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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.
Books were my window on the world. Growing up at the Elephant and Castle, which was very rough, my paradise was the library.
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but how many can get through to you.
When I was 7, my proudest possession would have been my bookshelf 'cause I had alphabetized all of the books on my bookshelf.
I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration.
I look at books as being a form of activism. Sometimes they'll show us a side of the world that we might not have known about.
Read, read, read. Read good books. You will strengthen your understanding of story. Your vocabulary will be the richer for it.
In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.
I'm on the playstation, or else I go out and play football. I enjoy movies and sitcoms. I love reading motivational books too.
Why do I write books? Why do I think? Why should I be passionate? Because things could be different, they could be made better.
I love my books, and with all their dog-ears and under-linings they are irreplaceable, but I sometimes wish they'd just vanish.
God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.
Censorship is a strange situation. There was times when people would burn books because they didn't like what people were doing.
Sibling relationships figure in a lot of my books. You don't often see relationships between adult siblings explored in fiction.
I'm a rock climber, a high-altitude climber, an adventurer, a storyteller through my museums, and a writer of more than 50 books.
You will find something more in woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you that which you can never learn from masters.
The best students come from homes where education is revered: where there are books, and children see their parents reading them.
A harsh reality of newspaper editing is that the deadlines don't allow for the polish that you expect in books or even magazines.
PR and marketing doesn't sell books. It gets attention for them. It sends readers to bookstores and websites to read a few pages.
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.
We have always been taught that hockey is our national game, but it is only in general knowledge books and not on official papers.
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.
Personally, I love books, and I am interested in the notion that stories are told better in different media depending on the story.
My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.
I definitely thought I was going to write books. I wrote a couple of children's books when I was like 11 when I was a child myself!
Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.
A man, to read, must read alone. He may make extracts, he may work at books in company; but to read, to absorb, he must be solitary.
Books and theater were the way I understood the world and also the way I organized my sense of morality, of how to live a good life.
Being pregnant is the most natural thing our bodies can do. Our grandparents did it without all these books, and they came out okay.
Oftentimes I deliberately put ambiguity into my books so that... the reader is left with an echo of: 'How much of this was from me?'
'Lord of the Flies' is one of my favorite books. That was a big influence on me as a teenager; I still read it every couple of years.
He who studies medicine without books sails an uncharted sea, but he who studies medicine without patients does not go to sea at all.
If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.
The first fantasy books I can remember reading were 'The Shy Stegosaurus of Cricket Creek' and the series of 'Mushroom Planet' books.
It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should also be the first line of offense.
I have a TV show, a radio show. I've authored two books. I own a construction company, own a commercial fishing lodge, and am a pilot.
If you want to help arm the schools, arm them with school supplies, books, therapists - things they actually need and can make use of.
Writers don't write writing, they write reading. When I was a kid, I read four or five books a week. And that is how I became a writer.
I have a Facebook page and a website. Beyond that, I'm actually a very private person. I'd rather see the focus on the books than on me.
My grandfather died before I was born, so I never had the chance to speak with him about his father. But I learned about him from books.
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
I'm inspired by many different things. Often, I'm inspired by experiences I've had, books I've read, people I've met, stories I've heard.
I think it's always good to read local authors or relevant books. In Egypt, I studied hieroglyphics and read everything about the mummies.
To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.