah Brencher
Now and then, when I look round on my books, they seem to waver as if a wind rippled their solid mass, and another world were about to break through.
— George MacDonald
A male frigate bird blows up a wild red pouch on his neck. He can keep it puffed up for hours. It is his way of impressing the girls.
— Julie Murphy
An Authorpreneur focuses on establishing one's brand to the consumer using different avenues to promote their work.
— Geraldine Solon
I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.
— Madeleine Albright
In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them.
— Martin Buber
There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island. - WALT DISNEY
— Ellery Adams
I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.
— Andre Breton
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
— Stephan Jenkins
Some people get their books on the best-seller list and then they count the number of weeks, and I just never want to live that way.
— Lorrie Moore
I lay on the bed and lost myself in stories. I liked that. Books were safer than other people anyways.
— Neil Gaiman
I should rather have you than a heap of gold, even if it were very comfortable to sleep on.
— Naomi Novik
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
Laws against homosexual behavior should remain on the books.
— Orson Scott Card
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 am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
— Steve Toltz
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
— Tony Judt
Working 9 to 5 is structure. But tying lines together all hours of day is structure at its best performing magic.
— C.C. Wyatt
We also sold books, creating several best sellers and helping to put unknown authors on the map.
— Howard Schultz
'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
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
Count calories if you like, but go ahead and gorge yourself on books. What have you got to lose but a small mind?
— Robin R. Meyers
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
— Alan King
There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books.
— Aaron Carter
This must be a gift book. That is to say a book, which you wouldn't take on any other terms.
— Dorothy Parker
Yeah, right. Instead of watching TV, we'll practice our weird magical powers. Great. What's next? Zooming around on flying carpets?
— Malia Ann Haberman
The aging Adams delightedly describes being surrounded by books on so many different subjects that interested him as "baits on fishhooks".
— Paul C. Nagel
I ought to write funny books. Life is really too horribly funny, but unless one's an outsider looking on, it's all such a bore.
— Graham Greene
I picture my books as movies when I get stuck, and when I'm working on a new idea, the first thing I do is hit theaters to work out pacing and mood.
— Maggie Stiefvater
When I first started writing the books in the 1980s, all of the female detectives were flawed in some way because they were based on noir characters.
— Kerry Greenwood
In 1994, the average person spent $79 on books as compared to $56 on recorded music.
— Richard L. Brandt
I often say that we should only be judged on two things: if we're kind, and if we read books.
— Paige Shelton
I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha!
— Brian Jacques
We write to strengthen our soul and the spirit of other souls.
— Lailah Gifty Akita