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ALAN KING

Youve got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and youve got to be a humorist to stay one.
WILL ROGERS You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read...
KERI HULME

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER If they read two books then two books will be given to 'First Book,'
ELIZABETH MOORE

You've got to love libraries. You've got to love books. You've got to love poetry. You've got to lov...
RAY BRADBURY

I love the longueurs of a book even if they seem pointless because you can get a peek into the autho...
E.A. BUCCHIANERI

I read whenever possible, and I buy books all the time, sometimes online, but mostly from bookshops....
HANS-ULRICH OBRIST Later that night though, as I stayed awake into the early hours of morning devouring the second nove...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER I want people to love to sit in my chairs. You gotta want the people to buy it because they love it.
CHARLES POLLOCK

It is easier to buy books than to read them, and easier to read them than to absorb them.
WILLIAM OSLER

I've only read two books in my life: Baseball Sparkplug and Love Story.
GEORGE BRETT

We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.

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WARREN ZEVON What about stocks? You got to buy them. What if they break? You have to buy the dips.
RICK SANTELLI The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry; The books that we would like to read we...
CAROLYN WELLS Some read to learn, some to laugh, and some to live.
JOYCE RACHELLE The books I used to love as a kid, I used to read football books - and by that I mean soccer books -...
BEN LLOYD-HUGHES People love to talk about new and different. They don't always love to buy and read new and diff...
G. WILLOW WILSON I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There’s a whole new world in books. If ...
MICHAEL JACKSON I take the book stopped at a fold, deliver myself to its pace, to the breathing of the other storyte...
ERRI DE LUCA I haven't got time to read books.'

'What do you mean you haven't got time? What are you d...
PAULO COELHO It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their conte...
WILLIAM OSLER Many people buy life insurance and forget about it. What you buy and how much you buy depends upon t...
HERB PERONE Sections in the bookstore

- Books You Haven't Read
- Books You Needn't Read
- B...
ITALO CALVINO Stephen King started to read comics first, I started to watch films and little reading books...Now e...
DEYTH BANGER The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read...
CAROLYN WELLS If you want to be a good actor or director, firstly see life, secondly see films and thirdly read bo...
MD. ZIAUL HAQUE Can miles truly separate you from friends....If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you alr...
RICHARD BACH Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you alr...
RICHARD BACH If you want to coach, then that should be what you do, ... You have to want to wake up in the mornin...
JAMES MCKEAN I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, hu...
SUZI QUATRO Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always th...
LORD CHESTERFIELD There's a saying. If you want someone to love you forever, buy a dog, feed it and keep it around...
DICK DALE A series of books, dilapidated and faded, sit bundled together. Most of the bindings are separating ...
KELSEYLEIGH REBER Mes poumons sont remplis de l'air pur mon esprit est ouvert et libéré, la sérénité remplit tous...
JACOB MAHURIEN Money is worth nothing if it can't buy you the opportunity to love more.
OPRAH WINFREY I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read b...
RAINN WILSON You must remember that you are my prime treasure (and always have been).'
Emma Darwin to husban...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN Those books of mine really got under their skin. Ironically, they thought I was inhuman becau...
STEVE TOLTZ It's not about worthiness, it's about willingness.
R. ALAN WOODS Focus in on the genre you want to write, and read books in that genre. A LOT of books by a variety o...
NICHOLAS SPARKS If you only read books, how will you read the scripture inside you?
TAPAN GHOSH Read at least one book a month. This is self-serving, obviously. It's a proven fact that people who ...
RANDY PAUSCH Don't you ever mind," she asked suddenly, "not being rich enough to buy all the books you want?
EDITH WHARTON As Romeo and Juliet found to their cost, marriage is never just about two people falling in love, it...
MARINA LEWYCKA The traffic is so slow today that I read two books, ate lunch, dinner, replied to all my emails, and...
ANONYMOUS If your best friends do not read books, they read you.
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH You can't consume much if you sit still and read books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY There are so many books I love for different reasons. For superhero stuff, I always go back to Alan ...
JEFF LEMIRE If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on ...
RAY BRADBURY First, if you love the Kindle and it works for you, it isn't problematic, and you should ignore ...
NICHOLSON BAKER The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO We are afraid that our freedoms and liberties will be infringed in the future.
ANDREW TO I think there was some minor selling pressure on telecom stocks as the market continued to see a wea...
ANDREW TO There are resources there that are set up for everyone to use. If you don't have 50 cents to buy a n...
JAMES WAGHORNE GoodReads is fabulous fun, so interesting, so useful ... and the best reviewers are so loving and il...
WILLIAM DONELSON Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls ...
DADA VASWANI I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire to read
THOMAS BABINGTON MACAULAY A Ritual to Read to Each Other

