When I'm talking to someone I think 'can I use this dialogue in a book,'" said Luis. "If the answer is no… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“I'm not religious in the slightest, but there's something incredibly holy about books. It's a beautiful fusion of purpose and space,” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But I stayed up thinking about how I've been lying to him, no less than I lie to myself in my pre-sleep… — Zack Love Copy Share Image
So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to… — Blanche Wiesen Cook Copy Share Image
I'd always rather stand or fall on my own mistakes. There's nothing worse than looking back, in a published book, at a… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
When I found the book was condemned as soon as the book was printed, or rather as soon as it was set… — John Harvey Kellogg Copy Share Image
Writing is a way of living. It doesn't quite matter that there are too many books for the number of readers in… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
It's amazing that a man who is dead can talk to people through these pages. As long as this books survives, his… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
A book becomes a mirror, with the author's face shining over it. Talent only gives an imperfect image,--the broken glimmer of a… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep… — Sonam Kapoor Copy Share Image
I once jokingly told someone that every book is like a relationship. They're four or five years long - that's not so… — A.M. Homes Copy Share Image
“There are, you see, two ways of reading a book: you either see it as a box with something inside and start… — Gilles Deleuze Copy Share Image
“The book was sandwiched firmly between Analytic Keys to the Genera and Species of North American Mosses , and the Complete English-Russian… — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
... when one reflects on the books one never has written, and never may, though their schedules lie in the beautiful chirography… — Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Copy Share Image
I think art world will have consolidated, I think it will slow down a little bit. I think it will be less… — Will Gompertz Copy Share Image
Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Religious reasons, which is no reason. I notice Skeptic had a review of Dennett's book, Darwin's Dangerous Idea. Religious reasons amount to… — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All literature consists of whatever the writer thinks is cool. The reader will like the book to the degree that he agrees… — Steven Brust Copy Share Image
When I'm done with a book, I always give it to someone with expertise in the topic and tell them to flag… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
I think one should express opinions and these books are relatively opinionated. They would be a bit dry without it. — John Gimlette Copy Share Image
An artist should be well read in the best books, and thoroughly high bred, both in heart and bearing. In a word,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Life is a book of many chapters, some exciting and some challenging. Embrace the good times and ride the waves of everything… — Mary Crowley Copy Share Image
All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“Each reader is but one chapter in the life of a book, and unless he passes his knowledge on to others, it… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
I used to sit when I was a kid, from 14 or 15 on, with a book or a paper or a… — Milo Ventimiglia Copy Share Image
“Once I finish a book, especially a good one, it's very hard for me to start reading a new one right away.… — Dimitrios Spyridon Chytiris Copy Share Image
The book tells you everything you need to know. The book is the map of the world that you're in with the… — Gary Oldman Copy Share Image
The very same book, even if it is translated very accurately, let's say from Hebrew into English or from English into Hebrew,… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic. — Sadiq Khan Copy Share Image
I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more… — J. A. Jance Copy Share Image
The play has to work for the super fans, and not speak down to them, and yet it had to play to… — Colin Callender Copy Share Image
All of my sermons become books. I've been accused of having no unpublished thought. I encourage pastors to do that. I think… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I think I always have many ideas for books in my head. It's like a forest full of mushrooms. Some are big,… — Olga Tokarczuk Copy Share Image
“When you are old and grey and full of sleep And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
A reader can never tell if it's a real thimble or an imaginary thimble, because by the time you're reading it, they're… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff,… — John Fahey Copy Share Image
Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction… — Dan Simmons Copy Share Image