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Used books are the sluts of the literary world. Passed around from person to person, spreading their pages for anyone, getting cheaper and cheaper until eventually they end up in prison. -- Stephen Colbert
I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be equally annoying to future readers, and avoid making them. -- J. Robert Lennon
Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions of popular textbooks every three to four years, in a classic cycle of planned obsolescence. -- James Surowiecki
I used to have weird practices in crowded used-book stores in New York where I'd go in and just stomp my foot and see what fell from the shelf. And of course, because it's an unexpected encounter, there's always some magic that comes from it. -- Saul Williams
I was 8 years old when I went across the street from my house to a fair, and they always had a used book sale. For a quarter I bought a book called 'Come On Seabiscuit.' I loved that book. It stayed with me all those years -- Laura Hillenbrand
As I got older, I discovered that nothing within me cried out for a baby. My womb did not seem to have come equipped with that famously ticking clock. Unlike so many of my friends, I did not ache with longing whenever I saw an infant. (Though I did ache with longing, it is true, whenever I saw a good used-book shop) -- Elizabeth Gilbert
I used to have all the Goosebumps books as a kid too. -- Tom Felton
I used to read Gore Vidal books and think I was cool. -- Matt Smith
Friends should be like books, easy to find when you need them, but seldom used. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes. -- Len Wiseman
My mom used to tell me, 'If you read 50 books, I'll get you a motorbike.' -- Orlando Bloom
As a kid, I used to go to the library and take out all the art books. -- Cheech Marin
I used to like reading and you read enough books and you overflow and then you start writing. -- Terry Pratchett
Look at comic books. It used to be something that only geeks were into. And now it's everywhere. -- Eli Roth
We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore. -- Rose Troche
I used to love comic books, and I love American comedy, and neither are afraid to tackle big themes. -- Jamie Hewlett
Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books. -- Alan King
Books fall open, you fall in. When you climb out again, you're a bit larger than you used to be. -- Gregory Maguire
I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh? -- Suzi Quatro
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill! -- Wilkie Collins
My father died when I was quite small, so my uncle used to buy me books and read them to me. -- Jenny Nimmo
Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Comic books and The Chronicles of Narnia. My mother used to read those to me and my twin brother growing up. -- Shawn Ashmore
I had to learn chord shapes. I bought books with chord charts. I used to listen to all kinds of pop music. -- Mick Taylor
I want those young whipper-snappers to know that in days past we actually used to kill trees and make those things called books. -- Eric Jerome Dickey
In fact, I was too dumb to save any of the old comic books or the old artwork. I used to give them away. -- Stan Lee
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts. -- Kajol
I'm a books person. Yes, I have a Kindle. I used it for an hour and a half and put it in the closet. -- Andrew Wylie
We're taking requests from customers who are looking for certain used copies. We already found 18 to 20 Louis L'Amour books that were on a customer's request list. -- Andrew Goodman
Knowledge exists in minds, not in books. Before what has been found can be used by practitioners, someone must organize it, integrate it, extract the message -- Kenneth E. Boulding
I've read a lot of bad books. I used to review books for a living, and when you're a reviewer you read tons of terrible books. -- John Green
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there. -- Myrtle Reed
Chess books should be used as we use glasses: to assist the sight, although some players make use of them as if they thought they conferred sight -- Jose Raul Capablanca
My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together. -- Laurence Housman
When I was a kid, I used to be way more nerdy about comic books and comic book characters. I still love them, but I don't collect anymore. -- Zachary Levi
When I look for self-help books for myself, I used to be scared that I was going to pick up a book that would depress me even more. -- Vinny Guadagnino
I used to get a haircut every Saturday so I would never miss any of the comic books. I had practically no hair when I was a kid! -- R. L. Stine
I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do. -- Bill Murray
I used to be very disciplined about only buying three books ahead of what I was reading, but my husband corrupted me, and now I'm dozens ahead of myself! -- Gretchen Rubin
It's true, too, that I'm tired of using books as political bullets and grenades. Books are too precious and wonderful to be used for long in such a fashion. -- Yann Martel
The White House used to belong to the American people. At least that's what I learned from history books and from covering every president starting with John F. Kennedy. -- Helen Thomas
Just looking at pictures used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. -- Jon Scieszka
Just looking at pictures' used to be considered cheating. No longer. The graphic novel is booming. Comics, heavily illustrated texts, books with no words are now accepted as reading. -- Jon Scieszka

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