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The concentration in my book on Marie Antoinette's childhood and on her family influences. It is surprising how some books actually start with her arrival in France!

Antonia Fraser

Family

Books

Childhood

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

I wrote two plotted books, got some of the fundamentals of storytelling down, then... it's sort of like taking the training wheels off, trying to write a book that's fun in the same way without relying on quite such mechanical or external beats.

History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.

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

Books

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.

Anatole France

Books

I'm the biggest nerd - I love comic books and stuff like that! I don't have any friends who are actresses. I only had one girlfriend when I was growing up. Most of my friends were boys. I was such a tomboy. I enjoyed doing guy things.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books. Why, except for some special reason, read an inferior book, at the very time you might be reading one of the highest order?

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.

E. M. Forster

Books

Influence

At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.

When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask.

I have personally seen statements that were longer than some books I have read.

Wendell H. Ford

Books

I teethed on books of heroes such as Winston Churchill, Abraham Lincoln and King David.