“It’s a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Look. All books are weird when you think about it… It goes without saying that real life is also weird. — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
“But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
I do read, but not as much as I'd like to. I take five books at once and just scan through them. — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Publishing a novel was such a proud thing for me. When I was a kid, I used to say to my mum… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
I think with every book you realize you are partway through and there is something really elementary that you should have researched. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
He was someone whom everyone admired and liked but whom nobody knew. He was like a book that you could feel good… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
My ideal viewer is an 11-year-old girl who, like me, was once reading a book by Jean Plaidy and might be in… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
The facts are - I did say I hoped it [Trans-Pacific Partnership] would be a good deal, but when it was negotiated… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
At the moment, I'm toying with a new idea for a book, but fully engaged with writing screenplays, so the book idea… — Rose Tremain Copy Share Image
Was it all inevitable, John?" Reeve was pushing his fingers across the floor of the cell, seated on his haunches. I was… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due… — G. M. Trevelyan Copy Share Image
There is, as every schoolboy knows in this scientific age, a very close chemical relation between coal and diamonds. It is the… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I'm happy to be a woman but much of it was learned over the course of life. Really thudded into me. You… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
When you write comic books and when you are writing for television, you're not writing the end product, you are writing notes… — Robert Kirkman Copy Share Image
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon, have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Over the four years we have made massive progress: winning the League Championship (97/98); building the largest club stadium in the UK… — Fergus McCann Copy Share Image
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its… — James Gleick Copy Share Image