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Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed. — Ronald Reagan

Reality Hunger is more than thought-provoking; it's one of the most beautiful books I've read in a long time. — Jonathan Safran Foer

For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that. — Adrian Tomine

Books had instant replay long before televised sports. — Bernard Williams

In Germany, I have been called the Queen of Kitsch, but I don't mind that - as long as people buy the books. — Rosamunde Pilcher

You must live long enough to remember your mistake. That is your punishment. That is your destiny. — E. Mellyberry

The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old. — Natalie Babbitt

The Book Charm

Your Story Will Never End As Long As Your Chapters Are Shared — Viola Shipman

You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves. — Dr. Seuss

The queerness doesn't matter so long as they're friends. — L. Frank Baum

When I started earning money from screen-writing, for a long time my only indulgences were books. — John Logan

Before long, I had lost my youth and my patience for indulging others. Books were everything in life; books were better than wine. — Matthew Pearl

It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his ideas live. — Christopher Paolini

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories. — Maureen Corrigan

As long as she had books and money, nothing could be a catastrophe. — Katarina Bivald

Strangers talking over piles of books do not remain strangers for long. — Matthew Pearl

It took me ten years and seven books to bag an agent - it took me that long to start writing good. — Jasper Fforde

She was a bibliophile - she would be perfectly happy never talking to another human being again as long as she had books to read. — Brenda L. Harper

I don't know exactly how long the book as we know it will exist, but I fully expect to make it to my death without having to give up on books. — Rick Moody

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books. — Mark Z. Danielewski

During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games. — Nolan Gould

People need stories ... we use stories to teach, to learn, to make sense of the world around us. As long as we need stories, we will need books. — Jennifer Chiaverini

I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books. — Larry Winget

Without books, I would have gone insane long ago. — Damien Echols

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace. — Helene Hanff

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say. — Celia Green

Nor would I willingly miss the early darkness and the pleasant firelight tea and the long evenings among my books. — Elizabeth Von Arnim

We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law. — Lyndon B. Johnson

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas. — Swami Vivekananda

Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books! — Keegan Allen

One could get a first-class education from a shelf of books five feet long. — Charles William Eliot

I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much more fun writing kids' books. — Ellen Potter

But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction. — Daniel Woodrell

Great language and great literature do not survive long without each other — Lance Conrad

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn? — Idries Shah

If the eye really was a muscle, I had pulled it long ago. — Brodi Ashton

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field. — Eleanor Catton

Have you ever been heartbroken to finish a book? Has a writer kept whispering in your ear long after the last page is turned? — Elizabeth Maguire

Size has nothing to do with literature. All legs are long enough to touch the ground, and all books are big enough to fill their covers. — Walter Kirn

We told each other what movies we were currently watching and what books we were reading. — Ernest Cline

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them. — Tahereh Mafi

I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well. — Kate Seredy

Speak to any editor and ask them what they turned down, and they'll have long lists of books. — Jasper Fforde

Having struggled with food issues and eating disorders myself, particularly when I was younger, I've long been interested in using it within my books. — Jane Green

I think books and movies are going to go a long way together in the future. I think we writers are very important material for directors. — Tatiana De Rosnay

Surprising what you can dig out of books if you read long enough, isn't it? — Robert Jordan

She saw the shallow lines beaded with blood in her long mirror, and when he told her that she was beautiful, she believed him. — Astrid Knowles

You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me. — C.S. Lewis

I treated the first few books as a very long journalistic exercise. I thought of every chapter as an article that needed to be finished. — Jane Green

I'll keep writing 'Dune' books as long as my mother's spirit continues to support the project. — Brian Herbert

Please bury me in the library
With a dozen long-stemmed proses — J. Patrick Lewis

I don't want to be famous per se, but I want to write books for as long as I can. And I plan on writing a lot. — Amanda Hocking

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible. — Barbara Hambly

I'm glad to know I will never live long enough to run out of books to read. — Douglas Self

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough. — Irwin Shaw

For a long time, I kept an eye out for element eighty at school and in books, as you might watch for a childhood friend's name — Sam Kean

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

Be a life long student, read as many books as possible. — Nelson Mandela

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

In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long. — Alberto Manguel

I can talk to fish!" Angel said happily, water dripping off her long, skinny body. "Ask one over for dinner," Fang said, joining us. — James Patterson

I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again. — Michael Dirda

You can cover a great deal of Countries in books. — Andrew Long

Quit smoking in the hope of growing old. It takes a long time to write. People go to books for wisdom and older authors tend to have more of it. — Barbara Kingsolver

As winter approaches - bringing cold weather and family drama - we crave page-turners, books made for long nights and tryptophan-induced sloth. — Sarah MacLean

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 think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never meet. — Michael Dirda

As long as I can buy records and books and maybe some clothes, I'm pretty stoked. I don't need a yacht or anything. — Conor Oberst

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. — David Remnick

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 decided long ago that life's absurd. If you don't develop a sense of humor, it will drive you mad. — James Maxey

Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs. — Katherine Applegate

A man, in his books, may be said to walk the earth a long time after he is gone. — John Muir

Since I spend such a long time making each book, I only choose books that I'm really interested in and that I really love. — Brian Selznick

Books have long been instruments of the divinatory arts. — Alberto Manguel

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

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

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

For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that matter, need be unhappy. — Selma Lagerlof

Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed. — Theodore Roosevelt

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them. — Jean Webster

Tell the story you want to tell, and let it be as long as it needs to be. Worry about marketing it later. — Patricia C. Wrede

The definition of a good story is one that remains with you long after you've turned that last page. — T.A. Uner

Life, it's a long road but a short ride. — Paul Carafotes

So long as ignorance and misery remain on earth, books like this cannot be useless. — Victor Hugo

As long as I live, I will always remember those wee children standing at the railing on that ship. - John Hanlon, the sailor — Deana J. Driver

I think that the economics of book publishing favor hits with long book runs. You make all your money on the last bunch of books, not the first. — Seth Godin

Love ... who needed love? As long as she had her books and her friends and an occasional hookup, she was perfectly content. — Lauren Conrad

Although all days are equally long regardless of the season, some days are long not only seasonally but by rewards they offer. — Dejan Stojanovic

As long as you stay cool, nothing can defeat you — Nash

I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. — John Howe

As long as we have books, we are not alone. — Laura Bush

She would keep playing the role of the winner as long as the audience believed her. — Mary Papas

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use. — Victor Hugo

He watched her walk away with a sway in her hips that tossed her long, milk-chocolate-colored ponytail from side to side. — Meg Knight

a light that made me think of long hours in dusty libraries, and old books, and silence. — Donna Tartt

I'd volunteer to go to prison, as long as there are books. Because with books I am free. — Mohammad Hatta

I wrote long reviews of all four books if you want to take a look. — Manny Rayner

There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books. — Catherynne M Valente