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Characters are the key to a good book. It took me several novels to comprehend that.
I'm just the librarian. I can only give you the books. I can't give you the answers.
When writers die they become books, which is, after all, not too bad an incarnation.
O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.
Be lord of a day, through wisdom and justice, and you can put up your history books.
If a man could give birth it would be to a book - it's an 18-month gestation period.
I don't get my inspiration from books or a painting. I get it from the women I meet.
He was taking 30 seconds to book a player. He was needing a rest. It was ridiculous.
It is always wonderful to be a curious comet wandering in the galaxy of a good book.
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time.
Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
The lives great artists live and the books they write are two very different things.
I have left my book, I have left my room, For I heard you singing Through the gloom.
I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women.
I'm not 'Mr. No-By-The-Book.' I just want to make sure the character is by the book.
One of the joys of reading is the ability to plug into the shared wisdom of mankind.
It may take a village to raise a baby, but hell! it takes an army to produce a book.
I always try to create conflict and drama in my books; it's the engine of the novel.
I never read gossip press. I just read books. And I never switch on the TV any more.
Books are better than movies because you design the set the way you want it to look.
Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.
What better portrait of a writer than to show a man who has been bewitched by books?
It was just an idea I had, that it could be cool to have a book covered in fake fur.
Books cannot always please, however good; Minds are not ever craving for their food.
If I book a hotel it's actually very funny. It's very nice to be a genuine Mr Smith.
I do know that the best way to make a mediocre movie is to just transcribe the book.
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.
Homework, I have discovered, involves a sharp pencil and thick books and long sighs.
The writer, an old man with a white moustache, had some difficulty getting into bed.
Friendship with the wise gets better with time, as a good book gets better with age.
My favorite book is my next one. I’m always hoping to make my next book my best one.
I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.
Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.
My post-child period resulted in one instant change: I write shorter books for kids.
I think everybody's book is about somebody's daughter, in a lot of ways. I dig that.
Adapting a book is essentially a collaboration, whether the author is alive or dead.
If we have to sum up the Book of Revelation in one phrase, it would be, 'Jesus wins.
Publishing a book is like stuffing a note into a bottle and hurling it into the sea.
I read daft history books. Sometimes the books I read are a bit crackers or strange.
People - me included - want to get excited about books. Good books are a good thing.
A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.
Only picture to yourself a nice soft wife on a sofa with good fire, & books & music.
We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.
Like most uneducated Englishwomen, I like reading--I like reading books in the bulk.
Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?
But if you have a book that needs urgent reading,' she said, 'then Hakim is your man.
I wanted to write honest books for kids because I didn't have those when I was a kid.
My ultimate goal is to drive people back to the books, when I think of an adaptation.
Just because people starve in a book, doesn't mean that we will starve in the future.
A book, unlike any other friend, will wait, not only upon the hour but upon the mood.