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When I sit down I write very fast ... if I haven't finished a book in two or three months then I think it's not going well. — Michael Morpurgo

Never read a book that is not a year old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Not even a book on prosperity can prosper you, when what is expected of you is given, your time won't be wasted. — Michael Bassey Johnson

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness. — Martin Luther

It takes an awful lot of time to not write a book. — Douglas Adams

It's not the same thing to make a work - a film, a book, a play - about youth as it is to make one about old age. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

O. J. Simpson theory of legal fees: I'm not paying you; you're lucky to be here; go make a buck with your book. — John Grisham

Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal. — Laura Miller

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not. — Jorge Luis Borges

A new book is still on its trial and the amateur is not in a position to judge it. — Athanasius Of Alexandria

Publication is a marathon, not a sprint. Writing the book is only the start. — Jo Linsdell

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people like or dislike it. — Paulo Coelho

The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not. — Maggie Stiefvater

I've always said that Watership Down is not a book for children. I say: it's a book, and anyone who wants to read it can read it. — Richard Adams

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there. — John Piper

The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff. — Mary Roach

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

A man carries his faith in him, not in some god of book or manifest destiny."

~ Jon Highfather — R.S. Belcher

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house. — Amy Tan

I had opened a book that could not be closed, started a story that had no obvious conclusion. It was a tale in which I wanted to play no part. — Matthew Skelton

I once considered writing a book called I'm not OK and you're not OK, and that's OK. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing. — M.J. Rose

He stopped and glared at her. It's a lifetime commitment in my book, lady. It's not an arrangement you nullify when things get a little tough to bear. — Francine Rivers

I am not the worst thing that can happen to you, but I will be the last. ~Caesar~ The Goodbye Man. — A. Giannoccaro

Not a single person has died of boredom reading this book. — Nicole Fende

All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe. — Tanya Huff

Character, I think, is the single most important thing in fiction. You might read a book once for its interesting plot - but not twice. — Diana Gabaldon

If I'm reading a book and it seems truly interesting, I tend to start reading back to front in order not to be too deeply under the sway of progress. — David Shields

I think there's something about studying a book which will kill it if you're not careful. — Michael Morpurgo

In the book, you lost your powers. In the movie, you chose not to use them as much. I guess I did a little of both. — Mara Wilson

It's such a pain in the ass to write a book, I can't imagine writing one if I'm not interested in the subject. — Michael Lewis

I have never met an author who was sorry he or she wrote a book. They are only sorry they did not write it sooner. — Sam Horn

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much. — Bent Larsen

Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann

Is Islam such a weak religion that it cannot tolerate a book written against it? Not my Islam! — Malala Yousafzai

Someone who does not write books, who thinks a lot, and who lives in unsatisfying society will usually be a good letter- writer. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Men may consider a female like a book and try judging her by the cover but she is not the book but the author of the destiny of mankind. — Amit Abraham

If you love a book you tend not to follow its surface value, you follow the other things in it. — Danny Boyle

I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book. — Craig Finn

Television captures the mind but does not liberate it. A good book at once stimulates and frees the mind. — Bruno Bettelheim

Scripture is a book about going to Heaven. It's not a book about how the heavens go. — Galileo Galilei

There is a book on Amazon: Destroying cancer (Tumors) with Ultrasound
Why nobody, not even his doctors told him about this method? ! ? ! — Steve Jobs

I'm so not a comic book guy. The most I knew about 'The Flash,' as a little kid, was the Underoos. I had 'The Flash' Underoos. — Jesse L. Martin

At the same time, as you know, unless you are a comic book reader, Daredevil is not a known thing. — Avi Arad

I'm not of a science background, I was never a comic book geek, and I was never a gamer. — Niall Matter

Experience life, pick up a good book and appreciate the moment, for the moment, not the replay. — Serina Hartwell

Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page. — Barbara Mertz

Groucho Marx This is not a book that should be set aside lightly - it should be flung with great force. — Groucho Marx

He had appointed her not only guardian angel, but a member of his ideals. — Anais Nin

