Books Quotes
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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.
Sabrina Carpenter -
I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.
Wendell H. Ford
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I left Beijing in 1987, shortly before my books were banned there, but have returned continually.
Ma Jian -
I know all the books of the Bible.
Hailey Bieber -
A lot of times, when I go back to books I loved when I was young, I don't quite understand what it was that I loved about them. Rereading 'The Secret Garden,' I felt a lot like Mary feels when she visits her garden.
Ellen Potter -
With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
M. J. Rose -
No, I don't autograph blank slips, checks, or stickers, and certainly no books without me in them.
Jack L. Chalker -
I've got a nice car. I love my job. I've got a bagel store, and I have breakfast every morning with friends I grew up with. I've been in movies, I've written books - I don't know how that all happened.
Larry King
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I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to always feel you never have enough, or the right one at the right moment, but then sometimes to find you'd longed to fall asleep reading the Aspern Papers, and there it is.
Louise Erdrich -
One should write only those books from whose absence one suffers. In short: the ones you want on your own desk.
Marina Tsvetaeva -
I read whatever is put in front of me. I gobble up books.
Kara Hayward -
Burn old wood, read old books, drink old wines, have old friends.
Alfonso X of Castile -
While most people had moved on from children's books, Jake still loved them. They felt cozy like hot chocolate with mini marshmallows or a new jumbo box of Crayola crayons.
Carolyn Mackler -
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Samuel Johnson
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Remember picture books are the closest form of writing to a poem. Even though they don't have to rhyme, they must be poetic. They must be written so the worst actress can read with comfort and expression.
Kirby Larson -
Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
Pat Brown -
I love coloring books. I keep some by my bed.
Karen Black -
I love books about treks and journeys into the unknown.
Pat Conroy -
The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
J. I. Packer -
I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
Jackie Collins
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There is a magic in some books / That sucks a man into connections / With the spirits hard to touch / That join him to his kind.
Roger Waters Pink Floyd -
Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.
Albert Einstein -
Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.
V. S. Naipaul -
The real bombs are my books, not me.
Carlos Fuentes