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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

You will not publish 100% of the books you don't write. — M. Kirin

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 do like books on anatomy. I have to say I'm an amateur physician, I guess. — Tom Waits

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

Help your child discover a new world, where magic can live on every page, BOOKS! — Steve Altier

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

The truly wide taste in reading is that which enables a man to find something for his needs on the sixpenny tray outside any secondhand bookshop. — C.S. Lewis

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

With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book. — P.C. Cast

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

I've actually not read any books on time management. — Elon Musk

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

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

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

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream. — John Cheever

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

I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful. — Barbara Park

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images. — Fay Godwin

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

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim. — Erik Larson

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'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism. — Liam Neeson

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've raised three kids. I'm a lawyer. I've written books on the Constitution. — Caroline Kennedy

If I am on a journey where I only have time to read one-and-a-half books, I never know which one-and-a-half I'll feel like reading. So I bring eight. — Tom Stoppard

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

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

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

If I were planning to be stranded on a desert island, I wouldn't take Freud's books with me, because I've already read them all. — Anne Roiphe

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

A proper distribution of weight allows equality on each support. — Jonah Books

Sadly, I don't think books ever sell based on your name alone - the minute we make an assumption like that is the minute it all goes horribly wrong! — Jane Green

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

If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing. — Jim Rohn

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

A good book is hard to read, on account of how often it makes you stop and think. — Chris Brady

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

On getting lost in a book.
Set adrift
A life unknown
Connections form
Love is sewn — Patty Wiseman

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

Do not judge a man by the books on his shelf that he has read but by the books on his shelf that he does not reread. — Anonymous

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