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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

Once you've put one of his [Henry James] books down, you simply can't pick it up again. — Mark Twain

There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning, and those are the 'Missing Link' books. — Kate Thompson

The largest two books I've ever read more than once are 'Bleak House' by Charles Dickens and 'The Stand' by Stephen King, about 1,200 pages each. — Simon Toyne

You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts. — Melissa Marr

Since I've written many of my books from a less-than-sympathetic viewpoint, I think that being able to see things from all sides is a useful talent. — Alex Flinn

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things. — Mitch Albom

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 believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career. — Caroline B. Cooney

And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books. — P.B. Kerr

Replace your old books with the books you've always wanted to write. — Rob Bignell, Editor

Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity. — Fred Saberhagen

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels. — Lee Child

I love Harry Potter. I've read all the books several times. — Lorelei Linklater

If the wealth you've accumulated is in the form of friends, family and books, then you're doing life right. — Saleem Sharma

I've written many nonfiction books, but that's a special gift. — Tim LaHaye

Well, now that we've knocked over one another's books, isn't the next step for our hands to accidentally touch while we're picking them up? — Lauren Kate

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

Ninety percent of the comic books I've written in the past had little or nothing to do with Islam. — G. Willow Wilson

Because we all know that the books we've loved best are seldom the ones we esteem the most highly — Laura Miller

I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me. — Nicola Yoon

If I had a clear vision, none of my books would be what they are. I've got to let the characters show me the way. — Shandy L. Kurth

I've read way too much on the overused/misunderstood buzzwords "Show, don't tell!" that I'm convinced all novels should now be picture books — Michael Kroft

I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards. — Maeve Binchy

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story. — George Brett

I've been a big music guy for a long time and a lot of my books have music in them so I like music analogies. — Charles Soule

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that. — Brad Thor

There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books. — Robert H. Schuller

I've been to a lot of school and read a lot of thick books, but at my very core there's a made-for-TV-movie mentality I don't think i will ever shake. — Pam Houston

I don't think I am green. It's true I only know what I've read in books, but I've read a great many books — Georgette Heyer

This is no way to treat a book," he said. "Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them. — Terry Pratchett

Since I learned to read I've used them as a kind of anaesthetic. — Sue Townsend

But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? — Shannon Hale

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

The first sign that Karma was now in cahoots with the Devil Incarnate to ruin her existance should've been before sunrise and pre-coffee. — Kelly Moran

So, whenever I'm writing, I'm writing in the presence of all the other books I've read and I think we all are. — Justin Cronin

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

I've written whole books in order to avoid writing other books. — Sarah Manguso

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

I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life. — Rob Zombie

All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are — Niall Williams

I meet people, and we can get past small talk pretty quickly if they've read my books. It's a great shortcut. — Ruth Reichl

I've read a lot of books, so I know bunches of stuff that sounds like it could be true. — Brian Andreas

I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women. — Hill Harper

I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past 20 years. — Dean Koontz

I've always loved books. I was an avid reader, with any number of my own stories rolling around in my head. Writing them down seemed a logical step. — Kat Martin

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve. — Hilary Liftin

I've been reading a lot of books on history, and watching a lot of educational TV. Wikipedia too, even though it is not reliable. — Vir Das

I've made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery. — Jeff Zentner

I'm inspired by many different things. Often, I'm inspired by experiences I've had, books I've read, people I've met, stories I've heard. — Joseph Bruchac

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

People are always thinking that I'm the main character in my books, but each one has been different, and sometimes they've been men. — Sue Miller

At home I've got 1,500 cook books and the spines have all gone, the pages are all torn - it's chaos. — Heston Blumenthal

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

I've known since I was 12 that I wanted to write. My father was a teacher, and there were so many books around, it seemed natural to pick them up. — Michael Robotham

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read. — John Wooden

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

I've died before. It was boring, so I stood up. — Warren Ellis

I got in the habit of giving away a book as soon as I've finished it because I lived in a housing co-op at Cambridge and had no space to keep books. — Emma Donoghue

I don't read books regularly, because I'm always writing them. I've written 30 books, thousands of pages. — Ferran Adria

Something will be offensive to someone in every book, so you've got to fight it. — Judy Blume

I've been called many things in my time, but never a conduit of divinity- Cedric MacKinnon, My Fearful Symmetry — Denise Verrico

I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business. — Gary Vaynerchuk

Books don't just go with you, they take you where you've never been. — Anonymous

I've been sifting through the layers
of dusty books and faded papers.
They tell a story I used to know;
one that happened so long ago. — Kate Wolf

I've never really thought of writing books. I've never thought about stories as a part of a collection. — Deborah Eisenberg

I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down. — Margaret Drabble

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

I've read some scripts, but I don't read as many books as I should. — Stephen Dorff

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

I've been reading the books. It's the origination, it's the primary source. You should always go back to the books. — Benedict Cumberbatch

I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies. — Dawn Angelique

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

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

I've never watched any of the adaptations of my books. I've never wanted to, and there's absolutely no chance of me doing so in the future. — Alan Moore

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

I've been changed watching films or reading books or hearing music, and that helps you to live your life. — Juliette Binoche

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 love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed. — Helen Oyeyemi

I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children. — Ray Bradbury

Catch me on a good day, I think half of my books aren't too bad. Catch me on a bad day, I think I've never written a good line. — Dennis Lehane

I'm a better writer now because I've worked very hard at getting better. My long-range goal will always be to write better books. — George Pelecanos

I've never turned into a bee - I've never been chased by a mummy or met a ghost. But many of the ideas in my books are suggested by real life. — R.L. Stine

If you'd died on me, I would've taken it out on your corpse."

Raven Heartstone Celenti to Paladin Carison Destine — Ruth Ford Elward

I've always read books and loved human behavior since I was ten or twelve years old. Maybe even that's why I wanted to do comedy. — Dane Cook

The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read. — Fran Tarkenton

I've come to the realization that I really only want to write books that maybe I can't write. — Markus Zusak

If you keep doing what you've always done, you'll keep getting what you've always gotten! — Marc Ostrofsky

You've got to be something of a dreamer to enjoy books, at least to begin with. — Katarina Bivald

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

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

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years ... appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American. — Howard Frank Mosher

I had/have a habit of sending books out before they're ready. And then I edit with almost absurd intensity. But I've done about a book a year. — Shane McCrae

I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture. — Laura Marling

Mary Stewart will always be my goddess. I can pick up one of her early books - one I've read a dozen times - and still slide right into the story. — Nora Roberts

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

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

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me. — Thomas Moore

You've really got to start hitting the books because it's no joke out here. — Harper Lee

Reading the books, I've always loved reading. It was easier than talking. Like a child playing games. — Elise Kova