Every burned book or house enlightens the world; every suppressed or expunged word reverberates through the earth from side to side. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“If you cannot buy yourself a coat, buy yourself a book, latter your book will buy you a coat. Knowledge is only… — Osunsakin Adewale Copy Share Image
Peter Rabbit's not a rabbit. Peter Rabbit is a proxy for the child who reads the book, and they imagine themselves in… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
You need to know a little about a lot to write a book. The amount of research that goes into it- it's… — James Murray Copy Share Image
The White Queen in many ways it is representative of the sort of drama that I'm talking about. The books by Philippa… — Colin Callender 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 instructores… — Haile Selassie Copy Share Image
I've always loved comic books. As a kid, I used to read cowboy stories and historical comics about other worlds, unknown places… — James Herbert Copy Share Image
A truly good book is something as wildly natural and primitive, mysterious and marvelous, ambrosial and fertile as a fungus or a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Now, which am I to believe, a book that any impostor might make and call the Word of God, or the creation… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Coolidge was a pragmatist. He didn't start out with a tax theory. But he observed over time that lower tax rates sometimes… — Amity Shlaes Copy Share Image
The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the… — Gary Carter Copy Share Image
The central point of this final chapter is that - follow my logic carefully here - unless you die, you will continue… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I feel that people who haven't read my books and haven't heard me lecture - who don't in fact know what my… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The truth about being a writer is you do not choose the stories you tell, but stories choose you. You do not… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
“She asked her parents to buy him the books she’d been read by her first teachers, Peter Rabbit and Frog and Toad.… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there… — John Green Copy Share Image
A lover goes toward his beloved as enthusiastically as a schoolboy leaving his books, but when he leaves his girlfriend, he feels… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Katey's the hottest bookworm you'll ever meet. If you took all the books that she's read and piled them in a stack,… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
Sometimes when you cannot decide what to do, you pretend to be a character in a book, because it is easier to… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try… — R. L. Stine Copy Share Image
I was a real mess at school. I got a bit of a reputation for being the weird girl: the girl who'd… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
All of marketing consists in creating relationships. Real relationships: friends, lovers, partners, warriors, fans. — John Kremer Copy Share Image
“I could leave the world of the book enthralled and inspired, but the real world awaited me, to caress or to kick… — Sara Niles Copy Share Image
Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse… — Bette Midler Copy Share Image
You can predict a person?s future and divine his bank balance if you know two things: the books he reads, the people… — Earl Nightingale Copy Share Image
“We fell into the book of love stumbling through the pages filling up the paragraphs creating new chapters right till the very… — Pyrokardia Copy Share Image
Sparrow Hill Road' is a stand-alone book that ties into the InCryptid universe, not the launching point for a whole new series. — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“I will write one book that will change entire humankind if only you have enough guts to read my previous ones.” — Santosh Kalwar Copy Share Image
I won't lie. Walking into a room and seeing your girlfriend reading a baby-name book can kind of make your heart stop. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I have found that each of my books has developed out of something I have written in a previous book. Some thought… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
You can't write a book about Hillary Clinton and not anticipate some blowback, so I always knew it was going to be… — Amy Chozick Copy Share Image
I'm trying to convey to my audience that you really can't judge a book by its cover, and there's more to the… — Adam Lambert Copy Share Image
In terms of why everything is different, each book is different than the one before because I'm so bored of what I… — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
The authoritarian sets up some book, or man, or tradition to establish the truth. The freethinker sets up reason and private judgment… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The words of musicals were the moral codes that I lived by. I found meaning and messages in musicals that I didn't… — Rosie O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Im omnivorous in my tastes, fiction and non-fiction, always several books on the go, though Ill read a novel in a day… — O.R. Melling Copy Share Image
I'll be reading books until the next challenger arrives. That will calm my nerves, so that I may deal with all situations… — Lucian Copy Share Image
The only friends who are free from cares are the goblet of wine and a book. Give me wine...that I may for… — Hafez Copy Share Image
Screenplays I didn't really care about, journalism, travel books, getting my writer friends to write about their dreams or something. I just… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
