Books quotes

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I am on a curiosity voyage, and I need my paddles to travel. These books…these books are my paddles.

- Dustin Henderson

I always thought stuff like this happened in movies and comic books.

- Bob Newby

f you don’t go after what you want, you’ll never have it. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. If you don’t step forward, you’re always in the same place.

- Nora Roberts

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

- Judy Holliday

So far it's 43 books in 25 years.

- Bernard Cornwell

Great masters neither want nor need your worship. Your greatest gift to them and yourself is to emulate their divinity by claiming it as your own.

- Alan Cohen

I knew that I wanted to be a writer even before I knew exactly what being a writer entailed.

- Dan Simmons

A book is always a dialogue with other readers and other books.

- Tim O'Reilly

To study the phenomena of disease without books is to sail an uncharted sea, while to study books without patients is not to go to sea at all.

- William Osler

After I've sent my revised draft to my agent and editor, they suggest more improvement sand again, this revision phase can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months.

- Margaret Haddix

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

- Voltaire

I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.

- Margaret Haddix

So, in effect, my first sale was actually two books.

- George Stephen

I knew that if I wrote a new book every six months or every year, if I continued to read great books, eventually I would write something worthy of publication. I understood I might be in my forties or my fifties or even my sixties, but I felt confident that it would happen.

- Augusten Burroughs

But everything of value about me is in my books.

- V. S. Naipaul

It's just so much fun to make up characters, situations, and everything else about a story. I have so much freedom and flexibility to do whatever I want.

- Margaret Haddix

I started trying to write when I was in second or third grade.

- Margaret Haddix

Books have become our dearest companions, yielding exquisite delights and inspiring lofty aims.

- George Henry Lewes

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

- Tom Hopkins

I wish I had had my books when I was a kid, I do.

- Paula Danziger

I have also written a book about the Giving of the Torah, and a book on the Days of Awe, and a book on the books of Israel that have been written since the day the Torah was given to Israel.

- Shmuel Y. Agnon

I agreed on condition that we found a completely new concept that had nothing to do with the latest books.

- Bernard Pivot

The pleasure of all reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

- Katherine Mansfield

Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever.

- George Orwell

I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.

- Nora Roberts

I will try to write books until I drop dead.

- Cornelia Funke

We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study.

- Mohandas Gandhi

If you read a lot of books you are considered well read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well viewed.

- Lily Tomlin

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

- Caroline B. Cooney

My last comment was, though, that Congress has cooked the books.

- Don Nickles