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You cannot pretend to read a book. Your eyes will give you away. So will your breathing. A person entranced by a book simply forgets to breathe. The house can catch alight and a reader deep in a book will not look up until the wallpaper is in flames.Collection: Book
I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in one of the hill streams, but in a book. No one had told us kids to look there for a friend. Or that you could slip inside the skin of another. Or travel to another place with marshes, and where, to our ears, the bad people spoke like pirates.Collection: Book
There’s nothing as cozy as a piece of candy and a book.Collection: Book
This book, when I am dead, will be A little faint perfume of me. People who knew me well will say, She really used to think that way.Collection: Book
Books can be terrible snobs.Collection: Book
A book is a loaded gun.Collection: Book
Writing is a intensely personal activity. I can pen down my best thoughts when Im alone. But when one is elevated into the stature of an author, you have to think about your books in terms of their business angle.Collection: Book
An author, whether good or bad, or between both, is an animal whom every body is privileged to attack: for though all are not able to write books, all conceive themselves able to judge them.Collection: Book
A bus came. The soldier turned away from her and walked toward it. Tatiana watched him. Even his walk was from another world; the step was too sure, the stride too long, yet somehow it all seemed right, looked right, felt right. It was like stumbling on a book you thought you had lost. Ah, yes, there it is.Collection: Book
Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to read books.Collection: Book
I consciously try not to play favorites with my characters or my books.Collection: Book
I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. I am very happy when people have worn out my books, or that they're held together by Scotch tape.Collection: Book
I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.Collection: Book
I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women, most of the editors are women, and these are books written for the female gaze. And so my point of view - the way I looked at fandom and publishing and writing - was all about women. So for me that's what was natural, that's what was comfortable. And then I moved over to comics. And all of a sudden it was... Pardon the expression, it was a sausage fest.Collection: Book
The books which help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is by easy reading; every man that tries it finds it so. But a great book that comes from a great thinker, — it is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth, with beauty too.Collection: Book
The secret to writing sound effects is having a room you can be alone in, trying to make the sounds yourself, and seeing what comes out. It's similar to if you're writing a character talking with their mouth full: the only way I know to transcribe that is to stuff my fist in my mouth and write down what sounds I make when I try to talk.Collection: Book
The books you love best - those are the immensity of the sea.Collection: Book
I always try to stay as quiet as possible about a book until it's finished.Collection: Book
Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her glasses, put down her book and stared at him. "Amazingly enough, the whole world doesn't revolve around you, Reid. Lori's sister is sick and Lori took her to the doctor. She'll be back in an hour or so. Can you survive on your own until then, or should I call 9-1-1 for emergency assistance?Collection: Book
The best moment is when you walk into a bookstore and see a pile of your books - that is the oddest experience in the world!Collection: Book
I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book.Collection: Book
And so, we end with a beginning. Because every ending is really a beginning. All you need is a house that's old and creaky ... filled with lots of books ... a cat ... a person who's willing to try again ... someone who promises never to leave ... and most important of all ... a little Hope.Collection: Book
No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books.Collection: Book
The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.Collection: Book
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.Collection: Book
A man will be known by his books.Collection: Book
Every time you finish something ... you figure you've finally learned to write, right? Then you start something else and it turns out you haven't. You have learned how to write that story, or that book, but you haven't learned how to write the next one.Collection: Book
I would willingly pass my life writing and re-writing the same book - that one book every writer carries within him - the image of his own soul.Collection: Book
Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.Collection: Book
A book is more than the sum of its materials. It is an artifact of the human mind and hand.Collection: Book
Books are my friends, where it's okay to be silent, where you're not a freak if you don't want to get drunk, peel out in the parking lot, tip cows.Collection: Book
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it.Collection: Book
No book or expert can protect us from the range of painful emotions that make us human.Collection: Book
Only in movies or books or TV do we have a chance to actually like aspects of a killer.Collection: Book
With a book in your hand...you can go anywhere you wantCollection: Book
That's exactly how I want you to feel. When you finish this book, I want you to be filled with curiosity. I want you to say, “I have to find out what happens next,” and then I want you to head to your nearest library or bookstore to pick up a copy of Wuthering Heights.Collection: Book
I always order the banned books from a black market dealer in California, figuring if the State of Mississippi banned them, they must be good.Collection: Book
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again.Collection: Book
I grew up in the 1970s, but I don't think a whole lot had changed from the '60s. Oh, it had changed in the law books - but not in the kitchens of white homes.Collection: Book
Why read the Book of Mormon? Because angels do not come on trivial errands.Collection: Book
The tragedy of the Book of Mormon is not what became of the Nephites but what the Nephites became.Collection: Book
The Book of Mormon is an inexhaustible encyclopedia of knowledge.Collection: Book
There is humanist enterprise of the book, and amongst that there are many, many stories. And that is why at the end, when he says that the stories are so illuminating that they must be engraved and encased in gold and put in the palace library, the people who compile the book are telling us that this is a collection of human wisdom.Collection: Book
Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than the fairy tale landscape of the West. Though we have interiors and palaces, we don't have bustling cities, and there isn't the emphasis on the artisan making things. The ambiance from which they were written was an entirely different one. The Arabian Nights comes out of a huge world of markets and trade. Cairo, Basra, Damascus: trades and skills.Collection: Book
There's a whole slew of wonderful speculation of flying in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one of the central examples; Swift has the hum of Arabian Nights in his ear with Gulliver's Travels. The difference is in scale - Gulliver as a kind of Sinbad kind of figure, the way he is picked up and carried. Just to finish up with Scheherazade, I do think that The Arabian Nights could be considered as a great book on women's position in the world.Collection: Book
I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to you - there's just no stopping you.Collection: Book
I think we all like to get away from our troubles and worries with a good book.Collection: Book
I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.Collection: Book
Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.Collection: Book
She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.Collection: Book