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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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