I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.

Caroline B. Cooney

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I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.

Caroline B. Cooney

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published.

Caroline B. Cooney

I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Caroline B. Cooney

I love all of it, thinking up the plots, getting to know the kids in the story, their parents, backyards, pizza toppings.

Caroline B. Cooney

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published.

Caroline B. Cooney

I believe my readers are crazy about their parents and want to be just like them when they grow up.

Caroline B. Cooney

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys.

Caroline B. Cooney

I'm one of the lucky writers: plots come easily to me.

Caroline B. Cooney

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

Caroline B. Cooney

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment.

Caroline B. Cooney

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

Caroline B. Cooney

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's.

Caroline B. Cooney

I believe my voice is pretty much the same. I've written 75 books, so I'm better at it now than I was earlier in my career.

Caroline B. Cooney

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

Peter Straub

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

William Ellery Channing

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

Carolyn Wells

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

Jim Harrison

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Billy Joel

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

Alain de Botton

The proper study of mankind is books.

Aldous Huxley

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

Lisa Whelchel

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

Phillip Noyce

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

Louisa May Alcott

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Slavoj Zizek

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

Moshe Dayan

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Clayton Christensen

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

Norman MacCaig

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

Charles Guggenheim

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

Monica Lewinsky

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

Jeanette Winterson

Caroline B. Cooney

I never buy magazines, I never even buy books.

Marc Newson

Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.

Susan Sontag

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

Ken Follet

Well see, I'm a good enough writer that not everybody in my books talks exactly like I do.

Robert Kirkman

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions.

Rick Moody

But then I go through long periods where I don't listen to things, usually when I'm working. In between the records and in between the writing I suck up books and music and movies and anything I can find.

Bruce Springsteen

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.

Jeff Miller

The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.

Iris Chang

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

Bruce Boxleitner

And yes, there's a simplicity to writing books because you're not a member of a team, so you make all the decisions yourself instead of deferring to a committee.

Bernard Cornwell

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Amy Lowell

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside.

Henry David Thoreau

When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

Elvis Presley

I've written a lot of books which are written from the moon - the view from nowhere.

Clifford Geertz

There are some fine books and essays about that. Lewis Hyde has written about alcoholism and poets and the role that society gives its writers - encouraging them to die.

Sharon Olds

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari.

Dean Koontz