Books Quotes

Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?

Albert Einstein

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My thought has been shaped by books; my desires by pictures.

Mason Cooley

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I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Khaled Hosseini

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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.

Val McDermid

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As a writer of fiction, lying is the central thing to all books.

Jesse Ball

LyingFictionBooksWriterCentral

I don't hold with the notion that only bad books make good movies.

Anthony Minghella

GoodBadMoviesHoldOnlyBooks

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

Alan King

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The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

Mary Crosby

ManMeImportantAnimalsNeedBooks

It is true that it is usually for their books that novelists reserve their most considered and ordered thoughts, but the fact is they arise inescapably from one consciousness: the same one that is occupied in all the other activities which make up a life.

Justin Cartwright

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The image I had was that Oprah books were fluffy.

Tawni O'Dell

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The Booker Prize is a big, popular prize for big, popular books, and that's the way it should be.

John Banville

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Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000.

Anthony Burgess

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I mainly buy books in my free time.

Wesley Snipes

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All of my books tend to be about things going on in labs that you wouldn't really expect.

Mary Roach

YouThingsExpectGoingBooksAbout

Some of my own books are being developed - one as a Broadway musical.

Julie Andrews

My OwnOwnBroadwayBeingBooks

Comic books have a long, fraught history with sexism.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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I like to build places online where readers can have productive conversations about books.

John Green

BuildPlacesWhereProductiveBooks

Hamid Gul is an actor who is definitely not in our good books. Hamid Gul is somebody who was never appreciated by our government.

Asif Ali Zardari

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More people should read books. It's the most concentrated experience you can have.

Vivienne Westwood

ExperiencePeopleYouMoreBooks

Even with multiple instruction books, maneuvering the maze of the tax code is costly and time-consuming.

Mike Crapo

TaxMazeBooksCodeEvenMultiple

There are other types of public appearances a writer does in addition to book signings and readings. Each calls for different skills. None of these skills, needless to say, are those that go into writing books.

Jane Lindskold

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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

Salman Rushdie

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I don't take advances for my books.

Andrew Vachss

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I grew up with comic books, and I'm from the Caribbean, so comic books were really a great interrogator of American culture for me.

Winston Duke

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