History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

- Anatole France

I basically wrote five books with 'Night Soldiers,' called them novellas, and came in with a 600-page manuscript.

- Alan Furst

I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.

- Adrian Tomine

The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

- Aaron Swartz

In my books I try to tell a good story, not give messages.

- Avi

Books always help.

- Aung San Suu Kyi

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

All my books started out as extravagant and ended up pure and plain.

- Annie Dillard

I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.

- Anne Lamott

If I haven't any talent for writing books or newspaper articles, well, then I can always write for myself.

- Anne Frank

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

- Abraham Lincoln

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.

- Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

- Anatole France

I read a lot when I'm travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

- Amy Winehouse

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

- Alexander McQueen

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

Books are finished.

- Alejandro Jodorowsky

The proper study of mankind is books.

- Aldous Huxley

If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.

- Alan King

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.

- Alan King