Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Look - The moon thumbs through night's book. Finds a lake where nothing is printed. Draws a straight line. That's all it… — Rolf Jacobsen Copy Share Image
My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
That [Louisiana culture] was all very new to me. I read books and watched documentaries, just trying to immerse myself. — Kofi Siriboe Copy Share Image
I've been writing since I was six years old. It's hard to imagine stopping. I would hate to think that I've already… — Don Winslow Copy Share Image
OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or… — Gary D. Schmidt Copy Share Image
I am fine with my books being categorized as African-American literature but I hope they are also considered Haitian-American literature and American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
A lot of the time writers are just sponges... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind… — Marcus Mumford Copy Share Image
By the consultation of books, whether of dead or living authors, many temptations of petulance and opposition, which occur in oral conferences,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share Image
In the United States, they always talk about subtitles, about chapters in a book without taking the main title of the book.… — Bashar al-Assad Copy Share Image
When autumn shadows throw their patterns across the land, they are not the images of fragile, dying leaves, not the bared arms… — Djuna Barnes Copy Share Image
What do I want in a good fantasy book? Court politics and social interactions based around houses and cities. Powerful women and… — Tansy Rayner Roberts Copy Share Image
You know, I'm a total perfectionist, and I labor over trying to get things right. Whether we're putting together an opening for… — Jim Nantz Copy Share Image
... I soon found an opportunity to be introduced to a famous professor Johann Bernoulli. ... True, he was very busy and… — Leonhard Euler Copy Share Image
In researching this volume, I interviewed veterans who had been at the front during World War II. I read countless books, examined… — Hiromu Arakawa Copy Share Image
So, for a book set in 2006, Open City evades certain markers, while it embraces certain others. Julius doesn't use a smartphone,… — Teju Cole Copy Share Image
The comic book world is so dangerous, you know what I mean? You say one thing and people - they're ravenous -… — Chris Evans Copy Share Image
I'm a huge fan of Tolkien. I read those books when I was in junior high school and high school, and they… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and… — James Corden Copy Share Image
My book 'Things Get Better' has normalised the idea that it's OK to fail and it's OK to seek professional help from… — Katie Piper Copy Share Image
I have heard Science Fiction and Fantasy referred to as the fiction of ideas, and I like that definition, but it's the… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
If you really want you people to innovate, buy a science fiction book, tear off the covers, and tell them it's history. — Nolan Bushnell Copy Share Image
I'm incredibly restless. I read a lot of poetry. I also find myself reading the first 20 pages of everything, looking for… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
“DEDICATED TO YOU: I cannot believe you and I have come so far. Your book is not a goodbye, however-just another beginning.… — J.R.Ward Copy Share Image
Writing blurbs for books means you have to read the book, and it cuts into the business of bookselling. So every time… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I'd like to do something involving jazz. But books are how I earn my living, and I'd like to stay with the… — James McBride Copy Share Image
I never show my books to Ricky. His writing is very different, and anyway, he's only read one novel in his life:… — Jane Fallon Copy Share Image
I'm good at loving books. I'm good at loving soft bed sheets. I'm good at loving coffees and teas. I am good… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
When it comes time to write the book itself I'll shut the lights out, picture the scene I'm about to write then… — Jeffery Deaver Copy Share Image
It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say "at last", I almost wish he… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
*Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Books can also provoke emotions. And emotions sometimes are even more troublesome than ideas. Emotions have led people to do all sorts… — Pseudonymous Bosch Copy Share Image
Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
“Aren't you two ever going to read Hogwarts, A History?" "What's the point?" said Ron. "You know it by heart, we can… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When I became a photographer, I took Mums talent for granted. She would take pictures out the car window and then they… — Mary McCartney Copy Share Image
The best is oftentimes the enemy of the good; and many a good book has remained unwritten... because there floated before the… — Richard Chenevix Trench Copy Share Image
Wartime CEO is too busy fighting the enemy to read management books written by consultants who have never managed a fruit stand. — Ben Horowitz Copy Share Image