I'm a project-based photographer; I think in narrative terms, the way a writer thinks of a book, or a filmmaker a film. — Alec Soth Copy Share Image
“This is a book about me, at what I hope is the beginning of the second half of my life and not… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
Personally, I am a hedonistic reader; I have never read a book merely because it was ancient. I read books for the… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“I remember a lecture from one of my lit classes about a theory called "Reader Response", which basically says: More often than… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
“It is a lovely oddity of human nature that a person is more inclined to interrupt two people in conversation than one… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, I think… — Eddie Campbell Copy Share Image
Books build a stairway to your imagination, that one day may become a Reality, with knowledge obtained through books. — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
There are a lot of books about how to get organized and a lot of books about how to be better and… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
There's a whole generation growing up thinking you shouldn't seek knowledge for its own sake, and that theatre and art and books… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I’ll be quite frank with you — I didn’t know about Hunger Games — so when I’m telling kids and they say,… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this:… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
My parents would frisk me before family events. Before weddings, funerals, bar mitzvahs, and what have you. Because if they didn't, then… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Few are sufficiently sensible of the importance of that economy in reading which selects, almost exclusively, the very first order of books.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You told us over and over that you don’t think you could live without books, but the ironic thing is, you’d probably… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
This is what makes me happy: ...Any music-free restaurant ... A grandson who offers to clean the snow off my driveway and… — Art Buchwald Copy Share Image
The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great… — Theodore Parker Copy Share Image
I was reading the poems of Rochester. Rochester made himself out to be bisexual, but I think that was only to shock.… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I feel that at any stage of my literary career it could have been said that the last book contained all the… — V. S. Naipaul Copy Share Image
A self-help book can't really address a problem unless it's individualized. It's not going to talk about a globalized problem. — Hank Azaria Copy Share Image
“Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life.… — Sophie Divry Copy Share Image
I like to make books. To me, it's just as great to have some book of mine be in a flea market… — Jack Pierson Copy Share Image
Selling one's book to Hollywood is rather like selling someone your house. After it's sold, it isn't yours anymore. They can paint… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
When I wrote the book, I thought that I was the hero of my story. And in writing it, I came to… — Trevor Noah Copy Share Image
I earn - I'm not - I don't want to claim I'm a scholar of great stature, but I have made a… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
... if we have a dollar to spend on some wild excess, we shall spend it on a book, not on asparagus… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould Copy Share Image
If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all… — Sir John Davies Copy Share Image
Any book that can help you survive the slings and arrows of adolescence is a book to love for life; 'The Catcher… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
And I came to understand, in a way I never had before, that books are truly the stuff of miracles. I even… — T.A. Barron Copy Share Image
“I have tread all three of his books and they held me spellbound interesting story. Its fiction based on fact...mmm I like!” — Harold Alvin Copy Share Image
Talk about burning books and burning bushes, I think that reading an effective novel can be like being immersed in fire and… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
The reader is not the customer. The retailer is the customer. So I try to have as much interaction with the retailers… — Kelly Sue DeConnick Copy Share Image
I wanted to achieve something because I thought that we should not just be born and live, so I started writing books. — Chef Damu Copy Share Image
Every book is three books, after all; the one the writer intended, the one the reader expected, and the one that casts… — John M. Ford Copy Share Image
I have both experienced and witnessed a great deal of suffering in my life, and that has informed my art. I'm here… — C.E. Morgan Copy Share Image
Take your time, however long the book needs. I've seen a lot of promising careers go into decline because writers succumbed to… — Sylvia Day Copy Share Image
It's ironic: In movies, the most successful films of all time have been sci-fi or fantasy. By far. But a lot of… — David S. Goyer Copy Share Image
A life of writing books is a trying adventure in which you cannot find out where you are unless you lose your… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
