And if you are a parent, introduce your children to their neighborhood library. It will give them a real sense of independence… — Sarah Jessica Parker Copy Share Image
Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the… — Martin Lewis Perl Copy Share Image
The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a… — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
I view askance a book that remains undisturbed for a year. Oughtn't it to have a ticket of leave? I think I… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
Why I have had such a huge career and why I have sold over four million books, is that people can do… — Sandra Lee Copy Share Image
The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
I think I've actually benefited from Australia being a kind of combination of both British and American culture. We kind of got… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Graphic novels might really speak to one child who's struggling with the other kinds of reading and might help them discover that… — Emma Walton Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I start, I have a feeling for the characters, and maybe the shape of the story. Sometimes I might even have… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
One of the things when you're drawing a comic book is that you're spending four or five times as long to draw… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
In a place like Israel, they're very concerned with Iran, so there's a lot of interest. So they want to see what… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
Our lives will only be just a book on the shelf... it's up to you to decide whether the pages get turned… — Raina Spencer Copy Share Image
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. When I was young I longed to write a great… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
So here they are, the dog-faced soldiers, the regulars, the fifty-cents-a-day professionals riding the outposts of the nation, from Fort Reno to… — Frank Nugent Copy Share Image
What I hear about the book does not sound like the Scott McClellan I knew for two years. I can say, without… — Jeff Gannon Copy Share Image
One of the ideas that runs through this book [Lincoln in the Bardo] is this Buddhist notion that the mind is incredibly… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
For any book, it's distilling all of the moments in the book that are either fan favorites or pivotal that you have… — Dana Brunetti Copy Share Image
My favourite all-time work of fiction: Lord of the Rings. My favourite all-time nonfiction book: Guns, Germs, and Steel. Ask me again… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I could have been a cult writer if I'd kept writing surrealistic novels. But I wanted to break into the mainstream, so… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I'm a man with a mission in two or three editions And I'm giving you a longing look Everyday, everyday, everyday I… — Elvis Costello Copy Share Image
Whatever books you may read, you cannot realize the Divine merely by intellectual effort. Oneness can only be promoted by the practice… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
One of the advantages of the book's having been out there for more than a quarter century is that there's been time… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
I think that an author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
When my books came out, they started selling but they started selling at a relatively consistent but low pace. And they started… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
You'll accidentally find in barrows of books wrought-iron lines of long-buried poems, handle them with the care that respects ancient but terrible… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
She liked books more than anything else, and was, in fact, always inventing stories of beautiful things and telling them to herself. — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
Now that Mr. Carter has made a book of his diary, an adoring memoir entitled Keeping Faith, the notes read like a… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
I found myself jealous of the people who wrote the books. They were dead and they were still taking up my time.… — Ned Vizzini Copy Share Image
Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“A book of the Indians (that is, Kalîlah wa-Dimnah) teaches that a scholar’s knowledge accompanies him and provides for him wherever he… — Franz Rosenthal Copy Share Image
The memoir was a very personal book. I wrote it as a personal journey and search about who my father was and… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
When a day passes, it is no longer there. What remains of it? Nothing more than a story. If stories weren't told… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
He needed fresh air and sunshine. A walk in the woods and afterward a good book to read by the fire. Yeah,… — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image