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The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest. — Chinua Achebe

The biggest critics of my books are the people who never read them. — Jackie Collins

Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books. — David McCullough

One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly with the American people. — Oliver North

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with. — Jeannette Walls

Fall into the cavern of my mind, and together there, we will dine. — Brad Jensen

The book that I shall make people read
is the book of the heart,
which holds the key
to the mystery of life — Meher Baba

The Word of God is so much broader than people are giving it credit for. Look at Proverbs, a book written on how to live. — Beth Moore

the value of intellectuals is neither their intellect nor the value of their intellect but the value of what they use their intellect to do — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

How many people could say truthfully their god was a few feet away from them, made flesh, and that heaven was to be by his side? — John Wiltshire

You who think of us: they lived only in delusion ... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die! — Czeslaw Milosz

We who preach have one tool. We are people of the book. — John Ortberg

I think when people hear about a celebrity writing a book of any kind, the assumption is that it was dictated to a ghostwriter. — Molly Ringwald

Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses. — Alasdair Gray

The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding up 'Cinna' signs. — Lenny Kravitz

Now, for my younger viewers out there, a book is something we used to have before the internet. It's sort of a blog for people with attention spans. — Stephen Colbert

I always have enjoyed people to read for me or to have the chace to listen of how they narrate a book. — Deyth Banger

Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Fake Math owes its existence to a number of things and people who have inspired and assisted this book on its way into the world. — Ryan Fitzpatrick

I love the sound of people thinking. — Will Bly

By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it. — J.G. Ballard

I'll leave it to other people to evaluate the legacy of my book, but I'm very moved when musicians tell me that they've been inspired by my book. — Michael Azerrad

The average page of a book weighs about 0.035 of an ounce, but getting people to keep turning them takes enormous effort. — Dave Preston

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

I write a lot about my experiences and the people I meet. I've got a lot of material. But a book about me? It seems sort of odd. — Kevin Spacey

God bless the book people for their boundless knowledge absorbed from having words instead of friends. — Mackenzi Lee

For books are people... people who have managed to stay alive by hiding between the covers of a book."
E B White. — Nigel Jay Cooper

Literally thousands of e-mails over the course of a book go out to people I've never met, people who might end up being the focus of a chapter. — Mary Roach

She loved to return to the world of the book, a workd in which people were willing to let go of everything in order to follow their passions. — Brian Morton

I would rather be governed by the first 2000 people in the Manhattan phone book than the entire faculty of Harvard. — William F. Buckley Jr.

The Notebook ... that's my favorite one. I've read that book 30 times. It gives a true depiction of two people that are in love. — Kevin Gates

Adam Smith is misread as being amoral precisely because people don't read his first book, because they don't read 'The Theory of Moral Sentiments.' — P. J. O'Rourke

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people. — Adam Braver

I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted. — Ken Ham

The third biggest comic people in America want to make a comic book out of me. It's unbelievable. — Mark Roberts

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God. — Maria Mitchell

There ain't nobody in the world like book people. It's a business of gentlemen and gentlewomen. — Gabrielle Zevin

Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books. — G. N. Devy

Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people. — Paramahansa Yogananda

In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low. — Aldous Huxley

40% of people who graduate college never read a book again. If you are in the remaining 60% you are 1000x ahead of everyone else. — James Altucher

A lot of people who saw 'The Avengers' didn't read comic books, don't like comic book movies, and enjoyed it. That was huge for me. — Joss Whedon

She went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes: — Lewis Carroll

They eviscerated the book by making it an action movie for young people aged 15 to 25, and it seems that The Hobbit will be the same kind of film. — Christopher Tolkien

Some people have big dreams in life which they never fulfill. Others don't have any dreams in life, and they don't fulfill those either. — Fernando Pessoa

We had 1 book, the phone book, I've read it, it wasn't a great read, lots of characters, and on the end loads of polish people turn up. — Stephen K. Amos

I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree. — Bobby Fischer

In the same way once a book is printed and published it ceases to be the property of the
author; he commits it to the care of other people; — Virginia Woolf

Sometimes people run out and read a lot of books, but they don't absorb anything from them. They want to read the next popular book. — Echo Bodine

People have no memory of phone numbers now because of the cell phone - their address book is in a cell phone. — Gordon Bell

I was never one to begrudge people their memories. From a child I would listen when they spoke of the past. — Rachel Field

