This book was written in those long hours I spent waiting for my wife to get dressed to go out. And if… — Groucho Marx Copy Share Image
“As someone who has to teach for a living, I shouldn't be saying this, but the planet can do quite well without… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
My reading list grows exponentially. Every time I read a book, it'll mention three other books I feel I have to read.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ten guards and the warden couldn't have torn me out of those books. Months passed without even thinking about being imprisoned…I had… — Malcolm X Copy Share Image
I'm a geek of all general types. I like a little bit of everything, I love comic books, I love pro-wrestling, I… — Ron Funches Copy Share Image
Morally and philosophically I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it: and not only in agreement with it, but… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and… — John Updike Copy Share Image
Sometimes words need music too. Sometimes the descriptions are not enough. Books should be written with soundtracks, like films. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Sticklers never read a book without a pencil at hand, to correct the typographical errors. In short, we are unattractive know-all obsessives… — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day… — Ashwin Sanghi Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, back in the '40s, I was a voracious comic book reader. And at that time, there was… — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
The books of jurisprudence were interesting to few, and entertaining to none: their value was connected with present use, and they sunk… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
If you look at all the comic book films that have come since then, in terms of tone, in terms of look,… — Michael Uslan Copy Share Image
Matthew is the only gospel that uses the Sermon on the Mount, for example, because that's the new Moses making a new… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail;… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
This would be...a book that would be a trapdoor down into some place dark. A place only you could go, alone, when… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
[T]he one thing I want for you is to recognize when you are really singing in writing practice and honor that. Trust… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
Each my book feels like my last book. And then I think, like a dedicated alcoholic, that one more won't do me… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
REVELATION, n. A famous book in which St. John the Divine concealed all that he knew. The revealing is done by the… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
There's something touching about a kid who's reading a book that's printed on actual paper. I think that anything that kids start… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite. — Novalis Copy Share Image
What one knows best is ... what one has learned not from books but as a result of books, through the reflections… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents… — Bob Hope Copy Share Image
When I get to a point in my book writing when I don't know what I'm going to do next, I'll come… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to… — Horace Copy Share Image
From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
There weren't any curtains in the windows, and the books that didn't fit into the bookshelf lay piled on the floor like… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty; but learn to be happy alone. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
It is profound philosophy to sound the depths of feeling and distinguish traits of character. Men must be studied as deeply as… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
We still have books because they are so brilliantly suited to the way human beings absorb information and at their best, they… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
It is the same with anything - you have to learn through your own experience, paying your own way. You can't learn… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
When it comes to actually writing the book/story, I work on a computer. I wish I could write longhand, but I can't. — Paul G. Tremblay Copy Share Image
The true system of the World has been recognized, developed and perfected...Everything has been discussed and analysed, or at least mentioned. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and change… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
The music is the emotional substance of the show; the book just sets it up. Nobody goes to a musical to hear… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
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