When you read to a child, when you put a book in a child's hands, you are bringing that child news of… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
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I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
My all-time favourite children's book is 'Green Eggs and Ham' by Dr Seuss. Even as an adult I still appreciate it -… — Tom Fletcher Copy Share Image
The books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young man and to which I return… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I embellished many details about my past experiences, and altered others in order to serve what I felt was the greater purpose… — James Frey Copy Share Image
The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening… — Jeff Bezos Copy Share Image
It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations.… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We've never pulled from the toy line. We've always pulled from the mythology. What's great is there's so much mythology, so there's… — Lorenzo di Bonaventura Copy Share Image
After I discovered my degree in photojournalism would only get me a job in a camera store, I taught myself lighting. I… — Peter Menzel Copy Share Image
In my head, the 5 issues of A Spoon Too Short comprise one novel: a 100 page graphic novel sequel to Douglas'… — Arvind Ethan David Copy Share Image
I sent away to America for 'The Inside Secrets of Wrestling' that Percy Pringle and Dennis Brent wrote, and Volume 1 told… — Drew McIntyre Copy Share Image
Don't lament so much about how your career is going to turn out. You don't have a career. You have a life.… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
It's the fantasy of first love. If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love… — E. L. James Copy Share Image
I don't particularly like being angry about stuff. I'd rather hang out with my daughter and write my little books. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
Dont judge me by how I look but by who I am...dont judge a book by its cover because you never know… — Tamara Bean Copy Share Image
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Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study,… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
Writing your name can lead to writing sentences. And the next thing you'll be doing is writing paragraphs, and then books. And… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I was also an Action Comic fan when I was a young kid and those comic books affected me and Superman is… — Charles Roven Copy Share Image
The Brangwens had lived for generations on the Marsh Farm, in the meadows where the Erewash twisted sluggishly through alder trees, separating… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
In a longish life as a professional writer, I have heard a thousand masterpieces talked out over bars, restaurant tables and love… — Morris West Copy Share Image
Sometimes people read a book in order to not go on a trip. You read a book instead of going on the… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office. — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
If I were asked what book is better than a cheap book, I should answer that there is one book better than… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Books can warm the heart with friendly words and counsel, entering into a close relationship with us which is articulate and alive — Petrarch Copy Share Image
The terrible thing about the Internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
I do write about thinkers. And that's what I love about reading. My favorite books, the ones that made me sit there… — Amy King Copy Share Image
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Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by… — Alice McDermott Copy Share Image
I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd… — Chad Hurley Copy Share Image
The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The image I had was very clear, and so in that way The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane began like other books. — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
I love to read different books on completely different subjects at the same time. I cannot focus on one. I read a… — Gustavo Dudamel Copy Share Image
I think a good book is one you can lose yourself in and find yourself in, and that's what I did with… — Vick Hope Copy Share Image