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I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar
I read two to three books a day anyway (I only sleep about two hours a night, and I read really fast).
A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
Every five, six, seven, eight, 10 years I do a raisonné. When it's printed in the book, it's finished.
I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
I grew up in a house without many books. The books the nuns made us read in school didn't interest me.
Librarians in America do something like a couple of billion dollars worth of book business every year.
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.
Don't tell me what's in the Red Book. I wrote the goddamned thing. And I know that it's a lot of crap.
The music I listen, the book I read, and the people I meet; these are some things that keeps me going.
George Bush says, 'Gore's book needs a lot of explaining.' Of course, Bush says that about every book.
Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading
He [Pliny the Elder] used to say that 'no book [etc] was so bad but some good might be got out of it'.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors.
I have always loved books, and as a mother, I wanted to share my passion for reading with my children.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
In the last 1,000 years, the Arabs have translated as many books as Spain translates in just one year.
Books are the best friends you can have; they inform you, and entertain you, and they don't talk back.
I don't read books on how to write screenplays just because I'm stubborn. So it's all sort of made up.
Being an actor, you are recognized for being somebody else, whereas these books are distilled from me.
Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.
The only two kinds of books could earn an American writer a living are cookbooks and detective novels.
If the college you visit has a bookstore filled with t-shirts rather than books, find another college.
I'm a quiet person's nightmare - the only time I shut up is when I'm reading, because I'm a book geek.
He could have made it right with the book. But he hasn't. He is a revisionist of history. He has lied.
Those smutty books sell because women wish their husbands had half the balls the men in those books do.
To seek Divinity merely in books is to seek the living among the dead... seek God within your own soul.
It's against my principles to buy a book I haven't read, it's like buying a dress you haven't tried on.
I remember the first time I held my book, my first book in my hands. I cannot tell you how it moved me.
As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book."
Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness.
I don't think anyone will believe me, but I've never been pressured by a publisher to churn out a book.
To me film school was film history because there weren't a lot of books out there that I had access to.
You know I'm finished with the old chess because it's all just a lot of book and memorization you know.
In the main, there are two sorts of books: those that no one reads and those that no one ought to read.
I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.
What is more important in a library than anything else-than everything else-is the fact that it exists.
I think I'm probably quite geeky in a lot of ways. I'm pretty into books, kind of obsessive about that.
Sometimes I wish I were a character in a book and there was a writer out there giving me things to say.
If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it.
No one ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have tried while trying to write one.
To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.
I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.
Capitalism has been really good to me. I'm very fortunate: I have written books and my books have sold.
If people don't read, that's their choice; a lifelong book habit may itself be some sort of affliction.
By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him.
You cannot be afraid, Read the book. Smile at it. It's a great book-the greatest book you've ever read.
I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.