Books Quotes
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I haven't always felt it was okay to read romance novels. When I was younger, it embarrassed me to be seen with my books, but I've come out of the closet.
Karen Robards -
What people tell me they take away from my books is that they can shape their lives, they can achieve their own dreams. And certainly that's what I want them to take away.
Tamora Pierce
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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
Amy Lowell -
My books are never about the crimes. They are about how the characters react to the crimes.
Karin Slaughter -
The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
Chuck Klosterman -
I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
Patrick deWitt -
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
George Eliot -
I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
Frances McDormand
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Books are my weakness.
Dan Stevens -
Libraries are the future of reading. When the economy is down, we need to make it easier for people to buy and read books for free, not harder. It is stupid to sacrifice tomorrow’s book buyers for today’s dollars, especially when it’s obvious that the source in question doesn’t have any more dollars to give you.
Courtney Milan -
Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
Oriana Fallaci -
I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
Harmony Korine -
Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
Victoria Justice
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I never had money for anything. But I tell you what did really work - books. Between the covers of those books I could go anyplace, I could be anybody, I could do anything.
Benjamin Carson -
All I have learned, I learned from books.
Abraham Lincoln -
Books are the windows through which the soul looks out.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Any writer who gives a reader a pleasurable experience is doing every other writer a favor because it will make the reader want to read other books. I am all for it.
S. E. Hinton -
Whether I'm critically well received, whether or not I sell books - of course it becomes progressively harder to get them published - nevertheless, it's what I do, every day.
Tama Janowitz -
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Zadie Smith
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My wife and I love to read. We're going to have to move out to make room for the books! And we have our dogs.
Gale Gordon -
The wise are above books.
Samuel Daniel -
I've always loved books by the Bronte sisters. I love Jane Austen, too. I'm more influenced by people like her than by pop culture.
Laura Marling -
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot