Books Quotes
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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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.
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I love reading books that can break my heart.
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You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I keep my books in them.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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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.
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I get inspiration from literally everything and anything. I take inspiration from people, relationships, stories, and I take inspiration from movies I see, books I read and songs I hear.
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I write books that way - I put a first line down and say, "Where does this go?"
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But stamped on her face was also regret that she had been wrong in her assessment. In those weeks she felt humiliated at having always ascribed a power to things that in the current hierarchies were insignificant: the alphabet, writing, books. Only then—I think today—did she, who seemed so disillusioned, so adult, come to the end of her childhood.
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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
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I often reread books I have written.
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There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.
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I think a lot of people want me to be like the characters in the books: they want that kind of congruence.
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I've seen a lot of people buy my books and then fall asleep on the plane soon afterwards.
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I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.
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The magical and fantastical isn't something I'm uncomfortable with in books, and I chafe slightly at the idea that a purely realist novel somehow has more value.
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The oldest books are only just out to those who have not read them.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
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It was a bit unimaginable when I began that I'd ever get to 25 books. But it was also unimaginable how much crime-writing would have changed.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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We never tire of the friendships we form with books.
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Home to me is the world because my books have been translated into more than 30 languages.
