The others in the dorm thought I wanted to be a writer, because I was always alone with a book, but I… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When you read the book you see that these guys aren't holding any punches. They're straightforward. They're honest. They're giving you their… — Charles Barkley Copy Share Image
Ooo,” said Alexia, fascinated, “it shrinks back down again. The books didn't detail that occurrence.” The earl laughed. “You must show me… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
“You don’t expect your readers to go, “Ah this book’s not just a fine work of literary whatshisname, but also a get-rich-quick… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Til 1983, I wrote primarily for other psychologists and expected that they would be the principal audience for my book. — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
We will always return to the private and inviolable act of reading as our culture's way of developing an individual. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . .… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I read the poem [In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke] because I was intrigued and had one of those strange senses:… — Peter van Agtmael Copy Share Image
I have always been a big fan of the character and am more of a moviegoer than a comic book guy, there… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books… — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
The truth is that since the first book, I have wanted to emulate Benjamin Franklin and put together a healthy, wealthy and… — Tim Ferriss Copy Share Image
He went to bed early, but could not fall asleep. He was haunted by sad and gloomy reflections about the inevitable end-… — Ivan Turgenev Copy Share Image
The touring makes you take a step back. It makes you realize how your lifestyle has changed. You spend all this time… — Garance Dore Copy Share Image
What you could say, and what I do argue in the book, is that he doesn't have as much concern for the… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
FAILURE is a single paper in a book of success... but, Sucess is tha whole book itself… So, Don't loose a full… — Sanjufago Copy Share Image
It's true that Eastern philosophy and religion were not unknown to me as a child, since my father has explored much in… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
I didn't want to just write a series - I wanted to write an epic, on story that spans three books, where… — Marcus Sakey Copy Share Image
I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in… — Patti Davis Copy Share Image
How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what its like to really adore something. — Todd Lowe Copy Share Image
When I wrote 'Silver Linings,' I thought I was writing a book about the Philadelphia Eagles and male bonding, but when the… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
Unless you're Stephen King or Joyce Carol Oates, no one's going to recognize you on the street, and you're promoting your book,… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
Anselm Kiefer made a book for me. He was taking pictures of me and my friends when we weren't posing, just all… — Michele Lamy Copy Share Image
They took each other's advice, opened one book, went over to another, then did not know what to decide when opinions diverged… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
The books you read as a young person are books that stay with you forever. I think that is the biggest privilege… — Jenny Han Copy Share Image
If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“That's my point: if you own thirty or more books, or you are reading any book at this moment, you may protest… — Thomas Geoghegan Copy Share Image
“I’m working hard to edit my book, so I can get it up for sale so that nobody can rush out and… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
One does not arise from such a book as Sister Carrie with a smirk of satisfaction; one leaves it infinitely touched. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I did like Robert Vavra's book not only for its so very good photographs but for the text as well. He's no… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
“have u ever read a book or a novel that is so interesting but very difficult to understand it and it doesn't… — Agnes Ramere Copy Share Image
I'm definitely happy with the progression of my career. I'm glad I didn't jump to stardom immediately, because I get to enjoy… — Brittany Curran Copy Share Image
In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and… — Alexander Smith Copy Share Image
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two… — Celine Buckens Copy Share Image
In the four hundred and thirteenth year of the Christian era, some three hundred miles above Alexandria, the young monk Philammon was… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
I wanted to write a book that maybe had the potential to go beyond the Deadspin and KSK [Kissing Suzy Kolber] readership. — Drew Magary Copy Share Image