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Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and… — Mark Haddon
I am always glad when any of my books can be put into an inexpensive edition, because I like to think that any people who… — Pearl S. Buck
Every time we killed a thousand Bugs at a cost of one M.I. it was a net victory for the Bugs. We were learning, expensively,… — Robert A. Heinlein
You will have significant experiences. I hope that you will write them down and keep record of them, that you will read them from time… — Gordon B. Hinckley
Books are more real when you read them outside. — Maggie Stiefvater
You can't just skip the boring parts." "Of course I can skip the boring parts." "How do you know they're boring if you don't read… — Gary D. Schmidt
Growing up, I was utterly oblivious to the fact that Mom was teaching me all that. But I was instantly aware of her final lesson,… — Ruth Reichl
Without a human voice to read them aloud, or a pair of wide eyes following them by flashlight beneath a blanket, books had no real… — John Connolly
All great writers have, of course, an atmosphere in which they seem most at their ease and at their best; a mood of the general… — Virginia Woolf
Generally speaking, books don't cause much harm. Except when you read them, that is. Then they cause all kinds of problems. — Pseudonymous Bosch
The library in summer is the most wonderful thing because there you get books on any subject and read them each for only as long… — Polly Horvath
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover… — Lloyd Alexander
Books are living things and their task lies in their vows of silence. You touch them as they quiver with a divine pleasure. You read… — Pat Conroy
I did not say anything. I was always embarresed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them,… — Ernest Hemingway
Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes. — Eugene O'Neill
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them,… — Aleksandar Hemon
I thought to myself, 'why not write a bestseller?' In the first place, more people buy them and more people read them. You make more… — George Burns
People without hope not only donâ€™t write novels, but what is more to the point, they donâ€™t read them. They donâ€™t take long looks at… — Flannery O'Connor
Create dangerously, for people who read dangerously. ... Writing, knowing in part that no matter how trivial your words may seem, someday, somewhere, someone may… — Edwidge Danticat
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was reading them or… — Alan Bennett

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