A book did not qualify as literature unless it had polysyllabic words and incomprehensible passages. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Just imagine what you are losing just because you are not reading! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I was not a big comic-book reader. — Brad Bird

Morality's not practical. Morality's a gesture. A complicated gesture learnt from books. — Robert Bolt

Even in houses commonly held to be 'booky' one finds, nine times out of ten, not a library but a book-dump. — Edith Wharton

Bloom is not a book about living the perfect lifestyle, it's about giving you the confidence to find the lifestyle that is perfect for you. — Estee Lalonde

A novel should be a book of questions, not a book of answers. — Hilary Mantel

I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book. — Octavia Spencer

[...] She knew it a book it was not just a book. Everything had a meaning. There was an invisible web that connected the words. It was like magic — Ben Oliveira

Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book. — Magus Tor

A religion is not contained in a single book; there's something religious in almost any book. — John A. Buehrens

If I were a better artist, I'd be a painter, and if I were a better writer, I'd write books.. but I'm not, so I draw cartoons! — Charles M. Schulz

I was not an avid comic book reader as a kid. — Ciara Renee

If we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus out of season. — Katharine Fullerton Gerould

The fact the book was a tragic one did not make me unhappy since I believed that life was a tragedy and knew it could have only one end. — Ernest Hemingway,

You're either reading a book or you're not. — Jonathan Franzen

One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing. — Bob Mayer

I have never written a book that was not born out of a question I needed to answer for myself. — May Sarton

When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a colouring book, with the inside not yet completed. — Sarah Dessen

It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few. — Richard Baxter

I do not know a better cure for mental illness than a book. — Irving Stone

If you want a fast, fun and sexy read, then Do Not Assume is the book for you. — Elaine Williams Crockett

A strong man does not succumb to pressures, he knows that without pressures he will not find pleasures and so he will not be made. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

The journey is the mystery ... the destination the answer. If you don't have a happy ending yet, you have not finished reading the right book. — Shannon L. Alder

There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in repeating myself. — Jay Neugeboren

Its not the love that hurts but the scented memories of anticipated dreams of a future together — Kiran Joshi

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything ... — Ann Beattie

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

If you were at school they would not let you read a book like this, they would keep you from reading it by involving you in sport. — Helen DeWitt

Many hidden truths are often unobserved, not invisible. — Matthew A. Petti

A visit always brings pleasure-- if not when it begins, then when it ends. (Quoted from another book) — Emmanuel Carrere

Not all fiction writers are evil, just the ones good at their job. After all, it's not a decent book if it can't make you cry. — Ellie Rose McKee

I'm trying to get as far way from myself as I can.........from Things Have Changed by Bob Dylan (not a book but .........) — Bob Dylan

A book may not tell us exactly how to live our own lives, but our own lives can teach us how to read a book. — Rebecca Mead

Life is to short and dull not to have a book you like in hand. — Peter Richards

It was well said of a certain German book that 'er lasst sich nicht lesen" - it does not permit itself to be read. — Edgar Allan Poe

There is much to discover that's not on the back cover! — E.A. Bucchianeri

Lit majors are not known for watching where they're going; most of us walk with our eyes in a book instead of on the path ahead. — Rachel Vincent

A good book is not the same as a successful one. — Johnny Rich

The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn't matter — Jim Rohn

Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer

Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

[On book promotion:] The reward for writing well appears to be not to be able to do it for a long time. — Rosellen Brown

Oh, woe to the woman who sticks her nose in a book and forgets that real life is not always destined for Happily Ever After. — Dorothy Cannell

You know there's got to be a better way of life - somewhere, sometime, somehow - but you're not exactly sure what better is. — Carew Papritz

I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) — Christopher Nolan

Truth is not a right to be claimed, but a gift for those who are able to conquer it. — Luis Marques

I do not remember a time since I have been capable of loving books that I have not loved Shakespeare. — Helen Keller

After reading a book, you become someone else: Now you are not you, but you plus the book! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

A good bookshop is not just about selling books from shelves, but reaching out into the world and making a difference. — David Almond

Unfortunately, there is not a book in the Bible called First and Second Executive or Letter to the Christian Plumbers. Instead, — William, Executive Editor Messenger