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Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.
It's so much better to hand over a finished book than having all these people waiting.
I have always read all the latest cookery books and magazines, from all over the world
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.
You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre.
At the time I did not know that stories of life are often more like rivers than books.
It does not matter how many books you have, but how good the books are which you have.
I write books to relieve myself of pain. That's the prime motivator to write. Period.
The book thief has struck for the first time – the beginning of an illustrious career.
The images from the book you make in your head are always going to be the best images.
What better way to get to know someone than through her choice and treatment of books?
Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.
The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.
I gave myself two months to book a job. One month later I was cast on 'Modern Family.'
The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.
...a book need never die and should not be killed; books were the immortal part of man.
It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.
There is no other book so various as the Bible, nor one so full of concentrated wisdom.
It's rare that I read more than two or three books by any one author, usually only one.
I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like the book.
Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.
The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.
Who said time machines haven't been built yet? They already exist. They're called books
We do not so much want books for good people, as books which will make bad ones better.
I began writing seriously in my mid-20s and didnt publish my first book until I was 41.
That was only the beginning - where one burns books, one will finally also burn people.
Most writers write books that they wouldn't read. I ought to know; I've done it myself.
A single line in the Bible has consoled me more than all the books I ever read besides.
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
Elton John's home is laden with trinkets and books relating to Satanism and witchcraft.
Books, I found, had the power to make time stand still, retreat or fly into the future.
You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.
opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
I actually wrote my first zombie book way before I got the job on 'Saturday Night Live.
The greatest threat to extremism isn't drones firing missiles, but girls reading books.
My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
Besides, most of the books I like involve people I could never play in a million years.
I'm passionate about color. My best friend and I sit and look at Pantone books for fun.
Getting an idea for a book is not the problem, but you need 300 ideas - an idea a page.
A great thing is a great book; but a greater thing than all is the talk of a great man.
Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
I'm so bored of all these girls who have written about 20 books by the time they're 25.
With the story of your life, you dont get to write the whole book, just your character.
I thought my book was done, then we went to Hawaii and the whole last chapter happened.
I don't care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.
I think my great book is Born to Sing: An Interpretation and World Survey of Bird Song.
I cannot imagine life without books any more than I can imagine life without breathing.