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Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
— Christopher Paolini
I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous, that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream.
— Louisa May Alcott
Books gnaw at me from around the edges of my life, demanding more time and attention. I am always left hungry.
— Pamela Paul
My father was a tyrant about reading, and that put me off books when I was little.
— Honeysuckle Weeks
My wanting to write books annihilates the original root impulse that would have me bravely and blunderingly working on them.
— Sylvia Plath
My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me.
— Jenny Nimmo
I credit Podiobooks and the free audio podcasts for helping me develop the audience I needed when I started selling my books in text forms.
— Nathan Lowell
You cannot force me to make my wishes now" She squared her shoulders and looked at him. "I've read texts.
— Melissa Marr
I gave him my best cryptic smile. He did not fall down to his feet, kiss my shoes, and promise me the world. I must be getting rusty.
— Ilona Andrews
Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.
— Nicholas Sparks
From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.
— Alberto Manguel
Words have always swirled around me like snowflakes-each one delicate and different, each one melting untouched in my hands.
— Sharon M. Draper
Your sensitivity, your tenderness, your eyes make me pick up my pen and write, Mrignayni!
— Avijeet Das
Stretched out in front of me was my time as an adult, and then a skeleton, and then nothing except perhaps a few books on a few shelves.
— Lemony Snicket
It has always been a great comfort to me that I could bring a book anywhere, to any place. To any part of my life.
— Anton DiSclafani
Books saved my sanity, knowledge opened the locked places in me and taught me first how to survive and then how to soar.
— Gloria E. Anzaldua
Books are my friends, my companion. They make me laugh and cry and find the meaning of life
— Christopher Paolini
People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say.'
— Jennifer Weiner
I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not.
— Eva Mendes
Books, shmooks, this sickness has got me wishing if I can ever get out of this I'll gladly become a millworker and shut my big mouth.
— Jack Kerouac
Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
— Marianne Williamson
My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.
— Herbert A. Simon
When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with my kids and husband. I love sports.
— Andrea Davis Pinkney
I get ideas for my books from people I know and what happens to them, from places I've been and what happens to me, and from things I read.
— E.L. Konigsburg
I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life.
— Anna Quindlen
The thing about me and books is that whichever one I'm reading always reminds me of whatever's happening in my life during that time.
— Lauren Barnholdt
I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me.
— Danny Burstein
I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
— Caroline Wozniacki
My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening. She read mainly travel books.
— Beverly Cleary
(mother) She used to tell me to get my nose out of my book and go get some fresh air.
— Emily Giffin
Getting all emotionally wrapped up in made-up people's lives gives me a chance to take a break from my own life [ ... ].
— Arlaina Tibensky
The people who loved me when I was seven years old love my books, and the people who didn't like me when I was seven years old don't like my books.
— Sherman Alexie
Pretend you're not spending $3 to read one of my books but buying me a coffee and having a conversation about yourself.
— Robin Sacredfire
In my own book-signings, I find humility. It's always humbling when people go out of their way to come visit with me and by some of my books.
— Nicholas Trandahl
Force me to choose my best book, and I always come back to 'Gorilla.' It was the first time I felt I understood what picture books could do.
— Anthony Browne
What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.
— Selma Lagerlof
Nobody wanted me. I just kept writing books and learning my craft. Most writers aren't very good in the beginning.
— Phyllis A. Whitney
Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my obsessive love for words and music.
— Charles De Lint
I wrote my first 30 books as a teacher. I would read to my classes, and they'd give me feedback. I was trying to role model.
— Eric Walters
I have my books and poetry to protect me
— Paul Simon
For me books have always been an incredibly solid part of my life, both as escapism and simply as resource.
— Jackie French
Give me good books, good conversations, and my Trek Y-Foil, and I shall want for nothing else.
— George Plimpton
If I were you, I'd go and do that. : VikalpThat's why you're not me! : Yatharth. — Shubham Choudhary
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up.
— Shawn Ashmore
I used to joke that she'd married me for my books and my knowledge of the field, and she used to laugh and shake her head.
— Jonathan Aycliffe
When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.
— Michel De Montaigne
The whole thing about my books and my life is that I create drama's always around me.
— Chelsea Handler
My love of books and ability to get buried in them while real life piles up outside the door always keeps me passive and deluded.
— Kay Dew Shostak
I've made books my life because they let me escape this world of cruelty and savagery.
— Jeff Zentner
When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
— Ann Brashares
Life had handed me a different set of cards and I was going to have to play my hand either way.
— Brittany Hawes
I have to get out," I told Sam. "I need to get away. Will you go with me?" "Anywhere," he said and kissed me.
— Jodi Meadows
I try hard and aim big. People can hate or love my books but they can never accuse me of not trying.
— Markus Zusak
Books stay with me and have shaped me and made huge impacts on my life.
— Stephan Jenkins
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
— Samantha Shannon
Reading always calmed me down: filling my head with other - made up - people's problems and conflicts made my own seem less terrible, less real.
— Heather James
My books are written from personal experience, from memories, and from stories that come to me from all places.
— Isabel Allende
'Moby-Dick' really threw me. I read it when I was 14 and my best friends were books. It changed the way I looked at the world.
— John Burnside
The venerable dead are waiting in my library to entertain me and relieve me from the nonsense of surviving mortals.
— Samuel Davies
Books exist for me not as physical entities with pages and binding, but in the province of my mind.
— Sara Sheridan
From the book:Fall On Your Knees pg. 124
One day, I'll sit down with all my books around me, and just start reading. — Ann-Marie MacDonald
His persistence baffled me. He was known to guard his privacy, and I had no reason to believe he'd ever read any of my books.
— Walter Isaacson
I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.
— Louisa May Alcott
Having the freedom to read and the freedom to choose is one of the best gifts my parents ever gave me.
— Judy Blume
Reading means never being bored and never being lonely. My books are my friends; they always provide me with a place to go.
— Satinder Bhatti
To me, the nicest luxury would be to have a room where I could keep all my books in one place - and have space for more.
— Annabelle Selldorf
Jim Longenbach, poet, critic, and my husband, is always passing along life-changing books for me to read.
— Joanna Scott
Come, my best friends, my best books, and lead me on.
— Abraham Cowley
If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good place to start if you're new to me and my books.
— Adrian McKinty
Toilet paper unrolled and slitheredthen wrapped around my tummy.
That paper tried to roll me up
into an Egyptian mummy. — Melinda K. Trotter
I didn't need a timequake to teach me being alive was a crock of shit. i already knew that from my childhood and crucifixes and history books.
— Kurt Vonnegut
My life is more than a waiting period; it is an expedition. How I perceive it, and how I improve upon it is solely up to me.
— Celeste Cooper
My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.
— A. N. Wilson
