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I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.
The overwhelmingly successful trial book of my early adolescence had been To Kill A Mocking Bird.
I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own.
Each of them is a book through which other books dream. (referring to Nodier's SMARRA and TRILBY)
If my books can help children become readers then I feel I have accomplished something important.
What more powerful form of study of mankind could there be than to read our own instruction book?
Miracles is the sort of book that once you've read it you'll wonder where it's been all your life
A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.
I don't want anyone reading my writing to think about style. I just want them to be in the story.
I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.
Leuconoe, close the book of fate, For troubles are in store, . . . . Live today, tomorrow is not.
You can read me like a book. If I'm not having a good time, which is very rare, then you'll know.
My mom loved the book [My beloved world] and she said to me, 'I never knew you had done so much.'
After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.
I never know if a book is crazy or not. There's that fear - this is the one that will end it all.
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working.
In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.
His books are exciting and powerful and — if I may filch the word from the booksy ones — pulsing.
Nay, what is worse, perhaps turn poet, which, they say, is an infectious and incurable distemper.
From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.
Do not just seek happiness for yourself. Seek happiness for all. Through kindness. Through mercy.
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
To me a book is a message from the gods to mankind; or, if not, should never be published at all.
You either ignore the comic book and make a great movie or you stay very close to the comic book.
My first book, 'The Age of Wire and String,' came out in 1995, and it was hardly reviewed at all.
Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.
I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.
I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard.
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.
One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.
I finished a big book the other day. 421 pages. That's a lot of coloring when you think about it.
We live in an age of rapid mass media, television, Internet. They determine our tempo, not books.
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
There are other options out there, after all, like read a book, go on the Internet, rent a movie.
We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.
Oh yeah, 100%, I've been an open book. Even my whole career, I've kind of been like an open book.
Book of Ecclesiastes, God is saying... Write a good story, take somebody with you and let me help
The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.
Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.
Open the book to page ninety-nine and read, and the quality of the whole will be revealed to you.
I don't love reading so much, but I love book shopping. It's just because I don't have much time.
I am 82 years old. I imagine that I will keep on writing as long as anyone wants to keep reading.
The Way of the Sufis cannot be understood by means of the intellect or by ordinary book learning.
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.
A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?