Mêmewars is electricity in language, eccentricity at its best where 'there's a profusion of presents.' This book makes eye contact with she… — Nicole Brossard Copy Share Image
“To say that she had a book is to say that her solitude did not press upon her; for her love of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I remember a lot of dreams. Sometimes they are hard to distinguish from what has really happened. That is not so terrible.… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the… — David Lubar Copy Share Image
Books, like lives, are always unfinished even when they end, for to write is to struggle with contingency, to impose a certain… — Mark Kingwell Copy Share Image
I've got a long list of books I wish I'd never written-and I've kept them all out of print for the past… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I like to think that each book I start is a completely new departure But I’ve learned that whatever you do, readers… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound. — Zoltan Kodaly Copy Share Image
I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women,… — Marjorie M. Liu Copy Share Image
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
I have often thought that nothing would do more extensive good at small expense than the establishment of a small circulating library… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before.… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
There is a law written in the darkest of the Books of Life, and it is this: If you look at a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So much of my own life inspires what I write. Whether it's work, family, friends, motherhood, I am a writer who tends… — Lauren Weisberger Copy Share Image
“The things you're looking for...are in the world, but the only way the average chap will see ninety-nine percent of them is… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my… — Nigel Dennis Copy Share Image
Clothing left on the bed unfolded. Books stained with coffee spots. Tabs not paid until the last possible second. Boys kissed and… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends;;they are the most accessable and wisest of counselore, and the most patient teachers.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dishonest, which is Hillary Clinton in the eyes of the American people, beats crazy. Dishonest loses to normal. So, let's just pick… — Lindsey Graham Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some happy and some very exciting. But if you never turn the page,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose. — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is the 'keystone' of our religion, and the Doctrine and Covenants is the 'capstone,' with continuing latter day… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Actually, I'm reading a lot of my scripts. When I'm working on something, it's hard to find time. You're always prepping new… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies,… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tré on their first tour bus: It's, like, an ok tour bus and all, but people see book mobile on the side… — Green Day Copy Share Image
In spite of Jean-Jacques and his school, men are not everywhere born free, any more than they are everywhere in chains, unless… — Francis Marion Crawford Copy Share Image
“She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what… — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image