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Though I loved books as a young boy, I loved sports even more. I wanted to be a quarterback in the CFL.

TV and film were always governing passions of mine, and that first wave of great HBO shows in the early years of the millennium was feeding my desire for fiction more than the books I was reading.

Together, they have been responsible for a remarkable number of distinctive books that have won critical acclaim and been hugely popular, sustaining big sellers.

To have been able to write the books I wanted to write, on demanding subjects like war and the history of psychiatry, and for them to have sold in the numbers they have - and then go around saying: 'Actually, I'd also like to have won the Costa Book of the Year?' That would be ridiculous.

You have to learn leadership through on-the-job experience, through successes and failures. But you can use books and experts to help you through those experiences.

You have to understand that while I pre-plot the meta story of a given book, I often have no idea of what will happen on the next page, let alone the next chapter. That's what makes it fun for me; I write the books the same way many people read them.

When I was twelve, Uncle Randall looked up long enough to see that I was a reader as well, so he walked me down his hall to a linen-closet door and opened it up onto a wall of paperbacks. There were books behind books, as deep in as I could reach. He told me to take three, and when I was done, bring them back and take three more.

We were optimistic when we wrote our initial plan, but we've vastly exceeded those expectations. The key thing we have done and the reason we have been success if we've focused entirely on creating a value proposition for the customer. Books are the best product to sell online,

What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story or tell more about the story, about how someone is thinking or feeling.

We spend anywhere from $2,000 to $3,500 each Wednesday on new comic books between both stores.

Through word of mouth a lot of people know who I am. Some people see me on the screen and read about me in books and magazines and know me from there.

Through the misguided notion that writing about flying was easy, I had McCone become a pilot. When I learned that research in books wasn't enough, I forced myself to take lessons.

What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory.

The printed word will be around long after many of our digital creations are gone, either because books don't require monthly hosting, and blogs and websites do... or because the languages and platforms for which a particular digital creation was published will become obsolete.

There are almost always books from each of our imprints that center around the theme of prayer in any season.

We understand and respect Florida is a tourism-based economy, ... We don't want to unnecessarily alarm anyone, but we think visitors should know what the law is on the books starting Saturday.

When I started writing, I thought the only way to write books that were set in the country was to go and look at the primroses on Putney Common.

When I started publishing books, I started looking at distribution and realized there were some things that need to be done. The Asian Review of Books is one.

We got real bright, colorful books that were some of the kids' favorites. Many of these kids don't have any books (of their own) at home. The earlier we can expose them to literature, the better. Getting them exposed to literature at an early age is probably the best thing we can do and what better way than to put one in their hands.

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

We saw there was a need, not to take over, but to expand. It's been fun and we're hoping that during the summer people will see there's something to read when they're picking up books for their children or grandchildren.

Vision is obviously an issue for baby boomers. If you make the books more readable, then some of the audience who have moved to larger formats will return.

We do often attract former teachers and other professionals who spend their lives around books and education. There is something very familiar to these employees about being surrounded by books, and their great life experiences often come into play when serving customers.

We think most publishers and authors will choose to participate in the publisher program in order to introduce their work to countless readers around the world. But we know that not everyone agrees, and we want to do our best to respect their views too. So now, any and all copyright holders . . . can tell us which books they'd prefer that we not scan if we find them in a library.

Virgin Books will be publishing an autobiography. But it is relatively early days. We still need to proceed to a final contract.

was at the time thought to be rather bold. Reading these books wasn't quite like being in a secret society or a clique. But it certainly made you feel different from a lot of people in Leeds and they did put you in touch with a wider world.

We count on a combination of user reviews and the author-provided summary and bio to give the browsing customer information to make a decision. But in the future, we want to provide a way for users to preview the books and implement a forum where consumers can query the authors and debate.

Books are made not like children but like pyramids and they're just as useless! And they stay in the desert! Jackals piss at their foot and the bourgeois climb up on them.

Books are long. Even mine. You don't want to feel bad about them as you're writing them.

Books . . . are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

Books are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creators of odd volumes.

Books written by boys are given very different treatment to those written by girls: they're even given very different covers. People also expect, in this YA-booming world, girls to be less experimental than boys: girls are achieving a lot of success, but they're confined.

