It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.
Carolyn Wells
LibraryInterestBooksTakesMakes
Mommy and Daddy both had jobs when I was a kid, so, like a lot of people my age, TV became Mommy and books became Daddy.
Christopher McCulloch
AgePeopleKidDaddyBooksLike
Many books have changed my life, but only one has the word 'life-changing' in the title: Marie Kondo's 'The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying.'
Elif Batuman
LifeMy LifeMagicBooksChanged
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
Fran Tarkenton
BestNew YorkNewMagazineBooks
I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.
Steven Wright
ChildrenPurposeBooksFewWrote
Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.
Mark Twain
LifeGoodFriendsGood FriendsBooks
I love to decorate a room - from the furniture to the objects to the books.
Aerin Lauder
LoveFurnitureRoomBooksObjects
Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.
Colleen Atwood
ArtPeopleMeProcessStreetBooks
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art.
Dave Hickey
ArtHatePoliticalBooksCrap
The real bombs are my books, not me.
Carlos Fuentes
MeRealBooksBombs
Most history books are about power.
Simon Sebag Montefiore
PowerHistoryBooksMostAbout
The animated books pay the lowest rates at the Big Two and you can forget about royalties.
Mark Millar
YouForgetTwoPayBigBooks
I think books that are meant to be read in the nighttime ought to confront the very fears that we're trying to think about.
Daniel Handler
ThinkTryingMeant To BeBooksRead
There are plenty of paths to becoming a writer, but I think the most reliable ones involve total commitment: writing for magazines and newspapers, teaching writing, editing books, representing authors.
Chris Pavone
CommitmentWritingThinkPathsBooks
I just write the books that I think I would want to read.
Curtis Sittenfeld
ThinkWantWriteJustBooksWould
When I was a child - in wartime, pre-television - books were my life.
A. S. Byatt
LifeChildMy LifeBooksWartime
Balancing an illustrator and author can be tricky, but I was an illustrator mostly before I wrote my books.
Tony DiTerlizzi
BooksBalancingTrickyBeforeWrote
Most books are three-thirds rubbish.
Lionel Shriver
BooksRubbishMost
As long as I have books and DVDs, I don't miss much.
Elfriede Jelinek
LongMissBooksMuchDVDs
I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.
Colin Wilson
HardAlwaysOverPrettyBeenBooks
He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb Colton
EducationAloneMenKnowWillBooks
Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.
Ed Emberley
MeWayEveryoneBooksWhoLike
I tried to reject everything I knew as a TV writer when I decided to be a novelist, and the books didn't work. Finally I realized I should go back to all the techniques I'd learned.
Robert Crais
WorkBackGoEverythingBooksTried
What a word is truth. Slippery, tricky, unreliable. I tried in these books to tell the truth.
Lillian Hellman
TruthTellBooksSlipperyTried
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