I can't imagine having the courage to ask a publisher to do a whole book of my poems. — Frederick Busch Copy Share Image
Don't close a book you are reading until you read every word that was not written. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When a new book comes out or becomes accessible in whatever form, I get it and I read it. — Christoph Waltz Copy Share Image
Books bear him up a while, and make him try to swim with bladders of philosophy. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
I'd love a signed first edition of 'City of Glass' by Paul Auster. My favourite book of all time. — Steven Hall Copy Share Image
I enjoy adapting my own work, or anybody's work. I like to adapt books. — Joseph Wambaugh Copy Share Image
Thank God for books and music and things I can think about." --Charlie Gordan — Daniel Keyes Copy Share Image
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw… — Sidney Altman Copy Share Image
When I interviewed Paul Bremer in his office, he had almost no books on his shelves. He had a couple of management… — George Packer Copy Share Image
... garden books are quite unconscious that besides telling us how to turn our patch of earth into a garden, they are… — Nan Fairbrother Copy Share Image
What a feat of transmission: the emotive powers of the book, with no local habitation, pass safely from writer to reader, unmangled… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
The Holy Koran, our religious book, teaches us, that we who declare ourselves to be righteous Muslims, do not participate in no… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic… — James Marsters Copy Share Image
If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Milla Jovovich introduced me to [anthropologist and author of the Don Juan series of books involving shamanic peyote rituals] Carlos Castaneda because… — Michelle Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I'd say the purest experience for the movie is not to have read the book because I think when you've read the… — Zack Snyder Copy Share Image
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Twenty years ago, when I started writing, I didn't define myself as an African-American writer. And then you write books and you're… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
Futurity is impregnable to mortal ken: no prayer pierces through heaven's adamantine walls. Whether the birds fly right or left, whatever be… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
I would make up [Theodor] Seuss-like books at night when I was cleaning up from the dinner, you know, putting these little… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
Maybe that's the foundation of my book: how do we come to terms with the death of someone we love when it… — Leslie Pietrzyk Copy Share Image