It is a most gratifying sign of the rapid progress of our time that our best text-books become antiquated so quickly. — Theodor Billroth Copy Share Image
I grew up reading comics - mostly Marvel - Doctor Strange was my favourite comic book and has remained my favourite as… — Scott Derrickson Copy Share Image
“I wanted to give a sense of the people of the book, the different hands that had made it, used it, protected… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I think to be a writer, you have to enjoy being alone. I was a loner as a teenager and was always… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
sometimes after I finished a particularly good book, I had the urge to get the library card, find out who else had… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon is our handbook of instructions as we travel the pathway from bad to good to better and strive… — David A. Bednar Copy Share Image
We have organized lobbyists in favor of Israel. You can't open your mouth. I can call the president of the United States… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
Rule books tell people what to do. Frameworks guide people how to act. Rule books insist on discipline. Frameworks allow for creativity. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
I've always believed that poetry must speak of realities as least as complicated as those spoken of in prose. I've read books… — Lawrence Joseph Copy Share Image
It's certainly a cliche to remark that a nonfiction book 'reads just like a novel,' but in the case of Jonathan Eig's… — Paul Di Filippo Copy Share Image
It's actually not very hard to re-set between the adult novels and the ones for younger readers. The narrative voices are very… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction,… — James Morcan Copy Share Image
His attention caught, her companion raised his eyes from the book which lay open beside him on the table and directed them… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Early on in life I knew that I was a writer, that I just wanted to write, I love books, I love… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I didn't have a list of things I should do this year, next year, find a good novel, sign two stars and… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
The less you offer, the more readers are forced to bring the world to life with their own visual imaginings. I personally… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Sugar Ray and talked about doing some articles together or writing a book together but dealing with Sugar Ray was a lot… — Dick Schaap Copy Share Image
My books were always full of ink blots, always stained and covered with smeared sketches and pictures, which one draws idly when… — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
If children haven't been read to, they don't love books. They need to love books, for books are the basis of literature,… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I took time in the day to write as much of the book as I possibly could. I didn't write too much… — Drew Magary Copy Share Image
And if nobody reads me, shall I have wasted my time, when I have beguiled so many idle hours with such pleasant… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so… — Richard Curtis Copy Share Image
Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
To be honest, I don't know. I started one [book] back in 1982 or '83 when I first retired. But I was… — Sugar Ray Leonard Copy Share Image
I LOVED this book so much more than the movie. I read the book bofere seeing it at the movies was so… — Samantha Copy Share Image
The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
In that part of the book of my memory before which little can be read, there is a heading, which says: ‘Incipit… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
People seldom read a book which is given to them; and few are given. The way to spread a work is to… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I never outline. I don't work from an outline. I have no idea where the book is going. I mean, even two-thirds… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other… — Ice Cube Copy Share Image
I don't live in New York or California. I'm in the grocery store, at the park with my kids, and I'm a… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
I'm used to doing comic books, where every month there's a new comic book! I find that the movie business is not… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
It's going to be used in the last days to get people to come against Christ, and that's the issue: they come… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
Rereading 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' I was struck by what I had forgotten of the book: in a manner of pages, we… — Kevin Young Copy Share Image
When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The ones that were relevant while I wrote my book were books like "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, which is based on a… — Laila Lalami Copy Share Image
All the old houses that I knew when I was a child were full of books, bought generation after generation by members… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
[As a child] I was very interested in books that detailed injustice and how people who are underdogs were mistreated throughout history. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
Man was very fortunate to have invented the book. Without it, the past would completely vanish, and we would be left with… — James Salter Copy Share Image