I guess I was raised in a household with a lot of reverence for the physical sanctity of books. You didn't destroy… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
There is no less invention in aptly applying a thought found in a book, than in being the first author of the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Joss's ears perked up. He loved libraries. Nowhere else in the world felt so safe and homey. Nowhere else smelled like books… — Heather Brewer Copy Share Image
Of course, literature is the only spiritual and humane career. Even painting tends to dumness, and music turns people erotic, whereas the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . . — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Friend, you were on my heart when I mapped out this book. You were made for more than the daily grind. More… — Emily Grabatin Copy Share Image
"Chocolate mustache" is from a line in the book. It's my favorite title (chosen by me), so I'm pleased that Never Spit… — J. Patrick Lewis Copy Share Image
“If I accept that a book must end, I will finish it tonight. What I am doing now is to postpone this… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of… — Liberace Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
The royalty any author gets is dependent on his track record and marketability and often on the price of his book, too.… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
Pride and Prejudice' - perhaps more than any other Jane Austen book - is engrained in our literary consciousness. — Seth Grahame-Smith Copy Share Image
I like the brighter, shinier, happier comic-book material on a personal level, but I also think the best stories are told where… — Mark Waid Copy Share Image
If you are rich, you have lovely cars, and jars full of flowers, and books in rows, and a wireless, and the… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
A key to McMaster's thinking is his 1997 book, 'Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and… — Peter Bergen Copy Share Image
I discover methods for myself and then read books that describe 'my' method. This leads me to believe that the creative well… — Gene Black Copy Share Image
Go little book, thy self present, As child whose parent is unkent: To him that is the president Of noblesse and of… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
I got addicted to the addiction book. I actually started developing all the addictions of the people in the book that I… — Susan Shapiro Copy Share Image
When I was 18, I borrowed my parents' car, and they are super supportive. They might give us snacks for the road,… — Frankie Cosmos Copy Share Image
Thank you industrialization. Thank you steel mill. Thank you power station. And thank you chemical processing industry that gave us time to… — Hans Rosling Copy Share Image
“Jaimie loved the dictionary even more than the television because it is the one book that contains all others.” — Robert Chazz Chute Copy Share Image
“Reading without thinking is nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.” — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I… — Kathy Griffin Copy Share Image
If a man wants to read good books, he must make a point of avoiding bad ones; for life is short, and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
For, so long as there are interesting books to read, it seems to me that neither I nor anyone else, for that… — Selma Lagerlöf Copy Share Image
“This is a book which I would recommend to anyone who is walking through the pain of abuse. A book of courage… — Ruth Hawkey Copy Share Image
By no means did my first book sell. I took a few runs at it. You'll never see those early efforts 'cause… — Marcia Clark Copy Share Image
“Life is a book that someone else is reading—and you, a key character—hence the need for continual conflict and resolution. We can't… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes that in children's books there are more and more grim problems, but I don't know that I want to… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
The approach to the offices of Girdlestone and Co. was not a very dignified one, nor would the uninitiated who traversed it… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the 'limit text' of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Evidently, I'd suffered an epiphany: the subconscious realization that when it comes to coolness, nothing the human race has ever invented is… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Look at the next chapter in your life as a fresh start, just because a book may not have a good beginning… — Rashida Rowe Copy Share Image
“Now, go, wirte it before them in a table and note it in a book, that it may be fore the time… — Isiah from the bible Copy Share Image
