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Why is it, that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard? -- Malala Yousafzai
Why is it that countries which we call strong are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy, but giving books is so hard? -- Malala Yousafzai
I love to both give and receive very old books. -- Augusten Burroughs
Don't give me books for Christmas; I already have a book. -- Jean Harlow
Actually, between books is precisely when I do give myself vacations. -- Jerry Spinelli
In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages. -- Avi
Writing children's books gives a writer a very strong sense of narrative drive. -- Helen Dunmore
Youth is a time when we find the books we give up but do not get over. -- Lionel Trilling
I write reviews of science books for the Boston Globe, so I like to give science books. -- Anthony Doerr
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. -- Dean Koontz
Some of my friends are giving me law books. I love reading those. It's like my relaxation. -- Charice Pempengco
Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
Books! I dunno if I ever told you this, but books are the greatest gift one person can give another. -- Bono
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working. -- Sean Lennon
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture. -- Alejandro Jodorowsky
Shakespeare is one of the last books one should like to give up, perhaps the one just before the Dying Service in a large Prayer book. -- Charles Lamb
Books are my very favorite gift to give. If you give a book to someone and they really respond to it, you feel you've actually changed their life in some way. -- Jeannette Walls
I do screen work, adult books, kids books and comic stuff, which gives me a pretty full plate. The problem is usually choosing which one I want to work on next. -- Chris Wooding
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
This is what I believe is most important: getting good books into the hands of kids - books that will make them want to say, 'Wow, that was great. Give me another one to read.' -- James Patterson
I don't give books as gifts. Books are extremely personal, and I would hate to give someone a book that they don't like or want, because it would break my heart if they didn't read it. -- Meg Cabot
What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have. -- Kathy Reichs
Keeping libraries open, giving access to all children to all books is vital to our nation's sovereignty. -- Karin Slaughter
Never loan a book to someone if you expect to get it back. Loaning books is the same as giving them away. -- Douglas Coupland
I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered. -- Sloane Crosley
I try to teach my students that books are a mirror, reflecting their own lives, and a window, giving them a peek into someone else's. -- Donalyn Miller
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People will insist on giving me books. -- J. K. Rowling

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