“The reader will pardon us another little digression; foreign to the object of this book but characteristic and useful . . . .” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“The lead-up to the moment was magical in every respect, but a part of me was, and still is, uneasy about the… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
As a child, we couldn't afford holidays overseas, so instead I travelled through books. I was inspired by Dr Dolittle and Tarzan. — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The time that it takes to make the feature is really contingent on the feature being sort of almost ready-made - so… — Debra Granik Copy Share Image
You have to be smart enough to see the world for yourself and honest. The whole book-publicity thing is not really honest,… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
I was as bad as it gets. What I wrote in the book, I was probably worse than that. I couldn't really… — Reginald Arvizu Copy Share Image
“I spent my life folded between the pages of books.In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
If you want to purchase and view a book at your local bookstore or public library, you should have the right to… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
“Why does the same book elicit such a range of responses? There must be something in the particular reader that leaps out… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
When I'm really into a novel, I'm seeing the world differently during that time— not just for the hour or so in… — Colin Firth Copy Share Image
Our families may be corrupted by worldly trends and teachings unless we know how to use the [Book of Mormon] to expose… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
My daughter is seven, and some of the other second-grade parents complain that their children don't read for pleasure. When I visit… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The legal system doesn't always serve as a good guide for your conscience. You can step way over the ethical line and… — Price Pritchett Copy Share Image
There is a sort of knowledge beyond the power of learning to bestow, and this is to be had in conversation; so… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
As for thinking time versus writing time, well, that's up to you. But - and I wish it were otherwise - books… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
A book can just be a description of a stick being snapped in half. If the reader is brought to feel the… — Jesse Ball Copy Share Image
No one who hired Siegfried & Roy was shocked when they brought a tiger onstage. So you shouldn't be shocked if you… — Adam Conover Copy Share Image
If we can put a man on the moon and sequence the human genome, we should be able to devise something close… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing or working on books as a publisher, I'm doing things that make me happy. One is skiing with… — Andrea Davis Pinkney Copy Share Image
A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
I can easily do without people (there are days when I could easily do without myself), and ... in the country of… — Adrienne Monnier Copy Share Image
I was incredibly lucky that my first book found a large and loyal readership. It changed my life - from being a… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
I'm, like, a real nerd, in that I will take a book that is three inches thick and disappear and not leave… — Julia Jones Copy Share Image
Books are really, really hard to write. They represent a kind of a summit of grappling with what one really has to… — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
When I am grown up I shall carry a notebook—a fat book with many pages, methodically lettered. I shall enter my phrases. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“...I believe it important to emphasize how strongly I feel that books, just like people, have a destiny. Some invite sorrow, others… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
When I first thought about writing the book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I never originally meant to have children in it… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
You know you have a gambling problem when it's 4 A.M. at the Mirage Sports Book and you're walking around going, 'Hey… — Artie Lange Copy Share Image
The final lesson a writer learns is that everything can nourish the writer. The dictionary, a new word, a voyage, an encounter,… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
When former Defense Secretary Robert Gates wrote his recent book, 'Duty', it was full of tough assessments and candor. — John Dickerson Copy Share Image
Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Every time we pick up a book from a sense of duty and we find that we're struggling to get through it,… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
My favorite new character isn't new, but more fleshed out - Gadd, the alekeep at the Tunnel. He's got him some teeth… — Paul S. Kemp Copy Share Image
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was, three shelves… — Sean Astin Copy Share Image
I am really impressed by lawyers who write books and tell us that they never lost a case. Most lawyers who have… — Floyd Abrams Copy Share Image
In the words of Agatha Swanburne, founder of Swanburne Academy, 'Every book is judged by its cover until it is read.' — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
Where are you originally from?” “The planet Lorien, three hundred million miles away.” “Must have been a long trip, John Smith.” “Took… — Pittacus Lore Copy Share Image
Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
My next book is Scene by Scene: as Seen by Fay Wray. It'll be about different incidents. Just my feelings about quite… — Fay Wray Copy Share Image
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