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I am simply a 'book drunkard.' Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them. — L.M. Montgomery

Any book has behind it all the other books that have been written. — Anthony Burgess

My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them. — Sylvia Plath

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

I know all about you from your books,' she said. 'But in spite of that you're still a riddle to me.'
Have you come here to solve it?' I asked. — Maxim Biller

I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life. — Claire Tomalin

I'm not saying that you have to be a reader to save your soul in the modern world. I'm saying it helps. — Walter Mosely

Every night, I have to read a book, so that my mind will stop thinking about things that I stress about. — Britney Spears

I have these knives in my chest that can't become words. — Jenim Dibie

If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared. — Karl Pilkington

I have always believed that poems beg to be read aloud, even if the reader is in a world all her own. — J. Patrick Lewis

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available. — Marco Roth

We go to school to learn to work hard for money. I write books and create products that teach people how to have money work hard for them. — Robert Kiyosaki

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth. — Nick Hornby

They are books that have been read and read intensely. They are knocked about and shopworn. I would be ashamed of a book whose spine was not broken. — Linda Grant

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

I truly believe that if you have more friends than books, you have too many friends. Or not enough books. Probably both. — Zoe Marriott

Books open the doors that others have closed on you. — Shannon L. Alder

I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them. — George R R Martin

That was some branch. Did it have a vendetta against your t-shirt?"
"Guess so."
"I hope you showed it who is boss."
"Yeah, I peed on it. — Stacey Marie Brown

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini. — Louise Erdrich

I normally hate books that have anything to do with medicine, thanks to my own background in nursing - FYI, almost everybody gets it wrong. — Shiloh Walker

I have three storage units, and that's no lie. Three storage units. All books. — Junot Diaz

The good thing of TV movies/books... TV series... audiobooks is that you can choose the genre and you have plenty of choice. — Deyth Banger

I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard. — Cheryl Lynn

The reality is that people reach for a Bible when they're feeling lost. But if they hadn't shelved it, maybe they wouldn't have gotten lost. — Crystal Woods

When you educate a woman, you set her free. Had I not had books and education in Mississippi, I would have believed that's all there was. — Oprah Winfrey

There are very few well-adjusted people in my books. But I do think that's normal. Because everyone does have their issues and hang-ups. — Sophie Hannah

Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. — Novalis

Books smell and feel better. They have that wonderful thingness of turning the pages. — Neil Gaiman

I'm a sporadic reader. I have moments when I can't stop ... then I kind of forget that I can read. But then I go, 'Oh God, yeah, books!' — Rhys Ifans

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay. — Christopher Hitchens

I'm always nervous about going home, just as I am nervous about rereading books that have meant a lot to me. — Jeanette Winterson

Namir snorted. "What is it with you people and Vader?" he asked. "It can't be the helmet that scares people. Stormtroopers have helmets. — Ballantine Books

If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have. — Sarah Elwell

I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself. — Edward Abbey

This was better. I don't know if I could have gone at her that way if I wasn't pretending to be Daenerys in the Game of Thrones books, but I think so. — Stephen King

If books can transform, those have to be conscientious. — Sudhir Mittal

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write. — Asne Seierstad

I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman ... — Sara Coleridge

I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary. — Sara Sheridan

I have expressed my opinion through the written word through my books, that is all. — Oriana Fallaci

When someone recommends a book to you, you know two things; that it is a good book and you have a good friend. — Min Kim

Had I known that coffee could taste so good, I would have gotten drunk on it every day. — Rabih Alameddine

He would have enough money ... for a family that would fill his house with beautiful music and the silence of good books. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

Books have this function that help me to understand the work I've done, to wrap it up. Once it's done, fortunately, it doesn't mean there's closure. — Wolfgang Tillmans

Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do what I share with them to do. — Sandra Lee

Yes, we'll have to put a stop to this bookworming. No future in that. — Molly Keane

