I have written a few children's books. The first book that I wrote was for children. It was called "The Package", and… — Laurie Anderson Copy Share Image
If you just read the book, you're taking in the narrative, you're taking in the characters, you're understanding it in a certain… — James Franco Copy Share Image
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
Being a man of faith, what was so interesting to me was the subject, which started, by the way, with Anne Rice's… — John Debney Copy Share Image
It is both relaxing and invigorating to occasionally set aside the worries of life, seek the company of a friendly book...from the… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Literature was the only religion her father practiced, when a book fell on the floor he kissed it, when he was done… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“This book is dedicated to all the people who get up and do something about it, whatever “it” is and however small… — Ben Aaronovitch Copy Share Image
Umberto Eco is the owner of a large personal library of almost 30,000 books that he has not read. [To him] read… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
“Francie thought that all the books in the world were in that library and she had a plan about reading all the… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
“Buying books in that 20 year period of my life in which the internet pervaded much of what I did, was quick… — Mark Boyle Copy Share Image
There's this quote by a writer, Emil Cioran, he's a Romanian writer. He says that you should only put things in books… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
Of all the weapons discussed in this book, nothing is more important than your primary firearm. Keep it cleaned, keep it oiled,… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
To any artist, worthy of the name, all in nature is beautiful, because his eyes, fearlessly accepting all exterior truth, read there,… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Long Gone is the type of book that should come with a warning. It’s a compulsively readable, highly addictive story. The ending… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is the "keystone" of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the capstone, with continuing latter-day revelation. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
Be sure then to read no mean books. Shun the spawn of the press on the gossip of the hour. Do not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Like books, the Internet has saved my life. It helped me recognize that so many people I adore suffer from the same… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
My imagination doesn't require anything more of the book than to provide a framework within which it can wander. — Alphonse Daudet Copy Share Image
Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience. — David Levithan Copy Share Image
Books are not about passing time. They're about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Every year, I give my dad an advance copy of my latest book. He reads it over the next several nights and… — Chelsea Cain Copy Share Image
He would go somewhere no one knew him, and he would sit in a library all day and read books and listen… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
David Sedaris wrote in one of his books that people like to make children into little grown-ups, which to him is about… — Mara Wilson Copy Share Image
'The Blade Itself' was my first book. Probably I should've tried a few short stories first, but for some reason I decided… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
Your whole life you are really writing one book, which is an attempt to grasp the consciousness of your time and place–… — Nadine Gordimer Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
A visit to a bookshop will be a difficult one if you're looking for any picture book in print that is more… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional… — Arnold Friberg Copy Share Image
In design-speak, 'a library' means a room lined with books, floor-to ceiling, but it all depends on the space you have. You… — Nate Berkus Copy Share Image
I never read Ford Madox Ford's "The Good Soldier." I've been reading books that I should have read years ago and did… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
Too much of this book knowledge just leads to doubts and confusion. You get too many doubts asking 'what is this?' and… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
[Peake's books] are actual additions to life; they give, like certain rare dreams, sensations we never had before, and enlarge our conception… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
“You don't find interesting stuff because you don't search enough, ... every book has it's own lesson. But sometimes it's difficult to… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
I got this book called 'How to Write the Popular Song.' I read that and went through all the things they suggested,… — Leon Russell Copy Share Image
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