A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
Close the back cover of the book, move on and find something else to do. — Ramandeep Singh Copy Share Image
You could never be certain what you would find in a book that had spent time with someone else. — Erica Bauermeister Copy Share Image
What is the virtue and service of a book? Only to help me live less gingerly and shabbily. — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great. — Sam Amidon Copy Share Image
The most difficult book I have ever read was a manual on the use of iron bangles by A.J. Thompson. — Spike Milligan Copy Share Image
Fundamentally, all art is about human beings. You're always showing larger moral questions through the smaller moral, philosophical, or political choices through… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you read the Bible, you find yourself asking, "How does this book know that about me? How does it know… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
What would it be like to live in a library of melted books. With sentences streaming over the floor and all the… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
Books are better friends than people at times. They do not threaten you, unless that feeling means you're anticipating the next event. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
People say if you're doing an art project, that's different from a book, but I honestly don't see it. I try and… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
He who writes distichs, wishes, I suppose, to please by brevity. But, tell me, of what avail is their brevity, when there… — Martial Copy Share Image
My favorite is 'The Last Coyote.' I'm not saying that's the best book I've written; I hope I haven't written my best… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
There are instances where lines in my work are borrowed or stolen from sources, mainly from books, or they become my own… — Raymond Pettibon Copy Share Image
Much of the way books get classified has to do with marketing decisions. I think it's more useful to think of literary… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
America is now wholly given over to a d--d mob of scribbling women, and I should have no chance of success while… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
The library...of wisdom is more precious than all riches, and nothing that can be wished for is worthy to be compared with… — Richard de Bury Copy Share Image
The book that I wrote is called Dark Money, and it's about secret spending that is very hard to follow. [George] Soros's… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
Gina Hyams has put together a fabulous fun book/gift: Pie Contest in a Box: Everything You Need to Host a Pie Contest.… — Shauna James Ahern Copy Share Image
I've been asked several times since the book Love and Trouble came out, "Are you still sad?" And I'm not, not in… — Claire Dederer Copy Share Image