I wouldn't mind writing a long book which is going to occupy me for the rest of my life. — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Plant trees. They give us two of the most crucial elements for our survival: oxygen and books. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To tell the truth, I don't read children's books. I'm an adult. I just write them. — William Steig Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with this book 'Independent People,' by Halldor Laxness. — Torrey Peters Copy Share Image
I grew up a big comic book reader, as a kid, and I love the whole fanboy crowd. — Joe Manganiello Copy Share Image
Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I love to cook. But I'm a bit rubbish. I tend to start something and then dip into a book or have… — Isla Fisher Copy Share Image
“Since I picked up my first book, I have been reading about amazing discoveries, intrepid explorers, and fantastic creatures, all while scarcely… — William Ritter Copy Share Image
“My interest in books started as a child. I had a voracious appetite for reading. It’s my mom’s fault really, because she… — Catherine Cruzan Copy Share Image
Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I always loved animals. And when I was ten, I decided I had to go to Africa and live with animals and… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I was always a reader. In the fifth grade, I got some sort of prize for having read hundreds of books from… — Vijay Seshadri Copy Share Image
I was coming off of The O.C. and had very little interest in doing another teen drama. And then I got sent… — Josh Schwartz Copy Share Image
The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Patience, grasshopper," I counseled. "You don't want to seem overeager." "Right, that's why I said tomorrow," he said. "I want to see… — John Green Copy Share Image
FOAM OF THE DAZE is a novel like no other, a sexy, innocent, smart and sweet cartoon of a world which then… — Jim Krusoe Copy Share Image
Juanita Rose Violini's Almanac of the Infamous, the Incredible and the Ignored is delightfully odd, wonderfully weird, and anything but normal. Filled… — Jeff Belanger Copy Share Image
It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
In many ways we've become the Babylon of the modern era. We learned our lessons at the feet of Nebuchadnezzar himself. It's… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
Back in my days as a children's book editor, my superiors caught on to the fact that teenagers were using the Internet… — Cecily von Ziegesar Copy Share Image
Well, the whole story is in the book, but the short answer is that I was the first information architect in an… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
"The diary, "My diary. Little Ginny's been writing in it for months and months, telling me all her pitiful worries and woes… — Tom Riddle Copy Share Image
I wrote my first book without being to Ethiopia since I was two years old. — Dinaw Mengestu Copy Share Image
I grew up reading 'Sense and Sensibility' and 'Pride and Prejudice' - girly kind of books. — Leighton Meester Copy Share Image
“A good book will pull you in from the beginning and take you on a journey you'll never forget.” — Lauren Hammond Copy Share Image
People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory. — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I seek in the reading of books, only to please myself, by an honest diversion. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A second book that makes you rethink the first book is the Holy Grail of a series. — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I'm pretty open book, I'm also the kind of person that will say, 'That's none of your business,' too. — Ice T Copy Share Image
Wealth is walking into any bookshop and buying any book you want without looking at the price tag. — John Waters Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
