“A generation who is only good at putting books on shelves as decorations.” — Muradous Copy Share Image
Why will people go astray when they have this blessed Book to guide them? — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
In my experience, every book you write changes the conditions in which you write the next. — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
No book is of much importance; the vital thing is, What do you yourself think? — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“here is my last book! give a look http://it.20lines.com/bigjump/read/98... ” — Simona Garbarini Copy Share Image
A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought. — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
You look so good," I say, and s***! Oh god, that's not what I meant. S***! "It looks good. The book. — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
I've adjusted to this, that my books are not going to get unanimously good reviews. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I… — Jeff Pearlman Copy Share Image
“Each and every decision you make, regardless of its level of intensity, is vitally important as you seek to do God’s will.” — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
There are many horrible sights in the multiverse. Somehow, though, to a soul attuned to the subtle rhythms of a library, there… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
As a speaker, I can inspire people to change but as a writer I can guide people to change. That's why books… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
I was thinking, "So, I’m Emperor, am I? What nonsense! But at least I'll be able to make people read my books… — Robert Graves Copy Share Image
Your criticism sounds to me as if you have read too many critical books and are too smart in an artificial, destructive,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
"Books ... books, ..." he exclaims. It is those that teach us to refine on our pleasures when young, and which, having… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I was really surprised at the success of 'House of Sand and Fog,' because it is so awfully dark. Believe it or… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Some people spend their entire lives devoted to a religion that claims to be the ‘right’ religion... they often deny scientific evidence… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
When an editor works with an author, she cannot help seeing into the medicine cabinet of his soul. All the terrible emotions,… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
I began researching and writing what I intended as a book-length essay entitled Fascination and Liberation, exploring the question of whether there… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“This book is for everyone who has survived. You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel… — Jessica Park Copy Share Image
It's just a weird idea to me because each book is a complete universe unto itself, so why would I want this… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
“Reading is a dialog with oneself; it is self-reflection, which cultivates profound humanity. Reading is therefore essential to our development. It expands… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
The book forces itself into my mind when I am lugging furniture, or pulling weeds. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
People who don't normally read make an exception for my books, possibly because they're short. — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Having your book turned into a movie is like seeing your oxen turned into bouillon cubes. — John le Carre Copy Share Image
There is no book on which we can rest in a dying moment but the Bible. — John Selden Copy Share Image
I like to have books around to give me ideas-to get the verbal part of my brain to start working. — Sean Lennon Copy Share Image
I think the bravest thing to write about is nothing, just to write a book in which nothing happens. — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.” — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever committed suicide while reading a good book, but many have while trying to write one.” — Robert Byrne Copy Share Image
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us. — Julia McNair Wright Copy Share Image
I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception. — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
“I hate it that Americans are taught to fear some books and some ideas as though they were diseases.” — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
