Most of the stats say that 90% of people who buy a book or check one out of a library would never… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
Great books are written for Christianity much oftener than great deeds are done for it. City libraries tell us of the reign… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
I was learning book-keeping at the age of 12, but it never stopped me from pursuing literature. Over the years, I grew… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
I'd like to think that my scripts are more significant than maybe the Bible or the book that the Jews use, whatever… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
Im lucky enough to work with, I think, the greatest writer theres ever been, Shakespeare. Whose collected works would always be under… — Samuel West Copy Share Image
I'm very interested, in all my books, in community, what binds people together, which I think is an obvious consequence of being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It eventually appeared to be me, cinematically. When I was writing it I was actually an author, you know, writing a book.… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I have to admit that I was terrified of ending the book, precisely because I go around saying about pretty much every… — Karan Mahajan Copy Share Image
Sometimes listening to music can motivate you. It can. But if you're a musician, that isn't always the way to get new… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
Perusing colorful storylines on the backs of book jackets, I realized that none of them could possibly be as dramatic as my… — Sarah Kay Copy Share Image
Good writing and dark wit always excite me and they come together thrillingly in this book. It has a quiet grip on… — Jenny Diski Copy Share Image
At the very end of a book I can manage to work for longer stretches, but mostly, making stuff up for three… — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
People flock in, nevertheless, in search of answers to those questions only librarians are considered to be able to answer, such as… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I remember how a man once got in touch with me to tell me that he was so engrossed in my book… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
“The name of the book was The Big Board. He got a few paragraphs into it, and then he realized that he… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“This book not only depicts dramatically, but at the same time demonstrates by what might be termed a mathematic method, the impossibility… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to… — Lawrence Kasdan Copy Share Image
The only advice I can give to aspiring writers is to write the book that you would want to read, and hope… — Ruth Ware Copy Share Image
I do have to say that I think that President Obama is the greatest President in the history of all of our… — Denis Leary Copy Share Image
There is no radical or moderate Islam. There is only one Islam and that is the Islam from the Koran, the holy… — Geert Wilders Copy Share Image
“because a book lets your imagination soar and a movie makes all the decisions for you. A book is almost always, but… — Dorothea Benton Frank Copy Share Image
If I'm in a state about a book, I'll get up at 6 A.M. and write before breakfast, but usually I'll start… — Claire Tomalin Copy Share Image
I'm encouraging these women, like Cheryl Strayed, to take the jump to writing for the screen. She is adapting her book Tiny… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
My first audition for 'The Magicians' came up in conversation with a close friend who, right then, handed me the first book. — Hale Appleman Copy Share Image
“Library? That sounded reasonable. As my thoughts revolved around my days surrounded by books, something miraculous happened. My anger subsided. It ebbed… — Rebecca Maizel Copy Share Image
Teacher: Where is your book? Student: At home. Teacher: What's it doing there? Student: Having more fun than me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes, before you make any plans or resolutions, before you declare your heroic intent to persevere, you just have to cry.” — Jaclyn Dolamore Copy Share Image
I’m one of those very lucky people who absolutely love what they do for a living. There is no career better suited… — Mary Pope Osborne Copy Share Image
I started writing while I was a little boy. Maybe it's because I was reading a lot of books I admired, and… — Naguib Mahfouz Copy Share Image
I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy… — Ben Miller Copy Share Image
While other kids were out playing and doing healthy things, I read an ancient judo book with a neck hold that was… — Dick Cavett Copy Share Image
“Learning to read – really read, that is, to spend hours alone lost in a book – requires example and solitude, and… — Andrew Cook Copy Share Image
It would be a crime against [Twilight] audience to go R-rated... [Yet the rating] is based on a much more mature book… — Wyck Godfrey Copy Share Image
It was pure guesswork on my part back in 1979 as to whether I would have the stamina to write, pencil, ink,… — Dave Sim Copy Share Image
[Jimmy] Breslin's [write] really great book on Branch Rickey. And Branch Rickey himself wrote quite a lot. There's some film and kinescope… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
One need never be dull as long as one has friends to help, gardens to enjoy and books in the long winter… — D.E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“I believe that the choice of a first book, the book that opens your eyes and quickens your soul, is as involuntary… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Future years will never know the seething hell and the black infernal background, the countless minor scenes and interiors of the secession… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Ah, books." Ziegler, smiling, came up behind me. "They bob like corks on an ocean. Float between worlds, messages in bottles. — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image