A good 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
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books. — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
“Arthur felt as though he were being read like a book, and wondered whether this girl would like his story.” — Kiersten White Copy Share Image
I jerk off inside books and give life to words, leaving concepts stuck together you probably never heard. — Immortal Tech Copy Share Image
“You think of me like a book?' 'Of course,' she said. 'To open your pages is to be taken into another world.” — Beatrice Colin Copy Share Image
At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort… — Alanis Morissette Copy Share Image
You must talk to me, Caravaggio. Or am I just a book? Something to be read, some creature to be tempted out… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Words mean more than we mean to express when we use them: so a whole book ought to mean a great deal… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
I am often asked why I use a variety of pen names. The answer is that this way readers always know which… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
You can do so much crazy stuff with books that isn't necessarily being done. That's how culture stays alive - by doing… — Ryan North Copy Share Image
“I wasn’t going to compromise. I wanted the guy in the books. The book boyfriend must come to life. Otherwise there was… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Everyone's waiting for the seventh book, and looking at each other saying, 'Oh, I wonder will I be in the running? — Brendan Gleeson Copy Share Image
Freedom and confidence are two different things, in my book. Confidence is overrated - it can be faked, whereas freedom is fearlessness. — Emily Weiss Copy Share Image
Whole great chunks of written history are of little value to the psychohistorian, while other vast areas which have been much neglected… — Lloyd deMause Copy Share Image
One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting… — Samantha Hunt Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
When you read a great book, you don’t escape from life, you plunge deeper into it. There may be a superficial escape… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given… — Corrie Ten Boom Copy Share Image
“Books on the bookshelves And stacked on the floor Books kept in baskets And propped by the door Books in neat piles… — L.R. Knost Copy Share Image
“We have every book you’ll need,” Mr. Reynolds said with a wink behind his Coke-bottle glasses. “Just ask.” “Every book I’ll ever… — Tiffany Reisz Copy Share Image
I can’t talk about my books. I have written them and tried to forget them. I have written once, and readers have… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
