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I really wouldn't classify the books as mysteries. I prefer to say that they're adventures.
In the case of The Loved One, I was hired to collaborate on an updated version of the book.
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while.
I don't know how many good books I still have in me; I hope there are another four or five.
When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls.
To foretell the destiny of a nation, it is necessary to open a book that tells of her past.
Every person is born into life as a blank page and every person leaves life as a full book.
music, drawing, books, invention & exercise will be so many resources to you against ennui.
I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book.
Every book is, in an intimate sense, a circular-letter to the friends of him who writes it.
In the middle of the silence in a writer's house lies an invalid: the book being worked on.
May God strike me down with a hammer on the head before I write a book with a teach-y goal!
The outline is 95 percent of the book. Then I sit down and write, and that's the easy part.
I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
I do other sorts of things. I act in other people's movies. I direct operas. I write books.
My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some books, I live without envy.
I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.
I'm probably the only bestselling author you know who's written more books than she's read.
Books that are books are all that you want, and there are but a half dozen in any thousand.
I believe that kids as well as adults are entitled to books of no socially redeeming value.
No agent wants to see a book until he or she has decided whether to pursue the relationship
When you start at catering college, nobody prepares you for a book tour or public speaking.
I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.
When I think of all the books still left for me to read, I am certain of further happiness.
But how do I get to having to write a book?... It was a mother who bore me, not an inkwell!
Every book teaches a lesson, even if the lesson is only that one has chosen the wrong book.
A book? O, rare one, Be not, as is our fangled world, a garment Nobler than that it covers.
The bookis a distant relative of the truth, and the film is a distant relative of the book.
I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.
We want to raise a generation of kids who have a mouse in one hand and a book in the other.
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.
The most important part of a story is the ending. No one reads a book to get to the middle.
If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.
Temeraire said, 'It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!
Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends.
Education begins by teaching children to read and ends by making most of them hate reading.
I wrote a book on life coaching, because my life became my own reference point how to live.
It is true, that it is not at all necessary to love many books, in order to love them much.
The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
The children's book world has given me wonderful friendships and an unbelievably rich life.
A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships
Community college is like a disco with books: "Here's ten dollars; let me get my learn on!"
I want to write the sort the book that my people want to read, even if the market is small.
You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.
In the real world as in dreams nothing is quite what it seems. -The Book of Counted Sorrows
There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.
How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.