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What wild desires, what restless torments seize
The hapless man, who feels the book-disease..."
- — John Ferriar

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

I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done. — Sarah Dessen

The positioning of the mind is what makes the difference between the failures and the successes. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

You Never Know....what is in the book that you read may lead you to.... — Kelvin

The last thing one knows when writing a book is what to put first. — Blaise Pascal

If you are reading this, you will get what you want. Believe in yourself and that's inspiration. — Chandan Sharma

The original theme of 'Beauty and the Beast' is don't judge a book by its cover. Love what's inside. — Jay Ryan

A good picture book should have events that are visually arresting - the pictures should call attention to what is happening in the story. — Chris Van Allsburg

What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you? — Anais Nin

One of the joys of a really good book is that you're so into the world of the book, you forget what you're looking at is words on a page. — Rick Yancey

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it. — Michael Lewis

Every play I do, every book I write, every painting I paint, I will struggle with. I don't know what it's like for a project to come easy. — Antony Sher

I sometimes think that what I do as a writer is make a kind of colouring book, where all the lines are there, and then you put in the colour. — John Irving

If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for. — Franz Kafka

Hope lies in what the book title says, finding love and community. — Hazel Rochman

Advice is autobiography. — J.R. Rim

Once, in London, the BBC asked me what was my favorite English book. I said Alice in Wonderland. — Gyorgy Ligeti

I am too old to have ever been very worried about what "genre" any given book of mine might be. I read everything. I am easily amused. — Margaret Atwood

I read books that say if you want to keep sex hot you tell a person what you want. How do you tell 'em you want somebody else? — Elayne Boosler

What you read when you don't have to ... — Oscar Wilde

Read first the best books. The important thing for you is not how much you know, but the quality of what you know. — Desiderius Erasmus

this book, giving voice to what is so basic among men and women throughout history, I have translated it "the Quester."] — Eugene H. Peterson

Writing this book is not just me encouraging others to lean in. This is me leaning in. Writing this book is what I would do if I weren't afraid. — Sheryl Sandberg

Let us secure not such books as people want, but books just above their wants, and they will reach up to take what is put out for them. — Maria Mitchell

Comic books were telling me what life was about. This was how I kind of entered life, through fiction. — Walter Mosley

When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.' — Sharon Draper

What kind of thoughtless creep would burn a book? — James Patterson

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me. — Jules Shear

Over the years, people I've met have often asked me what I'm working on, and I've usually replied that the main thing was a book about Dresden. — Kurt Vonnegut

We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world. — Judith Butler

What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence? — Kathy L. Patrick

What he's done is recognise the cinematic nature of the book. It's beautifully realised - it's a beat film. — Tilda Swinton

I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea. — Barack Obama

Think of this as a short book composed entirely of what I hoped would be a long book's quotable passages. — Sarah Manguso

Structure your thought pattern to what you want to achieve and who you want to become. — Jaachynma N.E. Agu

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

Something is very wrong. What began as a passing fascination with the book has turned into something darker, — Erika Swyler

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present. — John Kuypers

So I thought I should write five pages a day. And that's what I did. Eventually I had a book. — Don Winslow

Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written. — Paulo Coelho

When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read. — John Philip Kemble

Do you know what the best and worst thing about a book is? The author can't answer all your questions, only your imagination can. — S.A. Tawks

No one is capable of loving you like you can love you. Embrace your uniqueness; your uniqueness is what makes you special and great. — Shay Dawkins

You don't know when you are immersed in a book what the reaction to it will be, but I feel great about 'The Lake of Dreams.' — Kim Edwards

One must become a book before one can know what is inside it. — Don DeLillo

All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it. — M.J. Rose

What is all this love for if we have to go out into the dark? — M.R. James

The villagers marked the time in two ways: before the swamp and after. What came before was good. And all that came after was not. — Melanie Crowder

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

I remember the first book I bought, when I was about 11 ... Dad said, 'What have you got that for? What are libraries for?' — Kenneth Branagh

