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Magazine articles are the new books. -- Tina Brown
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -- John Wooden
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning. -- Roland Barthes
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print. -- Laurell K. Hamilton
We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that. -- Richard Curtis
In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind. -- George Weah
Read two old books for every new one. -- J. I. Packer
I prefer buying new books to a pair of new shoes. -- Zhalya Abiyeva
You couldn't unburn the books. You could only buy new ones. -- Kami Garcia
I am rather more apt to read old books than new ones. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing new ever happens in the books. It's the same old theme. -- Kate DiCamillo
Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve. -- Edward Abbey
In proportion as society refines, new books must ever become more necessary. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them. -- Evan Esar
Who ever converses among old books will be hard to please among the new. -- William Temple
I love making books for children. Big kids, little kids, old kids and new. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
I look upon book reviews as an infantile disease which new-born books are subject to. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
And how could anyone consent to give up the smell of open books, old or new? -- Elizabeth Kostova
When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation. -- Elizabeth Kostova
They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas. -- Emil Ruder
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones. -- John Wooden
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. -- Dean Koontz
My first collection of poems was published by Bloodaxe Books, which was then a very new imprint. -- Helen Dunmore
I keep to old books, for they teach me something; from the new I learn very little -- Voltaire
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. -- Abraham Lincoln
I love book signings: kids waiting in line for you to scribble on their new books, haha! -- Brian Jacques
The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. -- Roald Dahl
My favorite reader is one that revisits books and gets something new out of them each time. -- Jacqueline Woodson
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribners in New York before I was 30. -- Morley Callaghan
I had my success too soon. Three books published with Scribner's in New York before I was 30. -- Morley Callaghan
I know another New York Times bestselling author - Beth Kephart - she self-published one of her books. -- Caroline Leavitt
Books have been to me what gold is to the miser, what new fields are to the explorer. -- Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography! -- Emil Ruder
People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas. -- Jasper Fforde
To be a person who loves books is to be half in love with the idea of New York. -- Gwen Cooper
It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. -- Jo Walton
That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself. -- Kofi Siriboe
I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready. -- Jonathan Lethem
The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new. -- Ben Katchor
My husband and I are huge bibliophiles. He's always reading 'The New York Times Book Review' and then ordering 20 books online. -- Carrie Coon
Books seek us out. They slip themselves into our hands just at the time we are ready for a new self-concept. -- Hugh Prather
If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books. -- Anna Quindlen
Shall we for ever make new books, as apothecaries make new mixtures, by pouring only out of one vessel into another? -- Laurence Sterne
Children's books have great potential to reveal new possibilities to readers, because the intended audience is at an age of genuine learning. -- Vivek Shraya
It is the simple truth to say that the New Testament books became canonical because no one could stop them doing so. -- William Barclay
Too many people write books because they want to be a New York Times best-seller. They want the glory and the fame. -- Simon Sinek
The New 52,' I was really excited that new people got to jump in on books. In particular, on 'Aqua Man.' -- Geoff Johns
I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books, I have to start a new direction. -- Daniel Woodrell
Reading is the basic springboard for learning. And books provide the liftoff. They are the great equalizer, opening up new worlds to everyone. -- Mary Pope Osborne
To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones. -- Will Thomas
Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards. -- Martin Amis
Humans are very complex; I definitely have a new respect for authors that are able to write books nonstop. It's an incredible talent. -- Hilary Duff
The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987) -- Anatole Broyard
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new direction. -- Daniel Woodrell
New York has been the subject of thousands of books. Every immigrant group has had its saga as has every epoch and social class. -- Edmund White
My dream when I was 14 was someday I could have a David Levine caricature of me in 'The New York Review of Books.' -- Chris Hayes
I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books. -- Tom Peters
Those who are socially inclined will find a new power to help humanity through the lessons of books written by noble and gifted people. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time. -- Hayley Williams
I am a passionate reader.New interested books keep adding on my reading list. My wildest dream is to complete reading all the books. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
When I was publishing my first books, the previous generation of authors was fading away, so I was welcomed because I was a new author. -- Orhan Pamuk
If I have to go to New York or something, I'll bring my books and read and do homework. It's not really a big deal. -- Kara Hayward
The characters that populate my books are global nomads in their own right, keeping multiple homes around the world and constantly jet-setting to new places. -- Kevin Kwan
I keep an ongoing list of my fifty favorite books, which I recalibrate whenever I discover a new one that seems to demand a spot there. -- Kevin Brockmeier
All who have read a few old books have picked up the old tactics of considering every new idea a 'heresy' which must be rooted out. -- Lu Xun
The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than sitting down to write something new. -- Nick Cave
I read a lot of books. So, usually when I go home I try to re-charge my batteries and absorb new stories to become inspired again. -- Mia Wasikowska
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
I hope that readers will tear through my books because they can't stop themselves - and then, maybe, read them again and find new things there. -- Helen Dunmore
In every one of the 'Squickerwonker' books, we will explore a new Squickerwonker character and their vice and how their vice generally leads to their undoing. -- Evangeline Lilly
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred. -- John Podhoretz
Whether we're talking about books, music or film, it's all about storytelling. You get a powerful new way of connecting with people once you hear their stories. -- Craig Hatkoff
Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed accordingly should still be new. -- Oliver Goldsmith
What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that. -- Steven Johnson
I have discovered that enemies will buy your books as much as your fans buy your books because they're looking for something new to hate you for. -- Larry Winget
There are no new cash payments or obligations here. This is an accounting reflection of the deal they announced on Monday. It`s all by the books. -- Marc Cohn
If you haven't read 'In The Morning I'll Be Gone', I reckon it's a pretty good place to start if you're new to me and my books. -- Adrian McKinty
I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing. -- Adrian Tomine
Because making movies is such an expensive endeavor, other media such as books and comics have long been a more feasible way to experiment with truly new ideas. -- Anita Elberse
My philosophy on writing books is that if you learn only one new thing, or even get a new take on something you already know, it's worth it. -- James Scott Bell
The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. -- Richard Wright
It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour. -- Vartan Gregorian
The one constant in my life has been my love of books: reading them, thinking about them, talking about them, holding them, turning people on to new ones. -- Maria Semple
That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place. -- Val McDermid
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read. -- Fran Tarkenton
I try not to worry about rewriting books that worked well the first time. I'm too busy writing new books to worry about things that are already in print -- Laurell K. Hamilton
The books I read I do enjoy, very much; otherwise I wouldn't read them. Most of them are for review, for the New York Review of Books, and substantial. -- Joyce Carol Oates
I thought I would write non-fiction. I thought I would enter the New York literary scene as copy editor, work my way up, and then write my own books. -- Michael Gruber
Old books that we have known but not possessed cross our path and invite themselves over. New books try to seduce us daily with tempting titles and tantalizing covers. -- Alberto Manguel
I wouldn't get nearly as many books written if I lived in New York. The Columbia Gorge is fantastic. When the sun shines, I just want to be outdoors. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Why then, if these new books for children must be retained, as they will be, should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a school book ? -- Fisher Ames
I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Names are hard. I have a library of What to Name Your Baby books, and I'm always picking up new books, and books of baby names from other countries. I like cool-sounding names. -- George R. R. Martin

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