Books are necessary to correct the vices of the polite; but those vices are ever changing, and the antidote should be changed… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
When you read books, you kind of create that whole world in your mind, and you go on a journey with the… — Mary Steenburgen Copy Share Image
The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A portrait of the young Charlie Parker with a degree of vivid detail never before approached. . . [Kansas City Lightning is]… — Tom Piazza Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of skills, but one thing I can do is, I can compartmentalize. I can make that a… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
If you are a responsible scientist, you are going to present your new results in a paper, and maybe if, over time,… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
I write titles that are confrontational. I write titles that make people want to pick up a book and find out more… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book and a… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow… — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
It is true, Monsieur," Raoule went on, shrugging her shoulders, "that I have had lovers in my life as I have books… — Rachilde Copy Share Image
I have always loved and avidly read the novels of Jack London, Jules Verne and Ernest Hemingway. The characters depicted in their… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
A bran' new book is a beautiful thing, all promise and fresh pages, the neatly squared spine, the brisk sense of a… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
All the books that were being published by African-American guys were saying 'screw whitey', or some variation of that. Not the scholars… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
The library was home away from home to my mom, and my family. We had spent every Sunday afternoon there since I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
So are you turning out like them? Do you still write and draw?" "yeah, but I don't do anything personnal or profound.… — Elizabeth Chandler Copy Share Image
My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some… — Vladimir Kramnik Copy Share Image
The new illiteracy is about more than not knowing how to read the book or the word; it is about not knowing… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Kafka noted in a letter to his friend Oskar Pollak that “some books seem like a key to unfamiliar rooms in one’s… — David Mikics Copy Share Image
'Weedflower' was already in the copyediting phase when I heard about the Newbery award, so it didn't really influence my writing of… — Cynthia Kadohata Copy Share Image
When I near the end of a book, it feels as if the entire universe meets me more than halfway and supports… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Through the use of books I had the whole world at my feet: could travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything.” — Benjamin Carson Copy Share Image
People who are reading my books, or who are thinking about it, have some general idea about the concept of strategy. They're… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The TV audience is way bigger than a book audience, and no matter what I do, I'm always thinking if this will… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
I want it absolutely clear when I stand before the judgement bar of God that I declared to the world, in the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Now...in an abundant society where people have laptops, cell phones, ipods and minds like empty rooms, I still plod along with books. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When a movie based on a book comes out, people always say that the book is always better than the movie. So… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
An empty book is like an infant's soul, in which anything may be written. It is capable of all things, but containeth… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
In any novel I write, I have in my mind several things which happened in the protagonist's past which I never mention… — Roger Zelazny Copy Share Image
We are indebted to the Book of books (Bible) for our national ideals and institution. Their preservation rests in adhering to it's… — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
If youve bought a ticket to see me perform, youre heroes in my book. Youre better than the people who didnt buy… — Paul Sinha Copy Share Image
I've written a lot of books now; I've been published for over 30 years. I hope with every book I learn something… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Marvelous! Very exciting. I thoroughly enjoyed the story and I can't wait to read more." (About the book Dominique Ick Lessont and… — Stephen Noce Copy Share Image
I live to play music, and hang out with my wife and kid, and hang out with my friends, and discover the… — Mark Hoppus Copy Share Image
I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
As a writer, you always read in two minds: You read as a reader and you enjoy it, and you look at… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image