Medicine is learned by the bedside and not in the classroom. Let not your conceptions of disease come from words heard in… — William Osler Copy Share Image
“In business, if you want to make money, you have to spend money. If you want to have a result, you have… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The Book of Job is advice on how to live in terms of the absolute power of nature. Leviathan is advice on… — Donald Phillip Verene Copy Share Image
Regency literature was too coal-y for me, too long-winded and describey. I preferred modern books where you had to read other books… — Sara Pascoe Copy Share Image
If some event happens and it seems really important to me and moving to me, I'll write it down in my lyric… — Amy Ray Copy Share Image
I would probably have been very content as a scholar to have carried on organising exhibitions and writing books and teaching, — Thomas P. Campbell Copy Share Image
Hands down, the biggest thrill is to get a letter from a kid saying, I loved your book. Will you write me… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year. I… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I'll tell you what is insidious about the Disney Princess, besides the fact that if you look into their merchandise, the 26,000… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
Life is not bad, and it doesn't look more real if it's ugly or it's gritty. Think of your own life. Most… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
But nothing on this earth is guaranteed, when you get right down to it, you know ? I've been thinking about that.… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
As time has gone on and we're at the end of the 20th century and major publishing is a big business, yes,… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
You have very accurately described the difficulty of presenting my books on film: many of my characters are alone most of the… — Thomas Perry Copy Share Image
An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I learned very early on not to speak to my folk from on high, but to get down with them, beside them,… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
“A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“Marking a book is literally an expression of your differences or your agreements with the author. It is the highest respect you… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“But you're kind of like a great book…you know, you pick up a book at the bookstore because it has a beautiful… — Miranda Kenneally Copy Share Image
We need to be celebrating those who serve us rather than mocking them for the purpose of getting on TV and selling… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
In terms of fiction, I'd rather go out and have a good time than read a book about someone having a good… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
It started out as a typically insane idea to map every part of the published text in terms of its manuscript provenance… — Oliver Harris Copy Share Image
First rule of writing: When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I'm always imposing my taste in books on others. I hope that people enjoy being surprised by a book they might not… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until… — Eugene Field Copy Share Image
I grew, a happy, healthy child in a bright world of illustrated books, clean sand, orange trees, friendly dogs, sea vistas and… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap… — Nick Laird Copy Share Image
I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
In an age when all that was old seems new again, Bernard DeVoto's The Hour couldn't have made a more timely reappearance.… — Graydon Carter Copy Share Image
“Real life is a story too, only much more complicated...the world is a library and you'll never get to read the same… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
I rewrite my books until they're mostly memorized so that's a lot of rewrites, a lot of time spent with my stories. — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I surrendered all my privacy to write this book. It was so hard and so painful. I went through so much crazy… — Park Yeon-mi Copy Share Image
Listen, I wrote 10 unsuccessful books before I broke through, so I'm looking all the time to keep my books fascinating. I… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
That's why I haven't been so anxious. But now, lots of people write and say, 'I want to find out what you're… — Ornette Coleman Copy Share Image
Books are like rocks. You hold one in your hand and look at it in various lights to get a sense of… — John Darnielle Copy Share Image
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
I never thought that Spider-Man would become the world wide icon that he is. I just hoped the books would sell and… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I was a book lover from the beginning. I loved, love, words and images and ideas, the ways a book can make… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
They say in every library there is a single book that can answer the question that burns like a fire in the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do… — Oswald Chambers Copy Share Image
