Eight out of 100 people in the Himalayas have published their own books.

The publication of a book only brings very paltry results to its author.

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler's dream.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.

Dollar for dollar there is no better investment in the world than a book

If you wish to avoid an unpleasant story you had best put this book down

Every time you buy tickets on Ticketmaster, you help to digitize a book.

An anthology is like all the plums and orange peel picked out of a cake.

Reading is important - read between the lines. Don't swallow everything.

There are more truths in a good book than its author meant to put in it.

People hate good books to be over. I wish I could write a 700-page book.

I can tell you this, if it wasn't for my book royalties, I'd be in debt.

I do wish I had brought my cheque book. I don't believe in credit cards.

I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas.

Here's the secret to finishing that first book. Don't rewrite as you go.

It's fun to just skim through piles of books in the stacks of a library.

A good book is the plectrum with which our else silent lyres are struck.

There is a certain degree of steampunkishness that creeps into my books.

You are not educated if all you have achieved is the study of ten books.

Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book.

Bookstores see a book by a woman and they put it in the romance section.

I never commit to memory anything that can easily be looked up in a book

It ought to be a crime for any woman to have children that writes books.

Instead of putting flowers in books to flatten them you can use a brick.

You can't tell a doper well under control from a vegetarian book-keeper.

We are on the cusp of a marketing revolution. And it's being led by YOU.

There are so many books and movies I like I never mention specific ones.

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Let us pick up our books and pencils. They are our most powerful weapon.

Anything created by human beings is already in the great book of nature.

I think I'm much more comfortable talking about other books than my own!

Good books make you ask questions. Bad readers want everything answered.

The art of medicine cannot be inherited, nor can it be copied from books

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

My books kept me from the ring, the dog-pit, the tavern, and the saloon.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

Write your own book instead of reading someone else's book about success

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

There are all kinds of writers. The best writers write children's books.

I simply don't shine in company. Mostly I prefer to retreat with a book.

The books I haven't written are better than the books other people have.

People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory.

Never read a book to the end, nor even in sequence and without skipping.

The writer after all is only half the book, the other half is the reader.

Vengeful conquerors burn books as if the enemy's souls reside there, too.

Literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are a necessity.

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