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But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me.
Her home is the burrow of a bibliophile hobbit -- low-ceilinged, close-walled, and brimming over with books.
I was passionate about reading from an early age, and I would always be carrying a different book each week.
When I finished the book [The Dissemblers], I sent it to one billion agents, and got one billion rejections.
We wanted the book [Paper Girls] to feel to evoke the '80s, but not necessarily feel that it was drawn then.
I have read some great books recently: "Heaven is For Real," "Bud Not Buddy," and my favorite, "Tiger Eyes."
I have studied this Book, and I would never even dream of saying I've come to the bottom of the Word of God.
There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.
Book - Learning : The dunce's derisive term for all knowledge that transcends his own impertinent ignorance.
The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.
The Age of Reason was responsible for making more people into infidels than any other book except the Bible.
Anyone unable to understand how useful religion can be founded on lies will not understand this book either.
'Sag Harbor' was a very different book for me. It changed the way I thought about books that I wanted to do.
The trouble with the publishing business is that too many people who have half a mind to write a book do so.
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended.
Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see.
My wife and I love to read. Were going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose... anything goes.
It may not be written in any book, but it is written - You can't go back, you can't repeat the unrepeatable.
I cannot live without books: but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.
I jerk off inside books, and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you've probably never heard
When all lies, deceit, pretense is stripped away, what remains? The truth of a painting, or a book or a man.
My grief is that the publishing world, the book writing world is an extraordinary shoddy, dirty, dingy world.
Aquinas was once asked, with what compendium a man might become learned? He answered "By reading of one book.
I have to admit that I am really partial to the look and feel of a book. I have been that way my entire life.
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia".
It is not the reading of many books which is necessary to make a man wise or good; but well reading of a few.
It is a miracle how God has so long preserved His Book! How great and glorious it is to have the Word of God!
Let us be very careful that we never exalt any minister, or sermon, or book, or friend above the Word of God.
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
Books can change your life. Some of the most influential people in our lives are characters we meet in books.
I've written some standalone novels, but a book series allows fans in. There's much more intense involvement.
If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.
My books are my tools, and the greater their variety and perfection the greater the help to my literary work.
Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now.
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
I only read what I am hungry for at the moment when I have an appetite for it, and then I do not read, I eat.
My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.
Books have always been important to me - my mom was a first grade teacher, so I grew up reading all the time.
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen.
There comes a point when you can more or less count the number of books you're going to write before you die.
I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history.
I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.
The book of Revelation says that we no longer need the sun or the moon, for Christ is the light of the world.
If you take a really good book, then the potential is for a really good film. But you've got to get it right.
I love to read, and I don't believe that you have to finish one book before you start another. --Mallory Pike
Each book is, in a sense, an argument with myself, and I would write it, whether it is ever published or not.