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I like reading books where people with a lot of money use it to do whatever they want. Like stay in expensive hotels and do whatever drugs they want and fly wherever they want.

I wrote a few children's books... not on purpose.

I read a lot of true-crime books, but sometimes they can put you in a bad mood.

Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create your own vision of things.

I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did not. That's one of them.

I've never written a children's book, but when people meet me for the first time and I say I write books, they invariably reply, 'Children's books?' Maybe it's something about my face.

I probably shouldn't admit this since I work in the tech industry, but I still prefer reading paper books.

This is where you and I are headed.... Look for us in history books and you'll find us in the margins. Look for us in legends and you might just find us celebrated

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

We be of one blood, ye and I

Everybody wants confidence but you don't find it in self help books. You find confidence in the Holy Spirit.

Picture books are more difficult for me because it is telling a huge story in the least amount of words.

And the history books forgot about us, and the bible didn’t mention us

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.

In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Each new book is a tremendous challenge.

When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.

I like the idea of being involved in pictures that can entertain the entire family and can stimulate youngsters into looking at picture books. There's nothing wrong with that.

I'm always reading books, I'm always having encounters, I'm always taking trips. Whatever it is you come up with about how you got started, that's equally true for all the books you didn't start.

Books and movies inspire me, but I do my best to keep my stories as original as possible.

I think that the practice of writing every day was what made me remember that writing doesn't have anything to do with publishing books. It can be totally separate and private - a comforting thought.

It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .

I don't really read children's books or deal with children's books, so I don't have any relationship with them other than my own.

I spent my life in the library reading books.

I spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape.

A promise, a bond, a joy, a love for the ages, for the history books.…But what was love but pain?

I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

...That he'd seen...two people, a young man and a woman, sitting on invisible furniture with their feet up, reading books and eating chocolates.

I do not remember any proper children's books in my childhood. I was not exposed to them.

She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns there and of going out to a restaurant, alone, to eat.

When I'm not working on a children's book, I'm painting abstract paintings. That's probably the most joyous thing for me as an artist. But I do love children's books.

I've come to the conclusion that you can't write scary books unless you're easily scared yourself.

Even though I've reached retirement age, I still plan to work - writing my investment newsletter, speaking at conferences, publishing books, and producing conferences like FreedomFest.

I read very, very little fiction as a kid. All the books I can remember are junior science books.

Beautiful books are always written in a sort of foreign language.

For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

At heart, Pearson is in the intellectual property business, be it through publishing books or the Financial Times.

I had to keep the text pretty spare compared to what I would typically do in a picture book. My picture books have a lot of little jokes and asides that aren't necessarily part of the main story.

I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and it was a mystery story in pictures. It had no words.

I'm constantly reading books on God or the absence of God and atheism.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'

I am a crazy online shopper. My husband always jokes, Another box arrived! Airplanes used to be my sanctuary for reading books, but now I have to peruse Gilt sales.

If a spectator with a philosophical mind, somebody accustomed to reading books, gets the same kind of information in a movie, he might not fully understand it.

Reading a story should be a fabulous, wonderful thing. The most important thing that parents can do for kids is to read with them and to let their kids see them reading books for their own pleasure.

The Web is the new book though, innit?

So much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary books and sci-fi/fantasy books as existing on a continuum.

My reading practice is one reason I mostly don't read electronically. Different books are in different rooms of my house, and one is in my backpack. Physical location tells me what book to read.