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How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived.
A house without books must be sad. Even sadder a house of books without people.
My books always begin with a sentence and an image - not necessarily connected.
The literature of disease is more interesting to me than all the healthy books.
To me one of the most important things is launching a children's book division.
I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.
A book should either allow us to escape existence or teach us how to endure it.
To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York.
What I really try to do is take different pages out of different players books.
Strange thoughts brew in your heart when you spend too much time with old books
It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
The modernness of all good books seems to give men an existence as wide as man.
A book is a wonderful present. Though it may grow worn, it will never grow old.
I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.
Language is what books do very well and movement is what movies does very well.
I just downloaded eleven hundred books onto my Kindle, and now I can’t lift it.
You learn more about life from watching 'Big Brother' than from reading a book.
I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.
I read books like mad, but I am careful to to let anything I read influence me.
She thought a writer should work harder writing a book than she did reading it.
I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
Only in books the flat and final happens, Only in dreams we meet and interlock.
Buying a book is not about obtaining a possession, but about securing a portal.
To those who ask if I have read their book, I reply: I have not yet read Homer.
A great novel is a kind of conversion experience. We come away from it changed.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.
As a child, I disliked books in which children learned to be 'better' children.
Is there any excitement to compare with the opening of a fresh parcel of books?
A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Most books and movies that are handed to teenagers are filled with stereotypes.
You have to be careful not to use anything too colloquial or you date the book.
He mocks proud mockers but gives grace to the humble. from the Book of Proverbs
Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.
The poet can only write the poems; it takes the reader to complete the meaning.
This is a short book because most books about writing are filled with bullshit.
Poetry makes its own pertinence, and a single stanza outweighs a book of prose.
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
It's a terrible thing for a book, when you feel like you're supposed to like it.
I sold a million books because I have a lot of fans, not because people hate me.
If my life has got a book, I will write a word 'Super Junior' the biggest in it.
It sucks to try and book a tour without the internet, and I'm not even doing it.
We had become those guys... who started a fight... at a Harry Potter book party.
He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.
I think I get some of my love of adult books that can be fun from Douglas Adams.
When I was in kindergarten, I entered a competition and read 52 books in a week.
The book trade invented literary prizes to stimulate sales, not to reward merit.
Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.