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Books make the best ersatz friendships.
— Nenia Campbell
I used to collect comic books. I had a substantial collection. I collect records also, but those have gone the way of the world.
— Robin Zander
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books.
— Margaret Atwood
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
— Joyce Carol Oates
The worth of a book is infinite.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Ten minutes of careful searching later, Maelyn faced the dismal truth - she was bookless.
— Anita Valle
Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.
— Susan Sontag
Why does the writing make us chase the writer? Why can't we leave well enough alone? Why aren't the books enough?
— Julian Barnes
As soon as he reached home, Geppetto took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a Marionette.
— Carlo Collodi
She became his Ariadne, leading him through the labyrinth of books, stopping now and then to pass another one to him.
— Donna Leon
Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.
— Danny Tyran
I got an assistantship in physics at the University of Illinois, and I tore up my steno books.
— Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
Books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality.
— Joe Queenan
We worshipped in the temple of cutthroat competition, and so some cooked the books, because the treasure is so great.
— Desmond Tutu
Never underestimate the power of giving a book!
— Carmela Dutra
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.
— Julien Green
Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
As a youngster I was a great dreamer, reading many books of adventure and walking lonely miles with my head in the clouds.
— Edmund Hillary
Once you fight the demons that live in your heart, the ones that live outside will never knock you door.
— Birdy Fogh
You know, I don't only play for the record books.
— Roger Federer
Sometimes, I'll hear from other writers or folks in the publishing industry that my books are rule-breakers, which I take as a compliment.
— Kristan Higgins
Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
— Samuel Johnson
The more sins you confess, the more books you will sell.
— Ninon De L'Enclos
STAY THE COURSE BY FORCE!
— Qwana M. BabyGirl Reynolds-Frasier
Jack always had said you knew a person by the books they read ... or didn't read.
— Charlaine Harris
Books read in a public library never have the same flavour as books read in the attic or the kitchen.
— Alberto Manguel
The book which most deserved to be banned would be a catalog of banned books.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
To say nothing means to give one's consent.
— Asne Seierstad
Should books not have been there, hearsay would have been the best reading material!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
He confided his deepest secret to you; be always wary of his secret.
— Dejan Stojanovic
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
— Thomas Jefferson
Melancholy isn't a sign of the book's end; it is its inspiration. Melancholy is reading's muse.
— Andrew Piper
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the fellow who can't read a line.
— Mark Twain
The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness.
— Chris Ware
Books are the curse of the human race.
— Benjamin Disraeli
But the book! The siren song of the book!
— Ellen Douglas
Some men borrow books; some men steal books; and others beg presentation copies from the author.
— James Jeffrey Roche
We collect books in the belief that we are preserving them when in fact it is the books that preserve their collector.
— Walter Benjamin
All I did was go to the library to borrow some books
— Haruki Murakami
The Bible informs, reforms and transforms. Other books merely informs
— Ikechukwu Joseph
When I have the Bible memorised, then I'll be able to go and read a couple other books.
— Stephen Baldwin
However it happens, the appeal of the books we return to is often, at least in part, a fascination with what we can't quite reach.
— Peter Turchi
'Success' is a seductive word. Thousands of books have been written on the subject. They promise money, freedom, leisure, and luxury.
— Joseph B. Wirthlin
There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
— Jackie Kennedy
If fiction and fantasy books are escapism, then let an author write them so as to better equip the reader to face reality by the end.
— Brett Armstrong
Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
— Malorie Blackman
Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes.
— Janet Evanovich
[My mum] was always like that: grateful for life itself. Her glass was not only half full, it was gold plated with a permanent refill.
— Sarah Winman
Oddly, the meanings of books are defined for me much more by their beginnings and middles than they are by their endings.
— Lev Grossman
I love character and voice, and my favourite books have been the ones in which I've become completely absorbed.
— Helen Oyeyemi
There is a magic in some books That sucks a man into connections With the spirits hard to touch That join him to his kind.
— Roger Waters
As a friend once pointed out, the crotchety dowagers do tend to get all the best lines. That may be why I have so many of them in my books.
— Lauren Willig
I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books.
— Michael Gruber
God works in mysterious ways so if you let the world dictate the way God works, you will miss God working.
— Jonah Books
Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.
— Rick Warren
My deep religiosity [ ... ] found an abrupt ending at the age of twelve, through the reading of popular scientific books.
— Albert Einstein
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
Often the true hero and heroines of my books are the houses, the places, the communities where people find a home.
— Jackie French
There were valuable first editions of books in the enormous library, most of them had been scribbled in by some idiot named Will H.
— Cassandra Clare
In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don't have books written about them have it easier.
— Jaroslav Kalfar
I am influenced by books which don't have their eye on the endgame, but which try to be entertaining on each and every page.
— Steve Toltz
What most people see is a badge, behind and beyond the badge is what they need to know...the person.
— Donna Brown
It's not what you will get out of the books that is so enriching - it is what the books will get out of you that will ultimately change your life
— Robin S. Sharma
If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.
— Kate Thompson