Books which satisfy us and feed us and nourish us have to have this substratum of genuine truth in them, ... And I don't see much of that in most fantasy.

Books that are out of print frequently come back in print. A university press or a smaller house may bring it back, or it may come back when the author publishes a new book with a major publisher.

Books speak more to a female audience than does his music so these novels give him an opportunity to show, particularly his female fans, another side.

Books on travel are also good: the best being the kind of writing and pictures to inspire an escape or, at the very least, a flight of fancy.

Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.

Books last a really long time if you take care of them.

Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.

Books have been handed down from generation to generation, as the true teachers of piety and the love of God, that represent him as so merciless and tyrannical a despot, that, if they were considered otherwise than through the medium of prejudice, they could inspire nothing but hatred. It seems that the impression we derive from a book, depends much less on its real contents, than upon the temper of mind and preparation with which we read it.

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

Books for teens are amazing and compelling, I think, because they're generally set in a time in people's lives when they are uncertain about who they are and who they love and what the right thing is to do.

Books didn't figure in my family very much. . . . However, my grandmother's attic was full of old, old books . . . In the summers we would go to North Dakota to visit her, and I would get in that attic and read everything in sight. That's when the passion started. I was maybe eight or nine.

Books cannot always please, however good;/ Minds are not ever craving for their food.

Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which othermen have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.

Books are special -- they communicate with us directly, ... movies are made by a bunch of people for a larger bunch of people.

Books are provided by the Reading is Fundamental program.

Before I was published, I thought men read car manuals or books about football. But once I started having really serious conversations with male lovers of literature, I let go of that prejudice.

Every time I open her door, she's there on her bed with all her books spread out everywhere. She studies all the time.

Between the time I was 16 until I was about 20, the books I read were by people like Thomas Mann, James Baldwin, Thom Gunn, Elizabeth Bishop. All gay, of course, although I swear I didn't know that at the time. Yet all of them, it turned out, had had a parent who died during their childhood. Sexuality is nothing compared to that.

Bill Ponder has helped me a lot by bringing books and others are going to donate books, too. The cash donations will be used to finish a series and I would really like to get more youth and children's books.

Every generation likes to think that children don't read as much as they used to when they were young! You listen to some adults saying they were going around reading 'Ulysses' when they were seven or eight! I think children are voracious readers if you give them the right books and if you make those books accessible to them.

Every class is a little bit different. Some classes are relying primarily on a service, where you need a password to get to it. Some classes' teachers are using electronic text books as a resource - not as a primary tool but as a resource and then a lot of our classes are relying very heavily on simply free material that is available on the internet.

Every child is different. I think it's important that we don't have maybe just one or two books that we're recommending to all children - but rather we cater the books to fit each individual child.

As the audience has gotten older in time, faithful readers of the Potter books will remain faithful to the movies,

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore

A truce to your volumes, your studies, give o'er: for books cannot teach you love's marvelous lore

At the time the books were released, I was in custody, so I had higher priorities - dealing with my criminal case - than dealing with litigation. There's a lot of information out there that is inaccurate.

Divorce has become more commonplace in the popular culture - among celebrities and even public figures. And we tend to take our cues from news, movies, books and magazines. The whole feeling about divorce has shifted from one of abhorrence to acceptable.

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

Documentary has become a kind of new space in the culture. A lot of the films are about social concerns, and in a way, are a new form of media. . . . Making a documentary has become sort of trendy, a little like what writing children's books was a few years ago. But what I've noticed is, once documentary filmmakers get locked in, they really get locked in. They may have started off thinking they're going to do something relatively quick and casual, and then it takes them over.

Consumers start out with books and as they become more comfortable buying on the Internet, they climb the average selling price ladder. Before you know it, they?re buying expensive jewelry on the Internet.

Crosswords were a mania in the 1920s when the first books appeared and a lot of people thought they would come and go.

Cooking, decorating, diet/self-help and gardening books are guilty pleasures and useful time fillers.

And you know, life is a constant learning experience. I learn so much with my kids. I read tons of books and study what they're studying.

European car sales went absolutely bananas in 1998, breaking all previous records, and German companies are still relying on order books built up last year.

