I like writing books. I'd rather be at home with my wife. I can write, take a break, come out, have a… — Gene Wilder Copy Share Image
“And then when I got home I burrowed about among my books, arranging their volumes and loving the feel of them.” — Elizabeth von Arnim Copy Share Image
I walked into my own book, seeking peace. It was night, and I made a careless movement inside the dream; I turned… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
Being a stranger was like being dead, and brought to mind how, in a book he had read that most folks misunderstood… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
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This book is dedicated to all of my friends who helped me get to where I am today - you know who… — Lewis Black Copy Share Image
In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“I must confess to generally hating sections entitled “how to read this book” and so on. I feel that, if I bought… — Paul Taylor Copy Share Image
I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I often hear people say that they read to escape reality, but I believe that what they’re really doing is reading to… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a… — Phylicia Rashad Copy Share Image
One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the… — Leon Henkin Copy Share Image
“That’s what books do. They are the building blocks, the DNA, if you will, of you. Think of everything you have ever… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
My book, Oral History: Understanding Qualitative Research is about how researchers use this method and how to write up their oral history… — Patricia Leavy Copy Share Image
“Many people who are simplifying their lives and trying to live with less, exclude books from the decluttering process.” — Courtney Carver Copy Share Image
[the best advice about women] was from Robert Evans. The line was in his book, but he told me, "When it comes… — Slash Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of books that are almost languorous in their storytelling. That is a little bit lost sometimes in the modern… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
I don't put a lot of description in the books because I write books the way I like to read them, and… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“This book is about love and art and change and fear. It’s about overcoming a multigenerational conspiracy designed to sap your creativity… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
It appears these days I don't have much of a life because my nose is often stuck in a book. But I… — Gary Soto Copy Share Image
I don't talk about my books while I'm writing them: not even my husband knows what a novel's about until it's done. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I want to be seen here in my simple, natural, ordinary fashion, without straining or artifice; for it is myself that I… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
It has no meaning, what do you use to write, the only thing that is important is: what do you write. A… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
I read some books that were the right books for me. I read them and I didn't even notice turning the pages… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I love the way that each book -- any book -- is its own journey. You open it, and off you go.… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
“I like how books let you into another world, but how it's secret. Like, when you read, the world you see is… — Clare Fisher Copy Share Image
I like to think of my books and the movies of my books living in two separate universes. Each is very nice,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Do they sense it, these dead writers, when their books are read? Does a pinprick of light appear in their darkness? Is… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
The only joy I had was writing what was. That book was. It no longer amuses me to be all the things… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
What I see in the book is an exquisite form of technology: one that doesn't require a power source and can be… — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
“I learned a long time ago to never judge a book by its cover. It seems what people try to represent on… — L.B. Simmons Copy Share Image
That was how the heroine of a book would play it and Diana was still writing her own story the best heroines… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
Priest is a fisherman and Holy Book is a fishook. We either refuse to be a fish or we burn in the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I think parents should know what their children are reading, and if they truly object, they should tell their kids why, rather… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The best book in the world to put into the hands of one who desires to know about Jesus and to be… — R. A. Torrey Copy Share Image
I think every book is a reaction to everything you're written before, and most immediately to the book you wrote just before. — David Bezmozgis Copy Share Image