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My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure for other people.
— Colleen McCullough
I don't want to sound pretentious, but I love art, I like to go to museums, and I like to read books.
— Rainn Wilson
A life without books is a thirsty life, and one without poetry is ... like a life without pictures.
— Stephen King
The shaping of taste is essentially the science of merchandising, whether of detergents or cars or books or objects of fine and decorative art.
— Russell Lynes
It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher.
— E.L. Konigsburg
I learned to read when I was three, so I skipped right over picture books and didn't learn to appreciate art in books until much later.
— Mitali Perkins
Without art; without paintings, books, sculpture and music, the human soul would be quite impenetrable, don't you think?
— Jonathan Hull
Supporting a creative artist can mean buying their books, music, art, movie, and photographs or just shouting out their name.
— Chris Mentillo
I have hundreds of art books and the biographies of artists I love, such as Thomas Eakins and Edgar Degas.
— Jamie Wyeth
We are creatures made as much by art as by experience and what we read in books is the sum of both.
— Andy Miller
Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.
— Jane Smiley
Nothing is what one thinks it is. Cloth is stone and circus is an art. There are no certainties.
— Walter Moers
Art needs to be socialised, and you need a lot of context to understand that, and that doesn't mean having read a few art history books.
— Peter M. Brant
What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.
— James Frey
And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.
— Andrew Miller
A book is a living breathing piece of art and you are just the person it chose to channel its story. Be humble.
— Lori Lesko
Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art.
— Peter H. Reynolds
Every year, humanity produces some 30,000 films, 2 million books and 100,000 albums, and 95 million people visit a museum or art gallery.
— Alain De Botton
Art, he said, isn't your little paintings and comic books. Art is the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs.
— Joey Comeau
Dirty Freds ... I love this filthy old place. I love the dust and the dirt, the crappy old books and the objects of art.
— Alan C. Martin
There is beauty in the art, and a story in the words! spk
— Susan Pace-Koch
While art thrives on the blazing colours of scandal, literature blossoms on the dark soil of tragedy.
— E.A. Bucchianeri
I'm a big illustration and comic book fan. In my eyes, comic books and illustration are the same kind of art forms.
— Mika.
I have tons of art books. I have them all over the place. They are in my car, in my bag, and in my studio. There are books around me all the time.
— Barry McGee
A paradox: The things you don't need to live - books, art, cinema, wine, and so on - are the things you need to live.
— Matt Haig
As I read you I fell in love with the holes between your words and I loved you most on the days you could not love yourself.
— Jenim Dibie
Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.
— George Henry Lewes
I owe it all to art books, chocolate and young men.
— Beatrice Wood
[P]art of the pleasure of engaging with a writer is unraveling some allusions and admitting defeat by others.
— Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
I get my inspiration from books, pictures, art. I might find a vintage scarf and say, "I think this should be our color palette."
— Jessica Simpson
Literature is the art of discovering something extraordinary about ordinary people, and saying with ordinary words something extraordinary.
— Boris Pasternak
Publishers are businesses and I don't blame them for that. If they didn't make money by publishing books, there wouldn't be any books.
— Johnny Rich
the best of Cervantes is untranslatable, and this undeniable fact is in itself an incentive [for one and all] to learn Spanish.
— Aubrey F.G. Bell
Things that bring out your emotions are what should be in theaters and in books. That's what art is. It makes you feel things.
— Dominique Swain
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos ... to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.
— John Cheever
I long ago ran out of bookshelf space and so, like a museum with its art, simply rotate my books from the boxes to the shelves and back again.
— Michael Dirda
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones.
— Irving Stone
There's been million-seller books and million-seller CDs. But there hasn't been, until now, million-seller art.
— Thomas Kinkade
The library was open for one hour after school let out. I hid there, looking at art books and reading poetry.
— Lynda Barry
The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art.
— Robertson Davies
I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
— Zayn Malik
Paris and Fashion. Books and Art. What would one be ... without the other?
— Peggy Kopman-Owens
Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.
— Gary D. Schmidt
Reading's not a luxury, art's not a luxury. It's about your soul, and it's about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury
— Jeanette Winterson
I have lots of passions - gardens, art, music and reading. I have eclectic taste and read a huge variety of books.
— Zoe Wanamaker
Books and movies are different art forms with different rules. And because of that, they never translate exactly.
— Tom Clancy
There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books.
— Charlie Chaplin
As for the common men apart, Who sweat to keep their common breath, And have no hour for books or art
What dreams have these to hide from death! — Lola Ridge
What dreams have these to hide from death! — Lola Ridge
Books work as an art form (and an economic one) because they are primarily the work of an individual.
— Seth Godin
I'm always hiding the books in my closet, and my art's always turned upside down in my drawer.
— Daniel Clowes