Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air. — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
What I think is interesting is that the more you do, you have to invent a book of rules of what you… — Adrian Lyne Copy Share Image
If reading makes you smart then how come when you read a book they have to put the title of the book… — Brian Regan Copy Share Image
We all want to write the kind of book that we want to read. If you put in the things that you… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
...We try to have things both ways. We’ve always refused to live by the book and the rule; but then why start… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really recommend that anyone who wants to write have a very physical hobby that takes you away from books and criticism,… — Jo-Ann Mapson Copy Share Image
We are all writers and readers as well as communicators with the need at times to please and satisfy ourselves with the… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
I don't write huge books any more. I used to write 1,000 printed pages, but now I write short books. I did… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
I have always thought that librarians are a little bit like doctors, travel agents and professors all rolled into one. We all… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
“A book, he thinks at one point, rubbing his eyes, tired from so much focused reading. It's a world all on its… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen,… — Fannie Hurst Copy Share Image
Our [Virginia's] act for freedom of religion is extremely applauded. The Ambassadors and ministers of the several nations of Europe resident at… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they… — Marilyn Monroe Copy Share Image
Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
“I sighed, looking down at the book in my hands. The Years. I rested my elbow against the arm of the couch… — Sarah Jio Copy Share Image
My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
What makes a publisher decide to market a book to a particular audience is not the subject matter but the style. — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That… — Julie Berry Copy Share Image
Great books give you a feeling that you miss all day, until you finally get to crawl back inside those pages again. — Kathryn Stockett Copy Share Image
In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Generally my favorite remarks always come from my readers. I've had people say my books made them laugh, or cry, or that… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Often I sit up in my room reading the greatest part of the night, when the book was borrowed in the evening… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I read this book when I was young. It's about a black girl growing up in Heaven, Ohio. The cover has a… — Jamila Woods Copy Share Image
I have been told by an eminent bookseller, that in no branch of his business , after tracts of popular devotion, were… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
In terms of the way people see me, it breaks down into two very clear and distinct groups: those who think they… — David Icke Copy Share Image
“Marianne, who had the knack of finding her way in every house to the library, however it might be avoided by the… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
If I wasn't an actress I'd want to be a writer or else find a job where I got to read books… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
The gains in education are never really lost. Books may be burned and cities sacked, but truth, like the yearning for freedom,… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
There isn't a thought or feeling that doesn't alter or deepen when written. We are a writing animal. That is why all… — Carol Bly Copy Share Image
Now, public libraries are most admirable institutions, but they have one irritating custom. They want their books back. — Cecil B. DeMille Copy Share Image
“Yet this book is to prove that no matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I started a funny book from the 1930s called The Code of the Woosters by P. G. Wodehouse. Wodehouse is a comic… — William Gurstelle Copy Share Image
When the 'Book of Mormon' was first published, some of those who believed in it taught it to others and testified of… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant. — Lawrence Clark Powell Copy Share Image
I already knew about this friendship between St. John Paul II and this philosopher [Ana Teresa Tymieniecka] when I was in Buenos… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
My aspiration was to write a book that you could still read in 10 years. That's hard. Then you start doubting every… — Rutger Bregman Copy Share Image
I like spaghetti because you don't have to take your eyes off the book to pick about among it, it's all the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with a writer who has a distinct style in book after book, but I am not interested in… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
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