“You don't learn anything just by reading books. You learn only by receiving blows.” — Swami Prajnanpad Copy Share Image
Your people smarts will prove ten times more valuable than all the book smarts you can't get. — Barbara Corcoran Copy Share Image
In the greatest chapter in your book, are there pages where it hurts to look? — Blondie Copy Share Image
I want books to give me insight into the way people's brains work and hearts work, and that's what engages me. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I want a platform that, like a book or a magazine, I can carry into the bath or leave at the beach. — Walter Jon Williams Copy Share Image
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning. — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
I'm a bit of a book worm, so a lot of the songs I write are inspired by books. — Brooke Fraser Copy Share Image
I prefer reading e-books on a high resolution LCD screen - like the iPod Touch's - although the pixel density could and… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
We hope that audiences around the world embrace the picture in the same way they have the books and that hopefully Disney… — Jerry Bruckheimer Copy Share Image
The basic idea of a hero rising up to represent an oppressed or disenfranchised group of people is as true to hip-hop… — Ali Shaheed Muhammad Copy Share Image
My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
My books piled up before me for my use waiting in space where I placed them, they haven't disappeared, time's left its… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
You only had widespread literacy and books that people could afford in the middle of the 19th century. Did more people read… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
There are books in which the footnotes, or the comments scrawled by some reader's hand in the margin, are more interesting than… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
“What do you read? I read what friends tell me is good. This explains the book's success, partially. It got very good… — John Berendt Copy Share Image
There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I get letters from two kinds of readers. History buffs, who love to read history and biography for fun, and then kids… — Russell Freedman Copy Share Image
The philosophy which is so important in each of us is not a technical matter; it is our more or less dumb… — William James Copy Share Image
“Those who are coming from the gutters know that from time to time a piece of us will break off and float… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
Before I start a book, I talk over my characters with a friend who is a counselor. I like to make sure… — Chevy Stevens Copy Share Image
Corporation 2020 is an indispensable contribution to the global transformation of finance and corporations as humanity re-integrates centuries of knowledge and continues… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you wish to escape to another part of the book. You stop reading and riffle the pages, catching sight of the… — Thomas Wharton Copy Share Image
