When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
Paul Merton
HistoryTimeListeningReadingBooks
I like terrific writing, but I also like a terrific story. My favorite books have both, and they're by contemporary, commercial American writers.
Lisa Scottoline
WritingStoryAmericanBooksLike
My hardcover sales are 17% down in books but up 400% in electronics.
Lisa See
DownSalesUpElectronicsBooks
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
Holly Black
LifeLovePeopleResearchYouBooks
Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind.
Oswald Chambers
EducationMindBlessedBooks
I feel I've got 10 books in me.
Robert Hunter
MeFeelGotBooksI Feel
Books have led some to learning and others to madness.
Petrarch
LearningMadnessOthersBooksSome
It used to be that comic strips were the big thing, and comic books were toilet paper.
Neal Adams
ToiletBigPaperUsedBooksComic
Even as a young child, I was a lover of books and of the spaces in which, as indeed in a sacred temple, books might safely reside.
Joyce Carol Oates
ChildYoungTempleSacredBooks
Producing came about because I never wanted to be in one of those books, Where Are They Now?
Henry Winkler
NowNeverWhereBecauseBooksThose
Philip Roth has been a huge influence on me. The early books I read in my teens and twenties.
Nathan Englander
MeInfluenceEarlyBeenBooksRead
When I was in the YA age range myself, I didn't feel like there were a lot of books for me.
Angie Thomas
AgeMyselfMeFeelBooksRange
I'm not as well read as I was when I was younger - I just devoured books.
Pete Wentz
WellJustBooksReadYounger
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
Neil Gaiman
BeenBooksWouldPossessionCause
The most interesting things that happen in my books are usually the things that arise spontaneously, the things that surprise me.
Jay McInerney
MeSurpriseInterestingHappenBooks
Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.
Hillary Clinton
TimeCookingGardeningGuiltyBooks
The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.
Maira Kalman
HomeIdeasLibrarySourceBooks
In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.
Jeffery Deaver
WordsPeopleMoreBooksWhoThan
Most of my inspiration, if that's the word, came from books themselves.
Shelby Foote
InspirationBooksWordMostCame
I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.
Marc Newson
NeverBuyBooksEvenMagazines
I'm one of those freaky people that actually reads books.
Jason Momoa
PeopleFreakyBooksThoseActually
Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.
Henry David Thoreau
MoreBooksEvenThanWhichGrandeur
I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
Malorie Blackman
ChildrenReadingVoiceBooks
I didn't read children's books when I was a child. The only books in our house were ration books.
Michael Foreman
ChildrenChildHouseOnlyBooksOur
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