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I'm obsessed with zombies. I like watching zombie movies and I read zombie books.

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Americans like fat books and thin women.

It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.

That difficult start drove me on to inspire children and let them know that it is never to late to repair a bad experience at school, and once you get your head down and start to read books, you can really achieve.

I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.

By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.

Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.

The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.

Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.

So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!

When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.

But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.

When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.