I fancy mankind may come, in time, to write all aphoristically, except in narrative; grow weary of preparation, and connection, and illustration,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The notion of love as a potentially destructive and potentially redemptive human force is something that comes across in all my books. — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
Who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the… — John Milton Copy Share Image
I am at a loss to reconcile the expensive and glossy production values of this book with the breathtaking inanity of the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Many years ago, I had the pleasure of editing a book by Joan Crawford, who, like Norma Desmond, was still a big… — Michael Korda Copy Share Image
I sense people expect something to show for ten years. But I do feel like it is dense. Some of my own… — Danielle Dutton Copy Share Image
I think of my own work as part of a decades-long conversation about books and reading with people I will mainly never… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and… — Dee Brown Copy Share Image
I've read over 4,000 books in the last 20+ years. I don't know anybody who's read more books than I have. I… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
In Leading with Honor, Lee uses gripping stories from the POW camps to engage the reader and teach invaluable principles of leadership.… — William R. Looney III Copy Share Image
Writing is a job, a craft, and you learn it by trying to write every day and by facing the page with… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
My favorite book in the Bible is always Proverbs because it's where you can find wisdom for no matter what you're going… — Torii Hunter Copy Share Image
David Corbett has combined his unique talents as a gifted writer and an extraordinary teacher to create a superb resource on character… — Sheldon Siegel Copy Share Image
Since the first announcement of 'Korra' a few years ago, our fan presence online has just been huge and it's really active… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
In a book, you can describe a scene and have any song you want playing on the radio and have any painting… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
It appeared that after first contemplating a book on some subject, and after giving serious preliminary attention to it, I needed a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
The inspiration of a single book has made preachers, poets, philosophers, authors, and statesmen. On the other hand, the demoralization of a… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
I've been really fortunate in that I guess I was hired to do 'A Cook's Tour;' I was already a known quantity,… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is… — Janine Turner Copy Share Image
I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If I had, say, a tall, amateur male lead living on the campus of a rural college (Six Years), the next book… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
I loved comic books. I loved Miss Marvel. I talk about Harley Quinn all the time because I think playing villains is… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
Although I did admire David Foster Wallace's final unfinished novel about boredom, I'm no DFW, and I want my books to be… — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
Read, Read, and then Read some more. Always Read. Find the voices that speak most to YOU. This is your pleasure and… — Naomi Shihab Nye Copy Share Image
You write a book and you hope somebody will go out and pay $24.95 for what you've just said. I think books… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
The mind is not a book, to be opened at will and examined at leisure. Thoughts are not etched on the inside… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The product of paper and printed ink, that we commonly call the book, is one of the great visible mediators between spirit… — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
My books are often shelved around those of Chinua Achebe and Margaret Atwood, or Chimamanda Adichie and Monica Ali. All of this… — Chris Abani Copy Share Image
For a good book has this quality, that it is not merely a petrifaction of its author, but that once it has… — Spencer Tracy Copy Share Image
“As long as you have any floor space at all, you have room for books! Just make two stacks of books the… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
He will find one English book and one only, where, as in the "Iliad" itself, perfect plainness of speech is allied with… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Two guys, one girl, and the mess they can create amongst themselves may be the oldest story in the book, but it… — Neha Sharma Copy Share Image
I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books… — Chetan Bhagat Copy Share Image
A major theme in all my books is that the CIA is not only the first line of defense but they should… — Vince Flynn Copy Share Image
For out of old fields, as men saith, Cometh all this new corn from year to year; And out of old books,… — Geoffrey Chaucer Copy Share Image
It wasn't until my fifth or sixth book where I realized I'm trying to do the same thing in every story I… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
A Creator must exist. The Big Bang ripples and subsequent scientific findings are clearly pointing to an ex nihilo creation consistent with… — Henry F. Schaefer, III Copy Share Image
I remember when I first started being in magazines, I had pretty thin skin. I was this nerd that read books and… — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
The world has been printing books for 450 years, and yet gunpowder still has a wider circulation. Never mind! Printer's ink is… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
A book collection is a cross between a Rorschach test and This Is Y our Life. It marks your life clearly like… — Margo Kaufman Copy Share Image
