Abyss Quote by John Green

“In adventure books there weren't awkward pauses or embarrassing social scenes. In morality plays and farces there were rarely serious discussions of racial tension,…

— Liz Braswell

“How have you kept yourself as yourself all these years? 'Books,' the boy said. 'Thousands of books.' 'They must have been the right books.'…

— Dean Koontz

I didn't have picture books - there weren't many around when I was a child.

— Anthony Browne

When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told or books…

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

When my daughter was born, I was reading a lot of children's books, and there weren't any characters who looked like her. For all…

— Martellus Bennett

“The books still weren’t real, but maybe they were written about city women, television women, Yankee women—just about as strange as Zeus had always…

— Dorothy Allison

I think the books are the books. They were conceived as books. They weren't conceived as movies. When I write scripts, that's an idea…

— Bret Easton Ellis

That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while awake. He…

— Steven Millhauser

“The library—the place in my life that was full of books—beagan to teach me that books weren't everything.”

— Scott Douglas

“And everywhere, everywhere, there were books. Not the tidy stacks of an intellectual attempting to impress, but the slumping piles of a scholar obsessed.…

— Maggie Stiefvater

When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you…

— Patrick Rothfuss

The books weren't exactly Linnet's general reading fare, but a desperate woman will read anything.

— Eloisa James

If it weren't for the law, I would steal books; if it weren't for my purse, I would buy them.

— Harold Laski

I was lucky enough to be given books that weren't top sellers; books that were kind of under the radar

— Bill Sienkiewicz

“Art, he said, was a controlled madness...He said that books weren't made of themes, which you could write essays about, but of images that…

— Steven Millhauser