The great and good do no die even in this world. Embalmed in books, their spirits walk abroad. The book is a… — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“all over the world, the people always asked for the same thing: books. Sometimes even before medicine or shelter—they wanted books for… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“Before he had lost his sight, the maester had loved books as much as Samwell Tarly did. He understood the way that… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Read! Read something every day. Discipline yourself to a regular schedule of reading. In fifteen minutes a day you can read twenty… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
I'd already made the decision before I'd even read it-just because it was John Sayles. Then when I read it, the themes… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
If I had written a book saying, 'Ladies, your life is terrible,' I would have sold three copies. It's always better to… — Allison Pearson Copy Share Image
If you're 25 years old dressed up like Superman at a comic book convention, that's great. If you're 78 and you're doing… — Billy Bob Thornton Copy Share Image
I've bought pretty much every book ever written about the Alamo, and I talk to my friends that I've made over the… — Phil Collins Copy Share Image
Well, I didn't feel that I could do justice to this story of my parents and their generation, and all that they… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
The second challenge is to make sure that, growing up in this culture, they have a healthy view of life and God… — Alex Kendrick Copy Share Image
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I am writing this book because we're all going to die - In the loneliness of my own life, my father dead,… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
I sat there for several moments, trying to decide how best I should respond. None of the advice I'd gotten from the… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
The reflections and histories of men and women throughout the world are contained in books… America's greatness is not only recorded in… — Terence Cooke Copy Share Image
I think kids want the same thing from a book that adults want - a fast-paced story, characters worth caring about, humor,… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Over the years I have photographed thousands of people. I have never stopped being curious and trying to discover new worlds. I… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
“The value of books is proportionate to what may be called their plasticity -- their quality of being all things to all… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
Due attention to the inside of books, and due contempt for the outside, is the proper relation between a man of sense… — Earl Of Chesterfield Copy Share Image
The world is a library of strange and wonderful books, and sometimes we just need to go prowling through the stacks. — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“That is what a book is: a million little things, a thousand feelings, hundreds of experiences, all melted together and sculpted into… — Beth Revis Copy Share Image
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine… — Walter Martin Copy Share Image
“Childhood only comes around once. Make your child's memories special. Take them on a new adventure each day. It is as simple… — K. Lamb Copy Share Image
the damned book I am writing is like the driveling of a weak-kneed sea calf. If I were sufficiently strong minded, I… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
“As such, the first question you should be asking yourself isn’t “Is this a good book?” but "Is this really the story… — Rachel Aaron Copy Share Image
The only complete reading is that which transforms the book into a simultaneous network of reciprocal relations. — Jean Rousset Copy Share Image
Sometimes the best reading comes just by accident. Someone talks about a book, or you're just wandering the stacks in the library,… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
I often think that could we creep behind the actor's eyes, we would find an attic of forgotten toys and a copy… — Laurence Olivier Copy Share Image
History has been my primary intellectual passion ever since, as a boy in Southern California, I began reading books on World War… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
I write a column for The Village Voice, which I've done since time immemorial, and occasionally - and books. And I occasionally… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
“The strength of your book is your conflict. For many writers that sentence should read, “The strength of your book is your… — Debra Dixon Copy Share Image
If I had to name one book that has had the most lasting influence on my work, I would pick 'The Big… — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
With fiction, it could be about anything. It just has to be good writing, like Maria Semple's "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," which… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
The really cool thing about when you're playing a comic book character is that no one knows what he sounds like. — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
You don't have to burn books, you don't have to rebel against teachers to rebel; to rebel is to truly own your… — Dhani Harrison Copy Share Image
Poor kid,' Jenna says, and rolls her eyes toward me for a moment. Then she returns to her book. 'She doesn't even… — Lauren DeStefano Copy Share Image
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
Italy is full of historical buildings. And Europe holds a great history of philosophy from Greece until today. I read all those… — Tadao Ando Copy Share Image
“I hate anything superficial. But I will take the book and look at it, and tell you what I think of the… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
