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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books. -- Edward Abbey
Cookbooks bear the same relation to real books that microwave food bears to your grandmother?s. -- Andrei Codrescu
I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way. -- Susan Orlean
I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too. -- Gary Shteyngart
She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom. -- David Lubar
I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world of growth and suffering where the real books are people's minds and souls. -- Sylvia Plath
Paperbacks weren't considered real books in the book trade. Up till then it was just murder mysteries, potboilers, 25-cent pocket books sold in newsstands. When the New York publishers started publishing quality paperbacks, there was no place to buy them. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights. -- C. S. Lewis
An animal that is very abundant, before it gets extinct, it becomes rare. So you don't lose abundant animals. You always lose rare animals. Therefore, they're not perceived as a big loss. -- Daniel Pauly
Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know. -- Steve Irwin
There will always be vain, obsessive people who want to own rare and extraordinary things whatever the cost; there will always be people for whom owning beautiful, dangerous animals brings a sense of power and magic. -- Susan Orlean
When a woman drinks it's as if an animal were drinking, or a child. Alcoholism is scandalous in a woman, and a female alcoholic is rare, a serious matter. It's a slur on the divine in our nature. -- Marguerite Duras
Ageing is very rare. We only see it in humans and laboratory animals and in zoo animals and in our pets. Basically, organisms that are protected from the external world. Once you create that protection, you live long enough to see ageing. -- S. Jay Olshansky
I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within. -- William Jackson
Real men read my books. -- Wilbur Smith
Nothin's real scary except in books. -- Harper Lee
The real bombs are my books, not me. -- Carlos Fuentes
Man's real genius and knowledge remains preserved in books -- Albert Pike
The real war will never get in the books. -- Walt Whitman
I suppose books are my real passion in life. -- John Boyne
Books are more real when you read them outside. -- Maggie Stiefvater
People are living books. The real library of life is community. -- Bryant H. McGill
Men are more interesting in books than they are in real life. -- Mary Ann Shaffer
As useful as websites and journals are, there's real value in books, too. -- Jamais Cascio
Books are a real solace, friendships are good but action is better than all. -- John Burns
Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw. -- David Mitchell
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. -- Christopher Morley
Books are like truth serum-- if you don't read, you can't figure out what's real. -- Rodman Philbrick
Books are for those without real lives, he thought. And they are no real replacement. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books. -- Christina Dodd
Unrequited love is all right in books and things, but in real life, it completely sucks -- Meg Cabot
Every reader knows about the feeling that characters in books seem more real than real people. -- Cornelia Funke
There is so much goodness in real life- do let us keep it out of our books. -- Norman Douglas
I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. -- Ann Richards
I've done a lot of movies based on real people, real situations, non-fiction books, magazine articles, life rights. -- Scott Rudin
My goal is to write books that are quality books with very real characters and a gripping plot. -- John Searles
I have read some great books recently: "Heaven is For Real," "Bud Not Buddy," and my favorite, "Tiger Eyes." -- Coco Jones
I'm not really sure which parts of myself are real and which parts are things I've gotten from books. -- Beatrice Sparks
I've always been a fan of just extreme things. Whether it be in movies, books, TV or real life. -- Rob Zombie
I didn't have time for talent shows and stuff like that. I was into books and studying real hard. -- Cheryl Lynn
I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil. -- Voltaire
Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold. -- Esther Forbes
Look. All books are weird when you think about it.... It goes without saying that real life is also weird. -- Kelly Link
Just as money is not real, consumable wealth, books are not life. To idolize scriptures is like eating paper currency. -- Alan Watts
The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books. -- David Edelstein
Books are for the most part willfully and hastily written, as parts of a system to supply a want real or imagined. -- Henry David Thoreau
Conducting! A subject, truly, concerning which much might be written, yet scarcely anything of real importance is to be found in books. -- Anton Seidl
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books -- Steve Spurrier
If you don't remember childhood and you idealize it, you can't write books for kids because they're not real. Kids pick that up. -- Robert Munsch
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of meeting me. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
There's a convention that books are mirrors of the real world, but our fact-obsessed age also wants fiction to be factually based and trustworthy. -- Jim Crace
Children know perfectly well that unicorns aren't real, but they also know that books about unicorns, if they are good books, are true books. -- Ursula K. Le Guin
It would be nice to design a real briefcase - you open it up and it's your computer but it also stores your books. -- Steve Wozniak
It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books. -- Italo Calvino
Magic has universal appeal. I don't believe in magic in the way that I describe in my books, but I'd love it to be real. -- J. K. Rowling
I've only written one science-fiction book: 'Fahrenheit 451.' That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books. -- Ray Bradbury
Melissa Foster is a wonderful connector of readers and books, a friend of authors, and a tireless advocate for women. She is the real deal. -- Jennie Shortridge
The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books -- Theodore Roosevelt
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect. -- Garth Greenwell
I love theme parks but I'm a real chicken on rides. I'd rather invent scary rides for my books than go on them for real. -- R. L. Stine
Their house had real hardcover books in it, and you often saw them lying open on the sofa, the words still warm from being read. -- David Sedaris
I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life. -- Claire Tomalin
All writers believe in the magic of books; Jim Hines has created a system where that magic becomes real, usable, and very definitely not always safe. -- Tanya Huff
I do not hesitate to read. all good books in translations. What is really best in any book is translatable-any real insight or broad human sentiment. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life. -- Maureen Corrigan
The real problem with happiness is neither its pursuers nor their books; it's happiness itself. Happiness is like beauty: part of its glory lies in its transience. -- Amy Bloom
Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity? -- Cesar Chavez
Self-improvement books, friends, and polite strangers often tell soothing lies about our physical appearance that prevent many of us from facing, discussing, and solving our real problems. -- Martha Beck
Prolonged travel in the alternate world of books can also make a reader more prone to fantasy thinking and estranged from his or her "real" life. -- Maureen Corrigan
I'm into video games, but only real specific lame video games. In a more traditional nerd sense, I just read lots of books and I enjoyed school. -- Emily Browning
I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers. -- Thomas Perry
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Mr. Arthur Ashe, he was good. I read some of his books. He knew about everything, but he was real quiet and didn't talk much. I never met him. -- Mike Tyson
I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life. -- Anne Tyler
She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if she likes them better than human company. -- Cornelia Funke
First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain anything physically for their money. -- Jack L. Chalker
Do the children who prefer books set in the real, ordinary, workaday world ever read as obsessively as those who would much rather be transported into other worlds entirely? -- Laura Miller
Books to judicious compilers, are useful; to particular arts and professions, they are absolutely necessary; to men of real science, they are tools: but more are tools to them. -- Samuel Johnson
I have loved many men, but only one in real life. All of the other men who have ever stolen my heart in more than friendship, are in books. -- Alyse M. Gardner

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