Whenever I start a book, I swear it's going to be a short one. But then it's, 'Who was his grandfather? And… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The book salesman should be honored because he brings to our attention, as a rule, the very books we need most and… — Confucius Copy Share Image
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People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
Book love is something like romantic love. When we are reading a really great book, burdens feel lighter, cares seem smaller. — Steve Leveen Copy Share Image
I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Frank Moore Cross is also a leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, which he's been since they were discovered more than 50 years… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
People have to have the desire within themselves to find out who they are. Who am I and what am I doing… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Only men of considerable vanity write books; consistently therewith, I worried lest the world were exchanging an irreplaceable author for a more… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“Happiness and achieving our dreams is a matter of believing it is possible and having a positive frame of mind.” — The Letters Of Gratitude Copy Share Image
And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do… — Sandra Lee Copy Share Image
The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
There are many troubles which you cannot cure by the Bible and the hymn-book, but which you can cure by a good… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
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