Books Quotes
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First and foremost, I'm a decorator and product designer. Everything I do, the television shows, the books, that comes from the design work. It's what I love.
Nate Berkus -
When I got to the library I came to a standstill, - ah, the dear room, what happy times I have spent in it rummaging amongst the books, making plans for my garden, building castles in the air, writing, dreaming, doing nothing.
Elizabeth von Arnim
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
Florentijn Hofman -
Books are humanity in print.
Barbara Tuchman -
The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
Samuel Butler -
I don't read a lot of books.
Usain Bolt -
Obviously people read the books in order to be entertained.
Patricia Cornwell -
I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
Samantha Shannon
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
Rachel Kushner -
Books on horse racing subjects have never done well, and I am told that publishers had come to think of them as the literary version of box office poison.
Laura Hillenbrand -
I'm a collecting maniac and I buy a lot of books and records. I have over thousand cds.
Ville Valo HIM -
Serial killers are everywhere! Well, perhaps not in our neighborhood, but on our television screens, at the movie theatres, and in rows and rows of books at our local Borders or Barnes and Noble Booksellers.
Pat Brown -
Books are still my favorite present.
Karen Robards -
My books are based 98 percent on documentary evidence.
Irving Stone
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While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.
Rick Perlstein -
I often reread books I have written.
Taylor Caldwell -
I don't write books inadvertently.
A. N. Wilson -
Whenever I'm giving talks, I always ask people to think of the most obscure questions because I enjoy those the most. I always get the same questions: Why does Pickwick say "plock" and will there be a movie? I like the really obscure questions because there's so much in the books. There are tons and tons of references and I like when people get the little ones and ask me about them. It's good for the audience [and also] they realize there's more there.
Jasper Fforde -
I read books. Remember those? I read them, on paper.
Frances McDormand -
I still buy actual books. The smell, having it in your hands - there's really no substitute.
Nathan Fillion
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I will say I am the sum of my books.
V. S. Naipaul -
Travel teaches as much as books.
Youssou N'Dour -
I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
P. C. Cast -
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.
Van Wyck Brooks