To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost. — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
If you cannot say what you have to say in twenty minutes, you should go away and write a book about it. — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara Copy Share Image
I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
“the thing about books is, there are quite a number you don't have to read.” — Donald Barthelme Copy Share Image
A book does not make bad jokes, drink too much or eat more than you can afford to pay for. — Kenneth Turan Copy Share Image
Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest. — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
There is a difference between a book of two hundred pages from the very beginning, and a book of two hundred pages… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing; every one must be an… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I put the book down and went to the window. I stared at my reflection and the trees behind it for a… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
In my case, the long gaps between my books have got quite a lot to do with lack of confidence. A lot… — Wendy Cope Copy Share Image
I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
In times of storm and tempest, of indecision and desolation, a book already known and loved makes better reading than something new… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
Having a record company and putting out my own CD. There's clothes and shoes. There's also an upcoming book deal that I'm… — Metta World Peace Copy Share Image
The connections I draw between human nature and political systems in my new book, for example, were prefigured in the debates during… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The best moments in reading are when you come across something - a thought, a feeling, a way of looking at things… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I do think that the Josianic return to the archaic form of the Passover is appropriate and, indeed, historical. Josiah does go… — Frank Moore Cross Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious spirit which hovers over the production of genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building.… — David Blaine Copy Share Image
Anybody who can afford a box of business cards can afford a Web site. Any company with an 800 number can move… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
... your spiritual teachers caution you against enquiry--tell you not to read certain books; not to listen to certain people; to beware… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
“A writer reports on the universe. When he presents his credentials, the gates of heaven and hell are equally opened to him.… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
How glad the heathens would have been, That worship idols, wood and stone, If they the book God had seen. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
What more do I need to say? Conservative books sell. I can't help it if liberal books don't sell. — Newt Gingrich Copy Share Image
I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women. — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Let us read thoughtfully; this is a great secret in the right use of books. — George Gilfillan Copy Share Image
You'll never go to the library and find a book on how to fail, because we all do it. — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
People don't come out for book events. They want to feel an emotion and be entertained. — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
“Books are but dead bodies to you, and a library nothing but a catacomb!” — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book does not make you an authority or an expert. Authorship doesn’t not equal authority.” — Loren Weisman Copy Share Image
I read the book of Job last night, I don't think God comes out well in it. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Yes, it’s true that you can’t learn everything from books. But you do learn something about everything.” — Jessica Zafra Copy Share Image
There is no book so poor that it would not be a prodigy if wholly made by a single man. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For each book, I do end up making a kind of playlist to fit the characters. — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
In my books you have to concentrate, but I work hard to make it that, when you do, the rewards are quite… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Either way, you wrote the book and now you’re complaining about the reviews I’m giving it,” I quipped.” — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
