Books Quotes
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Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn’t catch their eye they won’t bother to read what’s inside.
Marilyn Monroe
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I am a bit of a Cheap Pete, but I do spend a fortune on books and false moustaches and practical jokes.
Karen Duffy
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I am trying to concentrate on books. You know, I love Dostoevsky; he's my favourite writer.
Irina Shayk
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My books are about ordinary people caught up in extraordinary situations.
Karen Robards
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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
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
Joanne Rowling
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I read in a weird way. It comes in waves, and then I start, like, five different books at once. It takes me six months to a year to finish them all, since I read mostly on planes.
Barry McGee
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Travel teaches as much as books.
Youssou N'Dour
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I'm a huge fan of e-books, but the more I buy and download, the more I worry that someone could just take them all away from me.
Warren Spector
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He was going through one of those moments that you read about in books, when a character reacts in an unexpectedly extreme way to the normal discontents of living.
Elena Ferrante
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I don't read a lot of books.
Usain Bolt
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I buy way too many books.
Orson Scott Card
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
Taran Killam
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All my books are optimistic!
Malcolm Gladwell
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America is full of readers of all different sorts who love books in many different ways, and I keep meeting them. And I think editors should look after them, and make less effort to please people who don't actually like books.
A. S. Byatt
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A collection of books is the best of all universities.
Thomas Carlyle
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When you count all the obscure monographic books, there have been many. I probably have most of them in my library.
Iris Chang
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There's detailed information on how to assemble a nuclear weapon from parts. There's books about how to build a nuclear bomb.
Irwin Redlener
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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
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It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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As an author of narrative history, I read a lot of history books.
Nathaniel Philbrick
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I'm always surprised when large numbers of people buy my books.
Patricia Cornwell
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With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?
Oscar Wilde
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
Gail Porter