Best My Books Thoughts
570 My Books quotes by 407 unique authors
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What I do with my books is to create windows to my world that all may peer into. I share the images, the feelings and…
— Walter Dean Myers
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My books are just pure escapism for kids.
— Dav Pilkey
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My books are written with a strong chronological spine.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
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Every sentence has a truth waiting at the end of it and the writer learns how to know it when he finally gets there. On…
— Don DeLillo
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I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is…
— Sarah Dessen
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Well, my books - I think one of the hallmarks of my thrillers is that they're based in reality.
— Brad Thor
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I had a briefcase at one point, but it was a kind of 1980s New Wave briefcase. It was made of some kind of cardboard…
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
— David James Duncan
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My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.
— Bethenny Frankel
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I have been a reader of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a long time, since I was 11 or 12 I think, so I understand…
— Jean M. Auel
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I don't write for publishers, certainly not for critics, and not for readers, But I am delighted that so many people have found my books…
— Jean M. Auel
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I really try to focus on my books and readers.
— Emily Giffin
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The tree I had in the garden as a child, my beech tree, I used to climb up there and spend hours. I took my…
— Jane Goodall
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My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.
— Thomas Hood
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All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids…
— Patricia Reilly Giff
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I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts. I want them to make…
— Patricia Reilly Giff
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I do like to explore evil characters in my books.
— Thomas Perry
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In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have always been drawn to…
— Susan Wiggs
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I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books…
— Nina Bawden
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Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach…
— Alberto Manguel
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I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being the fourth of…
— Beth Richardson Gutcheon
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I should as soon think of swimming across Charles River, when I wish to go to Boston, as of reading all my books in originals,…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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I don't think about who the audience is for my books.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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They like my books better in England than in France; a translation would be very successful there.
— Marcel Proust
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The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.
— Kristin Hannah
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