It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy. — Kate Atkinson

Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

The books that have helped me most are the ones I reacted to, not just read — Rick Warren

I have read a number of books, starting with novels, that I particularly liked. — Enrique Pena Nieto

I do not use my intellect to write my stories and books; I have a gut reaction to the things that my subconscious gives me. — Ray Bradbury

I think a lot of people have an idea of virtual reality from science fiction, books and movies that have been out over the last couple of decades. — Brendan Iribe

Brazil and Germany are very similar, but in Brazil we have a much longer career. There are much more books that have been published just there. — Gabriel Ba

All my life I have been reading romance novels. Those stupid books ruined me. I've always wanted that fire that every book I ever read talks about. — Aurora Rose Reynolds

Neither my mom nor my dad ever bought me any comic books. Certainly not for Christmas. I suspect that doing so would have violated the Parents' Code. — Michael Dirda

When books are opened, we discover that we have wings — Helen Hayes

I never set out to write books for children. I don't have a feeling that I'm gonna save children or my life is devoted. — Maurice Sendak

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading. — Daniel Pennac

In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite high. — John Banville

I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed. — L. Ron Hubbard

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much. — Bent Larsen

Since I was eight years old. I didn't have a TV, so comic books were definitely my television, my soap operas, and all that. — Method Man

We really have no definition of mother in our law books. Mother was believed to have been so basic that no definition was deemed necessary. — Marianne O. Battani

There's not a day that I don't work on vocals, have vocal coaches, go to acting classes, read books. — Aaron Carter

I know you may feel so far that circumstances have directed your path, but right now I want you to know that you do have a choice. — Larry Itejere

I like zombies; I like them fine. But I don't have a long list of zombie movies or books that are among my favorite things in the world. — Steve Hockensmith

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them. — Oswald Chambers

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare. — Helen Keller

He seems to read nothing but my books, and says his one desire is to 'follow in my footsteps'! But I have told him that they lead to terrible places. — Oscar Wilde

Picture books are the distillation of an idea, and you have to use just the right words. I love that, and I try to use a lot of action verbs. — Denise Fleming

Perdu and Cuneo gaped at creatures that seemed to have sprung from Middle Earth or Winterfell. Such is the power of books. — Nina George

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now
only that place where the books are kept. — John Steinbeck

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

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

You see, some things I can teach you. Some you learn from books. But there are things that, well, you have to see and feel. — Khaled Hosseini

The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness. — Chris Ware

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

I believe that books, once they are written, have no need of their authors. — Elena Ferrante

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library. — Jorge Luis Borges

The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists. — Val McDermid

Read. Read. Read. Read. Read great books. Read poetry, history, biography. Read the novels that have stood the test of time. And read closely. — David McCullough

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there. — Myrtle Reed

I believe that it is my job not only to write books but to have them published. A book is like a child. You have to defend the life of a child. — George Konrad

Good books put a finger on emotions that are deeply our own - but that we could never have described on our own. — Alain De Botton

He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. — Paulo Coelho

Have books 'happened' to you? Unless your answer to that question is 'yes,' I'm unsure how to talk to you — Haruki Murakami

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've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them. — Whitley Strieber

I've always thought that books have some kind of healing power and that they can, if nothing else, provide a distraction. — Katarina Bivald

This is of unspeakable importance. Please send any books on the structure of the human heart that I have not read — J.D. Salinger

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience. — Sylvia Day

Without a doubt,
I must read,
all the books
I've read about.
See the artworks
hung on hooks,
that I have only,
seen in books. — Lang Leav

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. — Madeleine L'Engle

I like that library books have secret lives. All those hands that have held them. All those eyes that have read them. — Neela Vaswani

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life. — Sandra Cisneros

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure. — Bernard Baruch

It's true that when you read YA you rarely have to read about middle-aged men having affairs. Personally I consider that a plus. — Erin Bow

I wrote three books before I got one published. Most writers do. Have faith, and know that with each work you are getting better. — Jojo Moyes