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My books are not generic. You know when you're reading a Joy Fielding book.

Joy Fielding

[from trailer] Max Vandenburg: Words are life, Liesel. All those pages, they're for you to fill.

The Book Thief

[from trailer] Rosa Hubermann: Can we trust her? She's a child. Hans Hubermann: She's our daughter.

The Book Thief

Rudy Steiner: I'm not ready. I want to grow up before I die.

The Book Thief

Max Vandenburg: "Don't ever apologize to me. It should be me who apologizes to you."

The Book Thief

Jordan Belfort: [when asked who is Captain Ahab] The book, motherfucker, the book!

The Wolf of Wall Street

I have a publishing company of books by me and books of others. It drew people to poetry readings and photo exhibitions and painting exhibitions that I've been doing for years before that.

Viggo Mortensen

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Angela Carter

Making books is hard work. Some books are, of course, more demanding than others.

David Macaulay

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.

Virginia Woolf

Siobhan said that when you are writing a book you have to include some descriptions of things. I said that I could take photographs and put them in the book. But she said the idea of a book was to describe things using words so that people could read...

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

Even the most beautifully written, perfectly edited and well-designed books will fail if people aren't made aware of them!" ––Linda Radke, President of Five Star Publications, on the importance of public relations and marketing.

The Economical Guide to Self-Publishing: How to Produce and Market Your Book on a Budget

Perhaps reading and writing books is one of the last defences human dignity has left, because in the end they remind us of what God once reminded us before He too evaporated in this age of relentless humiliations—that we are more than ourselves; th...

Gould's Book of Fish: A Novel in Twelve Fish

That's what I love about reading: one tiny thing will interest you in a book, and that tiny thing will lead you to another book, and another bit there will lead you onto a third book. It's geometrically progressive - all with no end in sight, and for...

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

A doctor is advertised by the bodies he cures. My business is advertised by the minds I stimulate. And let me tell you that the book business is different from other trades. People don't know they want books. I can see just by looking at you that you...

The Haunted Bookshop

I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back on reli...

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with many supposedly real people with the metaphysical absurdity known as ‘flesh and blood’. In fact, ‘flesh and bl...

The Book of Disquiet

My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the void, and in the waters, more like whirlwinds than waters, float images of all I ever saw or heard in the world: houses, faces, b...

The Book of Disquiet

I held out my book. It was precious to me, as were all the things I'd written; even where I despised their inadequacy there was not one I would disown. Each tore its way from my entrails. Each had shortened my life, killed me with its own special lit...

The Book of the Damned

They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread thei...

The Book of Images

Want to inspire your kids to read more? Try giving them kids some money to spend just on a book. Take them to a bookstore and let them browse and pick out one book that they will love. Or try going to a local library for a few hours and just let your...

The Bible's Story: Saga of the Savior King