“Clothes were to Sylvia what books were to me: the only thing that really mattered.” — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.” — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
When you go through a camp, you do a fight, you basically finish a chapter in your book. — Beneil Dariush Copy Share Image
Anytime you're sitting there writing a book about yourself, it's a pretty self-fulfilling prophecy, I guess. — Samoa Joe Copy Share Image
It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“-- that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.” — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Islam's biggest enemy is the Quran. If people learn what is in that book, Islam will be finished. — Ali Sina Copy Share Image
I hope children will be happy with the books I've written, and go on to be readers all of their lives. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
The bane of my existence is the synopses that publishers request for a new novel or series. That's where I'm really producing… — Michelle Gagnon Copy Share Image
“Later on, when you are older, you won't enjoy anything., then you'll say: 'I read that in books twenty years ago.” — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that my scripts are more significant than maybe the Bible or the book that the Jews use, whatever… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
The clerical work is par for the course. "Keep on file in numerical order" means throw in wastebasket. You'll soon learn the… — Bel Kaufman Copy Share Image
For me, the most painful thing is the thought of shelves without books. This is the problem with the digital thing. I… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
It's funny because 'The Book of Mormon' is 'The Book of Mormon' now. When I was doing it at the very beginning,… — Josh Gad Copy Share Image
The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex. They've got to be… — Mario Savio Copy Share Image
There is only one positive role of the Nobel prize--it creates some common way to understand a writer. I cannot say, that… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
Well it's been about 100 years and every attempt at a comics writers' union has failed miserably. There is, sadly, a long… — Brian Michael Bendis Copy Share Image
As a kid, I was a big reader. Books and theater were the way I understood the world, and also the way… — Greta Gerwig Copy Share Image
Some of the sweetest hours in life, in retrospect will be found to have been spent with books. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I hate all that woozy political and psychotherapeutic crap applied to books and art. — Dave Hickey Copy Share Image
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“My books are water; those of the great geniuses is wine. Everybody drinks water.” — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
When that book came out, it was like Columbus telling about America at the court of Ferdinand and Isabella. — Theodore White Copy Share Image
A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more. — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The Bible - it's sort of the other person in the room. There's this book, the reader, and the Bible. — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
Chinese consumers don't book hotel rooms that are as expensive as U.S. consumers. — Dara Khosrowshahi Copy Share Image
Failing is not a disgrace unless you make it the last chapter of your book. — Jack Hyles Copy Share Image
“You try every trick in the book to keep her. You write her letters. You drive her to work. You quote Neruda.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
