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Books allow readers to determine what they wish. People often aren't quite as forgiving if you don't read or see exactly what they wish you to. — Anne Mallory

I like writing books. I really love words. I love to read. — Kerry Greenwood

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world. — Deborah Moggach

The thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read. — Donald Barthelme

Sleep is highly overrated, Marmee; especially when there are books to be read. I shall sleep when I am dead and have enough of it. — H.L. Stephens

Why don't you write books people can read?(to her husband James) — Nora Barnacle

If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it. — Toni Morrison

READ!READ!READ! Till there are no books left in the world to read! — Erin Hunter

The cartoon me writes the books cartoon people read in the cartoon world, because they need things to read there too. — Neil Gaiman

I wanted to possess all the books I had already read, as well as all those I had not - every book in the whole wide world, in other words. — Andy Miller

If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I need to see the original paintings just as little as I have to read the original manuscripts of books. — Rene Magritte

In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed. — Gail Carson Levine

I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else? — Elayne Boosler

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 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

This year my goal will be to learn new vocabulary in English and to read as much as possible books. — Deyth Banger

The more I know about God, I am convinced He likes to read books and authors are His librarians. Every soul is a story waiting to be read. — Shannon L. Alder

Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow! — Gabrielle Dubois

I don't go to the beach. There is no value in going to the beach. If I did go I would probably read economics books. — Esther Duflo

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. — Winston S. Churchill

I find that there are two kinds of books; the ones that make you want to read more and those that make you want to write more. — Harmann Pitts

All I needed to know, all true knowledge, the only really essential knowledge, was to be found in the books I read and the music I listened to — Karl Ove Knausgard

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

If you read any of my books, they tend to have a strong historical perspective. — Eric Kandel

I often feel sorry for people who don't read good books; they are missing a chance to lead an extra life. — Scott Corbett

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,

The teacher has assigned us a few chapters at a time, but I do not like to read books like — Stephen Chbosky

Considering yourself a serious reader doesn't mean you can't read light books. Loving to read means you sometimes like to turn your head off. — Lauren Leto

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world. — Leonard Cohen

I don't like to read books. They muss up my mind. — Henry Ford

I inhaled books like other people breathe oxygen. I didn't just read for knowledge or pleasure, I read to live. — Yeonmi Park

I try to write the kind of books I like to read. — Isabel Allende

Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. What people call intelligence just boils down to curiosity. — Aaron Swartz

If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun. — Eoin Colfer

In reading you must pursue to become a creator. — Aman Jassal

With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it — Jean Anouilh

I just want to read and ignore all my adult problems. — Unknown

She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live. — Annie Dillard

Life isn't really short. There are just too many good books to read in one lifetime. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I keep three kinds of books: those I want to read, those I want to reread, and those I want to reopen just to confirm how bad they are. — Sarah Manguso

For all the books in his possession, he still failed to read the stories written plain as day in the faces of the people around him. — Emma Donoghue

You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read. — Charles Jones

In adolescence students are suddenly turned loose on books worth reading, but generally don't know how to read them. — Martin Buber

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read. — Ashleigh Brilliant

The truth of the matter was no boy I knew lived up to the fantasy I'd created from the many books I'd read, and I wasn't going to settle. — Natasha Boyd

I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read — Thomas Babington Macaulay

The great authors were great readers, and one way to understand them is to read the books they read. — Mortimer J. Adler

With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I do. — Morrissey

WILL'S RULES FOR LIVING #13: READ BOOKS TO GET SMARTER. READ PEOPLE TO BECOME WISER. — Mark Frost

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together. — Laurence Housman

I wish I had more time to read. I do love books. — Carnie Wilson

People tend to read books about a guy who goes back in time or a guy who is living under a pier. — Andy Andrews

No one was born a reader; we learn to build the habit of reading. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

Some books are serials, not to be mistaken for anything else. 'The Two Towers,' for example, ought never to be read in isolation. — Edward M. Lerner

She was happiest when sitting about and reading. She had read thousands of books, seeing no point in doing anything else unless you had to. — Ruth Rendell

Well, before I knew there was going to be a film. I was the biggest Harry Potter fan. I read all the books. — Rupert Grint

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

I need to experience books, not just read them. — Lauren Morrill

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

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

I never read prefaces, and it is not much good writing things just for people to skip. I wonder other authors have never thought of this. — E. Nesbit

There are two kinds of books. Those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read. — H.L. Mencken

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book. — Sylvia Brownrigg

I read everything aloud, novels as well as picture books. I believe the eye and ear are different listeners. So as writers, we have to please both. — Jane Yolen

Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games. — Ang Lee

We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too. — Nick Hornby

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

We go to school to learn what books to read for the rest of our lives. — Robert Frost

I was thinking, So, I'm Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books now. — Robert Graves

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

Read good books to improve your life. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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

When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books. — Stephen Baldwin

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means. — Carla H. Krueger

It's like why people read scary books or go see scary movies. Because it creates a distance. They're scared, but they're not going to get hurt. — Vincent D'Onofrio

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

I didn't read comic books; that's not something that was really available to me as a child. We watched more cartoons and movies. — Candice Patton

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

For books, timing is everything. The moment you first encounter a particular book is the right time to read it. — Marie Kondo

I have travel to sacred places through the pages of books. — Lailah Gifty Akita

I vow I shall give all my very best books to the underprivileged, once I have read them — Barbara Kingsolver

Often, when I am able to check out a book, I read it a dozen times before returning it, desperate to remain lost in the magic of someone else's story. — Amy Engel

Only you can know the difference between your wants and your needs, and your sacrifice of your life's time to both. — Carew Papritz

Someone mentioned therapy to me once. I read a book instead. ~ Drew Stirling — Jayden Hunter

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step. — Mark Helprin

I love to read books! There are so many authors that I think are really fun to read. — Tom Angleberger

I write about what haunts me, and I write the books I myself am dying to read. I love it. I can't think of anything I'd rather do. — Caroline Leavitt

I read books, but I do it because I want to - because it's like an escape in my head, like being with you. — Sarah Rees Brennan

I read books to read myself. — Sven Birkerts

When you learn to read you will be born again ... and you will never be quite so alone again. — Rumer Godden

I have to read comic books all first, because now when you get into graphic novels, they are definitely in deep graphic. — Virginia Madsen

Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like this. — Carol Plum-Ucci

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know. — Alberto Manguel

Jack reads too many books. He thinks we're going to drive all year and have great adventures. — Steven Herrick