There are noble books but one wants the breath of life sometimes. And I see no divine person. I myself am more… — Margaret Fuller Copy Share Image
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel… — Julien Green Copy Share Image
I think the reason working-class people don't write books is because they are encouraged to believe that only certain people are permitted… — Len Deighton Copy Share Image
Art is so personal. I'm very comforted by the fact that certain movies that I love, other people hate. Certain books that… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I have this weird obsession about buying books and looking at them with a smile, even if I won't read them soon.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
We certainly have a lot of ideas, and we both love what Tony [Fucile] did with the book [Bink & Gollie]. If… — Alison McGhee Copy Share Image
The truth is that I'm never sure how any of my books will be received, and because I can be thin-skinned, I… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
In the end, the most important thing is to be true to yourself and those you love and work hard. I mean,… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
Books leave gestures in the body; a certain way of moving, of turning, a certain closing of the eyes, a way of… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
Never far from a dining table, the characters in Heather A. Slomski's limpid and elegant debut collection are not given to melodramatics.… — Jaimy Gordon Copy Share Image
I source images and ideas from different parts of my experiences, and sometimes they are things that are made-up, or just appear… — Julia Stone Copy Share Image
Ender's Game is set more than a century in the future and has nothing to do with political issues that did not… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Brian Myers takes a fresh approach. He largely ignores what the regime tells the outside world about itself, but concentrates instead on… — Andrei Lankov Copy Share Image
I once stole a book. It was really just the once, and at the time I called it borrowing. It was 1970,… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads… — John Green Copy Share Image
Anyt hing that is found to stimulate hope should be seized upon and make to serve. This applies to a book, a… — Hubert Van Zeller Copy Share Image
“But how could she have forgotten who he was—a man who could lose himself in a single book, not to mention a… — Robert Masello Copy Share Image
I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to… — Jhonen Vasquez Copy Share Image
The women in the room chatted about love, about childhood, about losing parents, about Mr. Spock, about good books they'd read. They… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I still have a full-time day job, which is why it took me five years to write An Ear to the Ground,… — Ken Thompson Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a kid who hates reading. There are kids who love reading, and kids who are reading the… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Hearing that the same men who brought us 'South Park' were mounting a musical to be called 'The Book of Mormon,' we… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I think you have to read a lot. I think if you're going to write about something you better have read at… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
“That's right I am a book kisser. Maybe that's kind of perverted or maybe it's just romantic and highly intelligent.” — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
In the book of life every page has two sides: we human beings fill the upper side with our plans, hopes and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things. — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, I was the most pretentious person I have ever met. I only read obscure books and watched… — Moby Copy Share Image
If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
“A book is like a trapdoor that leads to a secret attic: You can open it and go inside. And your world… — Antonio Iturbe Copy Share Image
My earliest memory of books is not of reading but of being read to. I spent hours listening, watching the face of… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“Never judge the others for each one wears a cover for their version of the original. (talking about individuals in the stream… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
“While Karl Marx made some perceptive pronouncements about the value of books, it was the wiser Marx, Groucho, who observed that “outside… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone if so warm, and the children know my from the children's books. Their oldest siblings or young parents know me from… — Henry Winkler Copy Share Image
“any book in the world - if there was only one way to read and understand it, what would be the point… — Kate Milford Copy Share Image
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Characters in a book are very much like personalities divvied up within a family. In the end, it all averages out to… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I wouldn't necessarily have been making books about how to make comics if I'd really felt I knew how to make comics. — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, I thought faeries lived only in books, old folktales, and the past. That was before they burst upon… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image