My children's books are written on the belief that every child has a talent and a passion. Each story unfolds into an… — Masiela Lusha Copy Share Image
Especially since having children, a lot of the time if you ask me, 'Have you read that book?' the answer would be… — Claire Messud Copy Share Image
One reads thousands of books, of poets, modern and ancient, as one meets thousands of people. What remains of it all is… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just… — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite,… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
“The first book that I bought with my own money was "The Blue Aspic" by Edward Gorey. In fact, when the first… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
No one else can feel it for you only you can let it in no one else, no one else can speak… — Natasha Bedingfield Copy Share Image
People really need to take time and read a book. You know? That’s my advice. You could read A New Slant on… — John Travolta Copy Share Image
I tried to eliminate the need for Israel to strike out, militarily, by removing its major threat and attacker, and that was… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
“Esther liked books out where everyone could see them, a sort of graphic index to the intricate labyrinth of her mind arrayed… — William Gaddis Copy Share Image
Creation has the truth written all over it - the age of the universe, the history of the world - but nine-tenths… — Sheri S. Tepper Copy Share Image
The author with the greatest influence on me is my friend Stephen Harrigan, who critiques everything I write before I even bother… — Elizabeth Crook Copy Share Image
What do we tell our children? Haste makes waste. Look before you leap. Stop and think. Don't judge a book by its… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
O, there is lovely to feel a book, a good book, firm in the hand, for its fatness holds rich promise, and… — Richard Llewellyn Copy Share Image
If you take a book of a thousand pages on the Second World War, in which 50 million people died, the concentration… — Jean-Marie Le Pen Copy Share Image
I hope, too, that my book will illuminate my belief that love of art - be it poetry, storytelling, painting, sculpture, or… — Mary Ann Shaffer Copy Share Image
It's nice to have something else going on when a book comes out so you're not just sitting by the phone, waiting… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I like to think that I could praise the good book of someone I personally dislike. I try not to comment on… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
When the record book on you is finished, let it show your wins and losses. But don't let it show you didn't… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I don't think I could write a book that had an ideological plan going in - I think that would be a… — Megan Abbott Copy Share Image
I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and… — Gracie Allen Copy Share Image
Who knows whether in retirement I shall be tempted to the last infirmity of mundane minds, which is to write a book. — Geoffrey Fisher Copy Share Image
Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen Copy Share Image
My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading in order to write. A man will turn over half a… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
FBI Girl is touching and funny, inspiring and tragic, enlightening and sad. I closed the book with tears in my eyes and… — Beverly Donofrio Copy Share Image
When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
It's not a case of: 'Read this book and then you'll think differently. I've written this book, and I don't think differently. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
When it comes time to sit down and write the next book, you're deathly afraid that you're not up to the task.… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always… — Lurlene McDaniel Copy Share Image
I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've… — David Farr Copy Share Image
