Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The beauty of literature is you allow readers to see things through other peoples eyes. All good books do this. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Mystery books. I must read a hundred a year. . . I just wish some of them were harder to figure out. — Martin Cruz Smith Copy Share Image
I don't think there was a particular book that made me want to write. They all did. I always wanted to write. — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin? — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
“It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.” — T.S. Eliot Copy Share Image
I do not think anyone can read War and Peace too much. I read it six times... — Maxwell Perkins Copy Share Image
People tell me they laughed hard enough to wake their spouses, that they've given away numerous copies to friends, and that it's… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
When I was researching my book 'The 33 Strategies of War', I studied Napoleon extensively and I found myself wanting to ask… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
“Distrust the book which reads too easily because such writing appeals more to the senses than to the intellect. Hard reading exercises… — John P. Marquand Copy Share Image
What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
You can know everything that the books have to say, but ultimately it boils down to whether we do the inner work… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The first black girl book I fell in love with was most likely 'Please, Puppy, Please' by Spike Lee and Tonya Lee. — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
People have invoked the ghost of Hemingway quite a few times in writing about the book. I could get into sticky territory… — Ron Currie Jr Copy Share Image
My books and other works are my legacy, and it's a great comfort to know that mine is a legacy of pleasure… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
If you can just focus on creating your art whether that's music or writing a book or painting trust me it is… — Butch Vig Copy Share Image
The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
I can read books and news articles about people who have excelled, people who have done extremely well in their chosen field,… — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
For me, I never knew what addiction was. I just knew my heroes, like [New York Dolls guitarist] Johnny Thunders, did heroin.… — Nikki Sixx Copy Share Image
Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I love outsider stories. And I also like a lot of genre fiction, too. So I wanted to write a literary book… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
The decor bowled me over. Everywhere I looked, there was something more to see. Botanical prints, a cross section of pomegranates, a… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
The Bible is not a book of principles to live by but rather a Person to live for. — Mark Driscoll Copy Share Image
“The book is open, spine cracked, abused in a way no one with respect for paper should ever do.” — Erika Swyler Copy Share Image
I was so long writing my review that I never got around to reading the book. — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered. — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
“The book to read is not the one that thinks for you but the one which makes you think.” — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
There are books . . . which rank in our life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
“It’s a book which, no matter how many readers it will ever have, will never have enough.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You who think of us: they lived only in delusion... Know that we the People of the Book, will never die! — Czeslaw Milosz 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
When I write a novel, I have what I think of as an icon that helps get me into the world of… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
![“The book[ The Thorn and The Blossom] is a love story about two people, Brendan and Evelyn, who meet in a small town in Cornwall where Evelyn has gone on vacation and Brendan is working in his father's bookstore. The story is told from both perspectives, Brendan's and Evelyn's.” quote by Theodora Goss](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/341/theodora-goss-10051_blossom_the-book-the-thorn-and-the-blossom-is-a_3173603.jpg)
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