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It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were my books.
It's good to try stuff. I wrote a book that I threw away, and I think I just wrote it so I could try stuff in it and not be scared
Naturally, I mine my girlfriends lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
The only parts I like out of any of those women books is the dirty parts. But I don't think their dirty parts are any good, really.
Reminds me of my safari in Africa. Somebody forgot the corkscrew and for several days we had to live on nothing but food and water.
I think I write in order to discover on my shelf a new book that I would enjoy reading, or to see a new play that would engross me.
The Long Goodbye' is one book I like to read over and over again, and it was an enormous inspiration for 'All The Wrong Questions'.
Shakespeare was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of the books to read nature; he looked inward, and found her there.
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
Easy to read, yet filled with wisdom that will penetrate your heart, this book puts the power back in your hands. It’s a must have.
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets.
Every libromancer had a first book. Etched more sharply into my memory than my first kiss, this book had been my magical awakening.
I read more books for research purposes, whether its a fictionalized biography of Johannes Gutenberg or a stack of urban fantasies.
So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.
If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I was accomplishing something creative.
If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free
But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.
... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them. (Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)
I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and I'd keep my job.
In books there's nothing of the fish covered in the coldness of the sea, or the feeling of a star touching space. Bad for business.
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out.
Book sense makes sense because someone has gone through it before and able to share it with you. Your job is to listen and discern.
The idea of being productive, the idea of producing many books is going to lead you toward you becoming a better and better writer.
Granddad was superstitious about books. He thought that if you had enough of them around, education leaked out, like radioactivity.
I hope one day God will reveal all the truths to people that He has never sent any Holy Book, nor did He create anything but chaos!
I want to do something splendid… Something heroic or wonderful that won’t be forgotten after I’m dead… I think I shall write books.
I know that some people use lavender, incense, and cake as sedatives, but for me, a 'nose bath' in an old book just does something.
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know where I am."
I choose Hosea. Oh, there's no book of the Bible which more beautifully and more painfully demonstrates how very much God loves us.
I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money.
Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to survive.
When she came to write her story, she would wonder when the books and the words started to mean not just something, but everything.
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I cringe over.
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more.
I've nothing against kids reading anything they please, but I do have a problem with pink books for girls and black books for boys.
If I had to write a book, I could not find anything in the world worth saying - as is indeed the case with many voluminous authors.
Wait, Wikipedia isn't working? Why hasn't someone invented a paper version of it? A set of books organized alphabetically by topic?
Books had shown me, however, that all people everywhere wanted their lives to have purpose and meaning. This longing was universal.
My mother was an avid readerShe loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes
The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.
Books are easy to find and easy to buy. A paperback these days only costs six or seven dollars. You can borrow that from your kids!
I have high hopes of smashing my name into history so violently that it will take a legendary form even if all books are destroyed.
The truth is, I can’t read anything with any distance. Every book is a self-help book to me. Just having them makes me feel better.
When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.
Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books?