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Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say. Of course those who write short books have even less to say.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Memorizing, guessing, looking at pictures, predicting, substituting, and skipping, are not reading; they are very bad habits.
In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.
Finishing books - and leaving the world you've created - is always a kind of emotionally wrenching experience. I usually cry.
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
In general, my own experience of writing an adaptation of 'Evening' gave me a chance to get into different parts of the book.
Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.
I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.
If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them.
Frankly, I'd rather make a little bit less money if it means living in a better world for books and publishing in the future.
The two things I enjoy the most about writing are the first page of a book and the last. What's in between is very hard work.
I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four.
I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.
This helpful book on the role of the arts fills a significant gap in the growing literature on holistic faith-based programs.
The small visual inconvenience of e-books is made up for with find and search functions, and the fungibility of digital text.
I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and write books about them.
I've always wanted to write a song that goes, "I love you" and a book that goes, "Something happened." Something very direct.
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.
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.
I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must be retarded.
How strange to read of a place in a book, and then stand on it, listen to the birds sing, and spit on the cobbles if you want.
Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?
There is no remedy so easy as books, which if they do not give cheerfulness, at least restore quiet to the most troubled mind.
There are plenty of laws to protect guys' money even in war time but there's nothing on the books says a man's life's his own.
A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like rings on a tree.
We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling some books.
Just the whole concept of burlesque, I've always been fascinated with it. I've always collected so many books about burlesque.
Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the frying pan of irrationality!
Occasionally, the book tells stories that would likely grate on senior management – but that is what free speech is all about.
We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.
I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters.
Judicious mothers will always keep in mind that they are the first book read, and the last put aside, in every childs library.
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?
I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
Never mind, put any book on the piano, and someone can turn from time to time, so I need not look as though I played by heart.
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
I think shorter books are going to become more and more of the trend. So I don't think you have to write big, big, long books.
After the children grew up, I began to focus on my writing. My first books were part of a trilogy... The 'Wind Dance' trilogy.
Vegan With A Vengeance is on my kitchen shelf. This fun and creative book is delicious for people like me, who don’t eat pets.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
The genius of the Platonists, is intoxicating to the student, yet how few particulars of it can I detach from all their books.
If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the great majority.
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the opera - or an NHL game.
Few books are more thrilling than certain confessions, but they must be honest, and the author must have something to confess.