If you don’t know the kind of person I am
and...
WILLIAM STAFFORD I often say that we should only be judged on two things: if we’re kind, and if we read books.
PAIGE SHELTON Once he'd asked, "Don't you want to read? There are hundreds of books in the sitting room."
SARAH ADDISON ALLEN Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of...
JEFFERY DEAVER I want to prove that if you write in strict meter and rhyme about subjects people care about, they w...
FELIX DENNIS Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.
ALDOUS HUXLEY Be who you want to be not what others think you should be.
BILAL SAIF Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule t...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER Nobody wants to read about the honest lawyer down the street who does real estate loans and wills. I...
JOHN GRISHAM Let's read as if books were to disappear tomorrow!
GABRIELLE DUBOIS I read everything and anything. I love books.
GAIL PORTER I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were hu...
LISA SEE Alan shrugged. “I love the CBC, really, but being voted its president—” “Co-president,” Sp...
J.M. RICHARDS I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy ...
ALAN DAVIES The first marriage for a man is a big lesson, the second a grave blunder, the third a fatal accident...
ANUJ SOMANY We must be more and more to each other, my dear wife.' -Charles Darwin to wife Emma upon loss of dau...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN I wish you knew how I value you; and what an inexpressible blessing it is to have one whom one can a...
DEBORAH HEILIGMAN If you want to read and you want to draw, that helps you to express yourself.
QUENTIN BLAKE If you think you have it tough, read history books.
BILL MAHER Read two old books for every new one.
J.I. PACKER Buy other authors' books when you go to their events. Even if you aren't going to read it. E...
M. J. ROSE I don't want to read about some of these actresses who are around today. They sound like my niece in...
VINCENT PRICE If someone talks about union, fidelity, a monogamous relationship, love, blessing; I would say it so...
GEORGE CAREY I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
RAIN I have learned that you can go anywhere you want to go and do anything you want to do and buy all th...
C. JOYBELL C. Have you ever felt really close to someone? So close that you can't understand why you and the other...
NANCY GARDEN You don't have to learn much out of books, it's like if you want to learn about cows, you go milk on...
HARPER LEE To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
IRVIN D. YALOM Thank you for the friendship! Yes, GoodReads is fabulous fun, and the best reviews are so illuminati...
WILLIAM DONELSON If you want honesty and love, you have to be honest and loving and loveable.
AKSEL HENNIE If you read a book which does not make you wonder, ponder!
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON People will tend to buy what you have to offer if they want it and when you show you care more about...
LORRIN L. LEE

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A.S. KING you can, you should, and if you’re brave enough to start, you will.
STEPHEN KING There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the stor...
STEPHEN KING You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is col...
STEPHEN KING Tak is here now, and he speaks with the voice of the older age; with the voice of the unformed.
STEPHEN KING You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose t...
STEPHEN KING The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.
STEPHEN KING Description begins in the writer’s imagination, but should finish in the reader’s.
STEPHEN KING If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.
STEPHEN KING I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was 12 - Jesus, did you?
STEPHEN KING Friends don’t spy; true friendship is about privacy, too.
STEPHEN KING During the feminist seventies men were caught between a rock and a hard-on; in the fathering eightie...
FLORENCE KING People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right...
FLORENCE KING Hurt's a reason to change, but all the hurt in the world don't change facts.
STEPHEN KING Those colorful denizens of male despair, the Bowery bum and the rail-riding hobo, have been replaced...
FLORENCE KING Please, we can get along here.
RODNEY KING In its purest sense, nicknaming is an elitist ritual practiced by those who cherish hierarchy. For p...
FLORENCE KING Any discussion of the problems of being funny in America will not make sense unless we substitute th...
FLORENCE KING

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