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Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.
I like to be with my friends and my family, listen to music and read books. Things like that relax me.
One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
If the government ever imposes a tax on books - and I wouldn't put it past them - I'm in dead trouble.
Pet Sematary' is one of my favorite books of Stephen King and I have a deep love relationship with it.
There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
All I do is read books, really. I worry about that sometimes. I don't seem to have a hobby or anything.
I think picture books should stretch children. I think they should be full of wonderful, amazing words.
I read the three 'Hunger Games' books in a week and because I liked them so much I wrote 'Just a Game.'
Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.
I'm a big believer in bibliotherapy. Books have the power to change lives: what we think and what we do.
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense.
Have you ever heard the expression: Walk a mile in my shoes, and then judge me? And write your own books.
I wasn't smart enough to read relationship books when I was coming up. I learned everything the hard way.
During long car rides to the set, after I study my script, I go onto my iPad to read books and play games.
If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.
'Misty of Chincoteague', 'The Black Stallion', the 'Saddle Club' books, I read 'em all. I was horse-crazy.
I always say it's a shame picture books get such a bad rep. Illustrations are tough to sell older kids on!
I have a shelf of comfort books, which I read when the world closes in on me or something untoward happens.
I take six or seven years to write really small books. There is a kind of aesthetic of leanness, of brevity.
The problem is that my generation was pacified into believing that racism existed only in our history books.
My night stand is more like a geological structure: a bunch of books piled on the floor with its own strata.
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.
The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify.
Most of my books have always worked through juxtaposition, jumping through different point of views and time.
One of the most memorable things I hear is when someone tells me that my books got a reluctant reader to read.
People always ask, 'How do you write so many books?' And I say, I work a lot. I work six or seven days a week.
Belief in great results is the driving force, the power behind all great books, plays, scientific discoveries.
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
I like to read a lot of books and poems. Even though poems are short, I enjoy the emotions that come with them.
I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.
I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels.
At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.