“Amazon isn’t happening to the book business,” he likes to say to authors and journalists. “The future is happening to the book… — Brad Stone Copy Share Image
In 2008, when I wrote Book 1 and Book 2, the head of the publishing house suggested twelve books - one each… — Karl Ove Knausgard Copy Share Image
I'm lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer there's ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
Note that the #1 Top Reviewer at Amazon (4550 book reviews) is Harriet Klausner, formerly an acquisitions librarian in Pennsylvania. This just… — Peter Morville Copy Share Image
“I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their… — Saffron Mello Castro Copy Share Image
I got a dog-training book. It says Grendel needs mental stimulation, so I tried to train him, but I think he must… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
There is this value in books, that they enable us to converse with the dead. There is something in this beyond the… — Egerton Brydges Copy Share Image
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“Books are like people: fascinating, inspiring, thought-provoking, some laugh, some meditate, others ache with old age, but still have wisdom: some are… — Gladys Hunt Copy Share Image
If you see in all my books, I have two key intentions. One is obviously to entertain and make sure that the… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
None of my patients are really troubled by the idea that some part of what they say might be in a book… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
I was doing great plays. It wasn't changing the world. I was getting good agents and doing film and TV and I… — Rainn Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm listening to Gogol Bordello, which is totally random, but I love him. Just finished the new Joan Didion book, Blue Nights,… — Pamela Love Copy Share Image
I think theres just this mystique of writing a book that appeals to people. A person has to really check their motives… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Knowledge drifts in and out of my mind", said Lestat with a little look of honest distress and a shake of his… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
We've all had the experience of you pick up a book, you can't get into it, you can't concentrate.Then one day you… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
“There are certain books in the history of the world that should never have been written. This book makes all those look… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
...the book is a manifesto to make the Web atone for the sins of computers and regain a level of simplicity that… — Jakob Nielsen Copy Share Image
Well — when I write my book, and tell the tale Of my adventures — all these little stars That shake out… — Cyrano de Bergerac Copy Share Image
So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement… — Matthew Zapruder Copy Share Image
books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I imagine he knows magic, if he is reading books. The book itself doesn’t matter. It’s that he found another world in… — Rene Denfeld Copy Share Image
Pleasant is a rainy winter's day, within doors! The best study for such a day, or the best amusement,—call it which you… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
They do most by Books, who could do much without them, and he that chiefly owes himself unto himself, is the substantial… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
As many as six out of ten American adults have never read a book of any kind, and the bulletins from the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I told my boss that I had a book inside of me, and that I needed to get it out even if… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every… — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
Dear Frank Einstein, Please invent time machine. Send your books back in time to me in 1978. Also a levitating skateboard. Tommy — Tom Angleberger Copy Share Image
When the first list was being drawn up in the rock and roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the… — Rick Wakeman Copy Share Image
Books aren't like broccoli. You don't have to eat it because it's good for you. Books drag you in because they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have read only the first 'Harry Potter' book. I thought it excellent, perhaps the best thing written for older children since… — Gene Wolfe Copy Share Image
Judge the goodness of a book by the energy of the punches it has given you. I believe the greatest characteristic of… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history. — Vincent Bugliosi Copy Share Image
Every day is a brand-new, completely crazy fantasy-adventure, where I'm either kicking ass or kicking balls. It's all part of the job.… — Gabriel Luna Copy Share Image
At the moment I'm building my battered women shelter task force and working on a skincare line and lifestyle brand. I also… — Stacey Dash Copy Share Image
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
Theres a great deal of attention paid and books written about this change of life in a woman, and really very little… — Frank Langella Copy Share Image