Even being remembered in history books keeps one's memory alive only for a while-if not in the memories of the masses, at least in the minds of scholars,

Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.

First of all, we wanted to be faithful to the two books that inspired Jose Rivera's screenplay and to the spirit of the original journey.

Far more books get written about how to get more people in your church than how to get the people already in your church to have more humility and sincere love.

Few and far between are the books you'll cherish, returning to them time and again, to revisit old friends, relive old happiness, and recapture the magic of that first read.

There's probably 1,400 or 1,500 comic book items on the site at any time. It remains a very popular area of the site. I'm sure people buy and sell comic books the same way they do stocks, other securities or fine wine.

There's something about the air and the sky and the atmosphere in the South of France that must be very conducive to work, to being creative, because I have written several of my books there. I find it so much easier because you're cut off. If you don't want to speak to anybody, basically they don't know where you are. And it's so beautiful.

There's no short cuts. There's no books you can read to solve this thing.

There's no doubt German firms are doing exceptionally well: order books are full to the brim and business confidence is at levels not seen since reunification. But they haven't started hiring yet. They know that in 2007 a very large fiscal tightening is envisaged, so this could be a short-lived rise in demand.

There's now an avalanche of poker books coming out. We have a reputation for putting out the very best books and we have no competitors in that respect. We're not putting out trivial books. These are like textbooks.

There's now an avalanche of poker books coming out,

I started to read at a very early age, and I just thought that books and reading were really the most wonderful thing that life had to offer. I think I wrote my very first piece of fiction at the age of 12, but then I didn't write any more for quite a long time.

I stayed at 'Cosmo' well beyond my internship, moving up the ranks over some 15 years to become books editor, then brand director, then editor-at-large - editing everything from an excerpt of Gore Vidal's memoir to writing some of those juicy cover lines myself.

I started reading seriously at seven or eight, books about myths and legends, the Narnia series. By the time I was 11, I had read all the children's books in my local library, so I moved on to 'Jane Eyre.' What I loved about Jane Eyre was that she didn't rely on her looks but her character. She had a spirit nobody could break.

I spend one-tenth of my salary almost every month. I think good books are more important than beautiful school rooms.

I started fact checking and copy-editing, basic stuff. Then I started writing books and articles, and left in 1999. I've been working freelance ever since and moved here three years ago.

I see this as a way for local writers to celebrate and sell some of the books which we have produced. And with all these creative energies, it should be exciting.

I shy away from showing cruelty on the page. A lot of the violence in my books actually happens off stage. The police come on to the scene after the event has occurred.

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

I understand that books can be a real financial pinch for students, but buying a quality book, and spending a lot of time with it, is one of the best habits you can have in life. I still have a lot of my textbooks, especially from law school, and they are very valuable to me.

I used to read music books when I was 13. My mom was working at a library. She's a librarian. I would get my mom to check out any kind of books that had anything to do with the music industry. I read a lot about royalities, publishing, marketing, stuff like that.

I used to buy scented poetry books on tour and read aloud to the band. Not what you'd expect, huh?

Things like taking her math books to English class.

The rule has been on the books a number of years and only been enforced sporadically at best, to our knowledge. We think this exceeds what is reasonable in governing the conduct of players on the court.

I've seen so many photographers rush to do books the minute they start shooting, but one great thing about photography is that the images don't go away, so the more I sit with these images, the more I learn which ones have had the most impact.

I've said all along that we have three or four ordinances on the books now that have been utilized effectively, ... and we also utilize the state fire code in addition to that.

I've never read any of the '50 Shades of Grey' books because the Internet pre-educated me about the 'my inner goddess is doing the merengue with some salsa moves' material.

I've read many books of blacks who grew up in a white family, and the majority acknowledge that they had opportunities they may not have had with their birth families. The less successful families appeared to be those who didn't integrate more with African Americans.

I've only cried at one book, but I'm too embarrassed to tell you which. It wasn't terribly intellectual. I will admit, though, to crying when I've read books aloud to my elementary class. We read a biography of Gandhi once, and it was very difficult to read the part where Gandhi was killed, because they were waiting for a happy ending.

It was there in the hall that I began drawing Captain Underpants, ... Soon I was making my own comic books about him.