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Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

John Dingell

Books

Destruction

Living

The future? Like unwritten books and unborn children, you don't talk about it.

Dietrich Fischer Dieskau

Self-help books are for the birds. Self-help groups are where it's at.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Charles Dickens

Books

Every well-written book is a light for me. When you write, you use other writers and their books as guides in the wilderness.

I didn't start working on children's books until I got a job at a book warehouse on the children's floor. When I started reading some of the books, I was so impressed.

The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!

Nigel Dennis

Work

Books

The language of my books has shaped me as a man.

I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted to write books.

About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be illegal if it was a regulated market, and of course they do not want to regulate it.

The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books.

Dan DeCarlo

Books

First

In other words, the people who populate my books are more than caricatures.

Hardcover books are fairly expensive these days and to read one requires a significant commitment of time in our busy society. So I want to make sure that when readers buy one of my books they get something they're familiar with.