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Belief in great results is the driving force, the power behind all great books, plays, scientific discoveries.
I like to read a lot of books and poems. Even though poems are short, I enjoy the emotions that come with them.
All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
The printing press did something really big for the world when everyone could get books in their hands and read.
I remember my favorite books when I was a kid: 'The Redwall Adventure' series, 'Ender's Game,' things like that.
I have this deep love for authors. I think that we don't do enough to encourage love of words and love of books.
I was a library rat and a bookworm. I read all the time. I walked to school reading books. I read under my desk.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
I've always been a big fan of utopian, future, new-world stories - 'V For Vendetta,' comic books, graphic novels.
Books are mind reading devices; they allow us free access to the thoughts and dreams of people we have never met.
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.
At the time I wrote 'Forever,' I had a 14-year-old daughter, and she was reading a lot of books about young love.
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest.
I don't cry too often reading books, but I did reading Francisco Goldman's autobiographical novel, 'Say Her Name.'
Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.
My first two books are out of print and, okay, they can sleep there comfortably. It's early work, derivative work.
Inspiration comes from everywhere. From life, observing people, etc. From movies and books you love. From research.
Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
In 1971, when I was 29, I wrote my first volume of poetry. I am a poet, and I have published four books of my poems.
When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.
I've written 18 books, mostly dealing with issues of social justice, ending racism, feminism, and cultural criticism.
When I was in prison, I was wrapped up in all those deep books. That Tolstoy crap - people shouldn't read that stuff.
There is a religion around 'Star Wars' that is different than even the fanaticism around comic books and other media.
I've always been interested in science - one of my favourite books is James Watson's 'Molecular Biology of the Gene.'
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
I get daily mentions in blogs, I get mentions in Twitter and in different social media... I know that gets books sold.
There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
What would have become of me if no one had wanted to read my books? And don't forget all those who have written of me.
Superman was my first comic back in the '50s; that was me under the bedspread with the flashlight reading comic books.
Some people play the piano, some do Sudoku, some watch television, some people go out to dinner parties. I write books.
One of the great needs of Negro children is to have books about themselves and their lives that can help them be proud.
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.
I think the past need not be the dead past. If we get it right, with new books, the past can be a beacon for the future.
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
Life is a wonderful thing to talk about, or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.
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.
The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.
If you read a lot of books, you're considered well-read. But if you watch a lot of TV, you're not considered well-viewed.
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big, some are small.
The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.
Agatha Christie's writing is incredibly skillful because her books are incredibly intellectually puzzling and challenging.
I want to go down in the history books as one of the greatest female boxers of all time, and I think I'm on the right path.
Books and opinions, no matter from whom they came, if they are in opposition to human rights, are nothing but dead letters.
The two books I've re-read more than any others are Guenter Grass's 'The Tin Drum' and Victor Hugo's 'Notre-Dame de Paris'.
The world is a fabric we weave daily on the great looms of information, discussions, films, books, gossip, little anecdotes.