There are always challenges with books , deciding what to include and what to omit. — Patricia Leavy

the end of the book isn't the last page, it's the last day you think about what you read — Dave Campbell

The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema, so the movie has to successfully translate what was in the book. — Yann Martel

You know what writers say about their long books: If I had another year, the book would be half as long. — David Remnick

One day I was talking about what I was going to do next, and just found myself announcing it: 'I'm going to write a book about my father.' — John Burnside

What sort of a book would you like to read next? she asked. — Roald Dahl

What makes us human is not only the fact that we suffer, but also because we aspire to be happy." - Ashutosh in the Book "Songs of the Mist — Shashi

What the hell? We're all screwed up some way. At least you bathe and I don't have to fight you for chicks. In my book, that makes you all right. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else. — Erica Bauermeister

Parenting has no guide book; we come to it with what came at us. It's only the conscious mind that can shift the paradigm. — Katey Sagal

The reason why borrowed books are seldom returned, is that it is easier to retain books themselves than what is inside of them. — Gilles Menage

That doesn't sound very reliable to me," said the druid nastily. "How can a book know what day it is? Paper can't count. — Terry Pratchett

Not matter what your sacred or religious book is, it's not how well you know the book, it's how well you're in alignment with the author. — Steve Maraboli

Writing a book without promoting it is like waving to someone in a dark room. You know what have you done but nobody else does."
~Madi Preda — Madi Preda

The Endgame book was an American soup, if everything can be predicted what's the purpose to read it? — Deyth Banger

She's been reading too much, he thought -had drifted across that line that separated what you might find in a book from what you might do — Chad Harbach

What a writer brought to a book didn't matter as much as what the reader contributed. — Lisa Morton

In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do in mine. — Stieg Larsson

When you write the first book of a series, you do have to be careful what you put in because then you are stuck with it. — Martha Grimes

What worthwhile book after the Pentateuch has been written by a committee? — George Steiner

I don't want no better book than what your face is. — Mark Twain

Past is like a histroy book were we can learn what weve done in it. — Skyla

Especially those first few years of my comic book career, I had no idea what was going to happen the next day. — Jason Aaron

I see life as a challenge but success is what you make of it. — Clifton Cameron

You said in your book that at the end of the day, every politician is human. What about during the day? — Stephen Colbert

When I read a daring book or listen to rebellious music, I feel like I've found what freedom really means. — Carla H. Krueger

CUSTOMER:Will you be open so I can buy the new Harry Potter book?
BOOKSELLER: Yep, we're having a midnight opening.
CUSTOMER: Great! What time? — Jen Campbell

What you don't know would make a great book. — Sydney Smith

The thing I can't remember is, what came first? Us or the book? — Michael De Luca

It's easy to write a sentence, paragraph, or book. What's difficult is writing the best sentence, paragraph, or book you can write. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

My new book is going well. It's practically writing itself! Actually, what I mean is I'm not writing it, my clone is. — Jarod Kintz

Bread and books: food for the body and food for the soul - what could be more worthy of our respect, and even love? — Salman Rushdie

What I learned is that it's arrogant to be certain of anything. The world is a complex place and only idiots or assholes think they know it all. — Lisa Gardner

What is the silence of six and what are you going to do about? — E.C. Myers

And what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversation? — Lewis Carroll

The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know. — Timothy Keller

Even the enemy needs permission from God to do what he wants with you. — Joyce Rachelle

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer. — Anthony Kiedis

And what new life can emerge from a book. Any book, maybe. — Gregory Maguire

When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man. — William S. Burroughs

What I find is most people have a civics book understanding for how Congress works and how a bill moves. — Sam Brownback

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote. — Philip Dormer Stanhope

Extremists have shown what frightens them most. A girl with a book. — Malala Yousafzai

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? — Cesar Chavez

What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead. — Fanny Fern

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one. — Jonathan Carroll

Quoting her mother: The trouble with a book is you never know what's in it until it's too late! — Jeanette Winterson

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