Quotes about books
books-and-reading five four jessica lived sarah series tv wrote
You could say I lived the life, I wrote the book, and then it was made into a TV series starring Sarah Jessica Parker. (The character) would have been me about four or five years ago. Candace Bushnell
books children fun hoping people picking saw summer
We saw there was a need, not to take over, but to expand. It's been fun and we're hoping that during the summer people will see there's something to read when they're picking up books for their children or grandchildren.
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used to cut a whole bunch of extra coupons out of the newspaper and the telephone book.
books definitely mile run
I definitely don't write with any kind of 'message' or 'lesson,' probably because when I was a child, I used to run a mile from books like that. Michelle Paver
books good
Really good books need a chaos element: something weird or inexplicable. Michel Faber
books boon four mills produce scale taught teaches time
Writing for Mills and Boon taught me a lot of discipline. You have to produce books in a short time scale and four a year, and it teaches you a lot.
books children food helped million providing save school
Save the Children is an awesome charity that has helped more than 125 million children around the world, providing everything from school books to food to blankets and shelter. PewDiePie
books deeply delightful expect good move novel reach roar
When you need a good laugh, do you reach for a book? I don't. I expect books to move me deeply and submerge me in another reality. So when a novel makes me roar with laughter, it's always a delightful surprise. Maria Semple
books days eight fortnight house library
We had library books in our house, but not our own. So you had 14 days to read them. There would be eight books a fortnight in our house and I'd read as many of those as I could. Sue Townsend
books books-and-reading competition days libraries passive people sat shelves waiting
The libraries of old -- passive organizations that just sat around waiting for people to come in and take the books off the shelves -- those days are over, ... We have competition out there. Gene Nelson
books buy digest initial interviews phone stack
The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and then I start doing phone interviews and archival research and then the travelling. John Jeremiah Sullivan
books faced help librarians online reliable roles teach trouble
The trouble is discernment. How do you know what's reliable and real and what's not? And who can help teach you that? That's one of the roles librarians have faced and embraced. Before, it was discernment about books in collections. Now, it's online databases and resources. Glenn Miller
books literally sales scottish-writer twice written
These are pretty much the most critically-acclaimed books I've ever written and the sales have been literally twice what we were all expecting. Mark Millar
books effective laws
These are laws on the books that are effective and that are enforceable.
books books-and-reading both developing excellent help home manage resources systems
These are both excellent books for developing systems in your home and office, with many resources to help you manage your time.
books books-and-reading guys
These guys can look at our books just as we can look at their books.
books-and-reading guns matter priorities
It's a matter of what are our priorities as a nation. Obviously, our priorities are guns and not books.
bookstores chain companies editors hard laid large online retailers
It's hard selling books in general: companies are merging, editors being laid off, bricks-and-mortar bookstores closing, large chain bookstores squeezing out independents, and online retailers squeezing out chain bookstores. Christina Baker Kline
books hard huge particular
It's hard recommending books for kids, and a huge responsibility. If you get it wrong, they don't tell you they hate that particular book, they tell you they hate reading. Meg Rosoff
books college colleges million partner students talking
This is phenomenal. Students from any of the partner colleges can now go to the other college and use their library, all their resources, their professional staff. We're talking over a million books combined.
bookstores innocent pleasure
An author is a person who can never take innocent pleasure in visiting a bookstore again. Roy Blount, Jr.
books-and-movies lines geek
Never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line. William Goldman