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One of the inconveniences of stealing books - especially for a novice like myself - is that sometimes you have to take what you can get. — Roberto Bolano

Books aren't for decoration, they are to improve the design of one's interior. — Karen A. Chase

Your father's zeal for books will be one of the last desires which will quit him, Abigail observed to John Quincy — David McCullough

Out of worship and out of love he would let no one light the stove for her either, as if he would be the warmth and the fire to dry and warm her feet. — Anais Nin

Where I'm taking you, no one will ever find us. We'll have all the time in the world for you to grow to love me as much as I love you. — Sanjida Kay

Puckett's Stacks was not the sort of bookshop one happened upon; it was the sort of bookshop for which one looked deliberately. — C. Robert Cargill

I just wanted to be the first one to fly for America, not because I'd end up in the pages of history books. — Alan Shepard

It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and their authors. — Alice Steinbach

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

Producing words isn't a problem for me. And I usually write two books at a time. When one horse gets winded, you jump on the other. — Don Winslow

One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us. — Cassandra Clare

I thought of the past and how one should have respect for it, like the elderly. — Sloane Crosley

That's the magic of books. They're never quite the same for any two people. When you read one, you automatically make it your own. — Janette Rallison

Hate will cause you to "catch a case". Release yourself from your own personal jail before you are put in the real one for life! It ain't worth it!! — Anita R. Sneed-Carter

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

One of the biggest motivations for me with writing my books is to offer girls some escapism, especially girls who really need it, like I did. — Meg Cabot

So he said 'I'm going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library.' I thought 'That's a turn-up for the books.' — Tommy Cooper

James Altucher reminds me for Stephen King... when is about Stephen King his 2 sons, probably the one or no,no both they look like him. — Deyth Banger

That is, to me at least, one of the most helpful and useful things books do for us: They are generous enough to allow us to choose what matters to us. — John Green

If you take 'The Hobbit' and 'The Lord of the Rings' as books, one is written for children, and one is an adult's book. — Peter Jackson

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. — Samuel Butler

The next day we left for Rome. I had decided to make my books last and read only one book a week, but instead I gorged myself on them. — Jo Walton

Books swept me away, this way and that, one after the other; I made endless vows according to their lights for I believed them. — Annie Dillard

One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality. — K.A. Applegate

The only book Knight didn't steal was the one he most often saw. 'I had no need for a Bible,' he said. — Michael Finkel

One of the things I love most about acting, that I get to do research and read books, but it's just for me and I don't have to write about it. — Ruby Bentall

The number of books increased on the shelves neatly made for him by one of his carpenter friends. The room began to look like a home. — Maxim Gorky

The biggest mistake in puppy training, which is also the most common one, is punishing the dog for bad behavior. — Vivaco Books

The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry. — Lynda Barry

I read in one of the gardening books that manure was very good for soil, so I had a shitload delivered. — Kaaron Warren

The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. — Ray Bradbury

He blinked, then roared with laughter. "Eve Dallas, Vampire Slayer. One for the books."
~Eternity in Death — J.D. Robb

Digital publishing allows an author a new platform for which the words of one heart can be shared with all souls of the world. — Molly Friedenfeld

the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish. — Aubrey F.G. Bell

I have gone to [this bookshop] for years, always finding the one book I wanted - and then three more I hadn't known I wanted. — Mary Ann Shaffer

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books ... — Xinran

The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think. — Harper Lee

A little known fact: I read all the time. books were the one thing that got me out of Gatlin, even if it was only for a little while. — Kami Garcia

In the end all books are written for your friends. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Books, the books that I loved above all else to spend my time with, were the great tools for understanding one's life and the lives of other people. — Ellen Douglas

She remembered her books in the moments of worst sorrow, especially the ones that were made for her and the one that saved her life. — Markus Zusak

I have a strong opinion that a genuine love of books is one of the greatest blessings of life for man and woman ... — Sara Coleridge

Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn't finding an idea, it's choosing one — Jo Linsdell

One similarity I see between peers and some of the people who read my books is that comics were definitely an outlet for us. — Brian Michael Bendis

A love for good books was one of the best safeguards a man could have, — Louisa May Alcott

There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. — Bertrand Russell

the partition was rolled up for ventilation, and she was lying in her hammock reading one of the books Vernon had brought, a thriller called utopia. — Douglas Preston

Books have a smell, for instance. One that gets better - more nostalgic - as the years go by. Does this gadget of yours have a smell?" "Nope, — Stephen King

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. — Anatole France

One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time. — Carl Sagan