My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation. — Lev Grossman

It's risky most of the time, but its better to listen to your heart. — Jonathan Anthony Burkett

The drama is the book of the people. — Robert Aris Willmott

I tried to depict the human face of this history, I wanted to write a book that people would actually want to read. — Imre Kertesz

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave. — Anne Sexton

One of the things that novels have tended not to concentrate on over the centuries is the fact that people read books. — Jonathan Lethem

Hello. My name is Henry. I am a fan. Somewhere in the late 1980s', I got tired of people telling me to get a life. I wrote a book instead — Henry Jenkins

The holy book is implanted in the hearts and minds of all the Muslims. Humiliation of the holy book represents the humiliation of our people. — Hamid Karzai

I find that most people that zealously defend Darwin have not actually read Darwin; definitely not Darwin's second book, The Descent of Man. — A.E. Samaan

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

The only way to write a book, I'm fond of telling people, is to actually write a book. That's how you write a book. — Anne Enright

You can't condemn an entire species of people because of the actions of one man. — Elizabeth Richards

This is the right time
They are the right people
Will it be enough for mankind?

From "The Rishis: Book of Secrets. — Robert Delgado

The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does. — Michael Gerson

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it? — John Ruskin

Wasn't that the point of the book? For women to realize, We are just two people. Not that much separates us. Not nearly as much as I'd thought. — Kathryn Stockett

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book. — Jane Smiley

There's a lot of people that need these stories, and they can't come to my book, so I'm going to be the bookmobile and I'm going to come to them. — Sandra Cisneros

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

Seeing people who are actually reading your book and listening to the wide variety of reactions they have to it, is really special. — Veronica Roth

Making suffering loom larger, by globalizing it, may spur people to feel they ought to "care" more. — Susan Sontag

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. — Ray Bradbury

I sent my words out onto the wind
to paths unseen and parts unknown
in hopes people will enjoy
this book of poetic words I've sown — Charles Johnson

I firmly believe that if you can't fool all of the people all of the time you should start breeding them for stupidity. - Weisshaupt — Dave Sim

The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible. — Gordon Stein

The inevitable aftermath for being [People Of The Book] is turning into [Worshipers Of The Book]. — Ibrahim Ibrahim

He wondered how many other people were lucky enough to have an entire universe of need satisfied by one blond-haired man. — John Wiltshire

Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home. — Jackie French

the top 10% of people who buy a nonfiction book. — Anthony Robbins

I don't understand it when people get cross about how one of their works was adapted and say, 'Oh, they ruined it!' Well, the book is still there. — Susan Hill

People who read poetry, for example, like the feel, the heft and the smell of a book. — Simon Armitage

Middlemarch, the magnificent book which with all its imperfections is one of the few English novels for grown-up people. — Virginia Woolf

Some people are worried about the future of comics and some people are busy building it. That latter group are my heroes. — Gail Simone

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book ... I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right. — Groucho Marx

Isabel Wilkerson's book is a masterful narrative of the rich wisdom and deep courage of a great people. Don't miss it! — Cornel West

Motherfuckers will read a book that's one third Elvish, but put two sentences in Spanish and they [white people] think we're taking over. — Junot Diaz

Part of the reason I wrote the book was I wanted to understand for myself why such good people let themselves get treated so badly. — Stephen Chbosky

The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. — Anne Rice

You need not to burn copies of a book. Just make people feel indifferent to the book. — Lara Biyuts

Perhaps I should call the Guinness Book people. I wondered what the world record was for not being sure whether you committed a string of murders? — Jeff Lindsay

Only the most pleasant characters in this book are portraits of living people and the events here recorded unfortunately never took place. — Margery Allingham

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own. — Daniel Kahneman

Authors tell stories with "the express intention of wanting people to believe them, at least until the book is closed. — Elizabeth Edmonson

Most of the people who write to me are really clever, really engaged. They just want to say that they have read my book and liked it. — Denise Mina

What many people don't know about 'Peter Pan' is that it's a very violent book and Hook is one of the most finely observed villains ever. — Eoin Colfer

I would only read the novels that people classify as 'beach books' if I were being held prisoner and the only alternative was the 'Book of Mormon.' — Tom Robbins

When a group of people sing together, we make up a chorus. When birds do, it's more like a whole symphony orchestra. — Laura Erickson

Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people. — Albert Einstein

A book very much is the center of the road, so people always can refer back to it. — Sakyong Mipham