“Please, no matter how we advance in technology please don't abandon the book-there is nothing in our material world more beautiful than… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I've tried to make a book that's accessible to the ordinary, intelligent reader. Very often books that cover this kind of subject… — Brian Crozier Copy Share Image
Never buy an editor or publisher a lunch or a drink until he has bought an article, story or book from you.… — John Creasey Copy Share Image
Republicans stand by their convictions. Stupid, ignorant, world-destroying convictions based on disproven economic fantasies and ancient books full of primitive morality and… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“How strange it was..., one minute you were all alone with your thoughts, the next somebody came along who seemed to know… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
“This book is my obliging you. This is a book I never would have dared write, if I did not feel protected… — Hélène Cixous Copy Share Image
Speak Peace is a book that comes at an appropriate time when anger and violence dominates human attitudes. Marshall Rosenberg gives us… — Arun Manilal Gandhi Copy Share Image
“ Pictures are windows to any lands, But a book is a door that ready stands To him who will open and… — Annette Wynne Copy Share Image
My mother always kept library books in the house, and one rainy Sunday afternoon - this was before television, and we didn't… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Rohan's fingertips drifted with stunning delicacy over her throat, behind her ear, pushing into the satiny warmth of her hair. "You are… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Creativity doesn’t come from glancing quickly at your Twitter feed while in line at Starbucks. It comes from deep thought. It comes… — Joshua Rogers Copy Share Image
Alan Moore does have a sheen of class. He's a smart guy, and I'm sure there was a metaphoric level, I'm not… — Chester Brown Copy Share Image
Colin emphatically pushed the book cover shut when he finished reading. "Did you like it?" His dad asked. "Yup," Colin said. He… — John Green Copy Share Image
Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
A sketch book freezes time. It is an instantaneous form of meditation focusing us on the worth of every passing moment. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
I really don't know but I would quote for a book from JACQUELINE WILSON which is a very interesting book of her… — Jacqueline Wilson Copy Share Image
We're supposed to have guns. It says so in the Bible; and the second greatest book ever written, the Texas State Constitution. — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single… — Adam Johnson Copy Share Image
“Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but… — Twain, Mark Copy Share Image
[My mom] had always wanted to write a children's book. She was a children's librarian and an elementary school teacher, so of… — Jenna Bush Copy Share Image
In the initial season of a show, you're figuring out your character and their life and their background and you're putting together… — Sophia Bush Copy Share Image
I never use a score when conducting my orchestra... Does a lion tamer enter a cage with a book on how to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children are receptive to talking about gender creativity, confirming the importance of the book as a means to instigate this dialogue at… — Vivek Shraya Copy Share Image
One of the things that happens in novels it's almost like a continual debate with yourself. That's why you're writing the book.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The time comes in life when we have read enough. It's time to stop reading. It's time to lay down the books… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
A really great popcorn movie is extremely hard to pull off. A really great popcorn book is equally hard to pull off,… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
Strictly' is the most successful reality format in the world - it's in the 'Guinness Book of Records' - going to 38… — Craig Revel Horwood Copy Share Image
My first book deal was for two Mark Genevich novels. I hadn't planned on writing a second Genevich novel, but I was… — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
“A big book is like a serious relationship; it requires a commitment. Not only that, but there's no guarantee that you will… — Mick Foley Copy Share Image
Stephen Schlesinger’s Act of Creation tells a dazzling story of the dramatic events that have shaped the world in which we live.… — James Chace Copy Share Image
Well named, Quotology contains everything you always wanted to know about quotations, quoters, quotees, quotation books, 'quoox' (quotations out of context), and… — Marjorie Garber Copy Share Image
“for Google, the real value of a book is not as a self-contained literary work but as another pile of data to… — Nicholas Carr Copy Share Image
It's much different today than it was during the Cold War. The CIA is not the subject of many books anymore. But… — Nelson DeMille Copy Share Image
In terms of writing, I think what most fiction writers treasure more than anything is the feeling that they're living for the… — Lauren Groff Copy Share Image
Well managed and healthy oceans are vital to the survival of small island states, such as the Maldives. This important book shows… — Mohamed Nasheed Copy Share Image
Whereas 'OddParents' was slam-bam and silly all the way through, 'Danny Phantom' has more of a good-guy-vs.-bad-guy comic book feel. — Butch Hartman Copy Share Image
I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
My books are better thought about than read. They're insanely dull and unreadable.But they're wonderful to talk about and think about, to… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image