Honorary degrees and lifetime achievement awards are very encouraging. I know that it might sound strange that a writer who has published… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“I suspect it may be like the difference between a drinker and an alcoholic; the one merely reads books, the other needs… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
The Guinness book is a very elitist organization. There's nothing scientific about what they do. They just have an office full of… — Jack White Copy Share Image
“He who doesn't see the essence of books shall surely be ruled by those who find and value the real essence of… — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah Copy Share Image
“Who reads detailed contracts, articles or books anymore? That's why I shrunk my giant book into a Picturebook! But...Contracts & finance have… — Lisa Goldin Copy Share Image
You know I used to be the back porch poet with my book of lines, always hoping knowing all the time, I'm… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
A friend is like a book that has to be read to appreciate its beauty. As such, you're one of the finest… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I grew up in a house full of books, and we belonged to the Country Lending Service - each month the State… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
Inspiration comes from books, music, films and of course, living memories and life experiences, my own and those of people I've known… — Suhayl Saadi Copy Share Image
You don't want to be slavishly doing the same thing over and over again that everybody else has done, but at the… — Matt Nix Copy Share Image
The Bible is forbidding when you start to read it. The language is odd. The stories start and stop herkily-jerkily. The characters… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
How thrilling to discover one had depths, how consoling to find them less polluted than the shallows, how encouraging to identify the… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Sought we the Scrivani word-work of Surthur Long-long in ledger all hope forgotten Yet fast-found for friendship fair the book-bringer Hot comes… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Books are pleasant, but if by being over-studious we impair our health and spoil our good humour, two of the best things… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
If you're reading an exciting book, it raises an expectation but it also raises a fear that the author is not going… — Jonathan W. Galassi Copy Share Image
Bill Evans is a real serious jazz pianist who, in my book, crossed over boundaries in terms of color. He used the… — Roberta Flack Copy Share Image
The book Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, I read it when I was about 17-and-a-half or 18. It changed my life. — John Lewis Copy Share Image
Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what… — Judith Krantz Copy Share Image
A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, one learned very early that books had to be respected; they were all putative Bibles and to some small degree had… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
I read 'The First Bad Man' by Miranda July, and I just thought, 'Oh my God, I'll never be this good. That… — Jenny Mollen Copy Share Image
I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door… — Martin Buber Copy Share Image
There was an agent who wanted to book me for Glee. He lied and said I could sing. He was like, "If… — Zach Anner Copy Share Image
Better than all measures Of delightful sound, Better than all treasures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
She is a real bookworm. I think she lives on print. Her whole house is full of books - looks as if… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I don't think that Slaughterhouse-Five was successful movie material. In fact, Vonnegut's books mostly I don't feel are movie material. — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
I get absolutely ruthless in my own way about not doing anything else when I am trying to concentrate on writing a… — Jane Jacobs Copy Share Image
“It is through your experience you find out who you really are and who you are is from finding your own experience… — Charleston Parker Copy Share Image
As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to… — Jonathan Coe Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book because I had formed a strong impression that the people currently living were paying insufficient attention to the… — Niall Ferguson Copy Share Image
The wine urges me on, the bewitching wine, which sets even a wise man to singing and to laughing gently and rouses… — Homer Copy Share Image
Yes, the stories are dangerous, she was right. A book is a magic carpet that flies you off elsewhere. A book is… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The simplest comment on my book came from my ballet teacher. She said, "I wish you hadn't made every line funny. It's… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“you get nothing else from this book, know this: your deceased loved ones are loving, guiding, and protecting you from the Other… — Theresa Caputo Copy Share Image
I think reading about black girls if you are a black girl is important. And for those who don't like to read,… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
It gives me a very keen satisfaction that, after listening to my blather all those years, former students are now seeing that… — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“Burning books is not as horrible as burning people, because books, contrary to men, are not unique and ideas are fireproof!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
I'm happy if my book makes you want to kiss your family... if we can reconcile with each other no matter where… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
