The bands I like, they don't sell too many records and the girls I like, they don't kiss too many boys. Books… — Frank Turner Copy Share Image
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Being gay, the last time I looked, had nothing to do with reading a balance book, fixing a broken bone or changing… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air that the Ramones "I Wanna… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
A library's function is to give the public in the quickest and cheapest way: information, inspiration, and recreation. If a better way… — Melvil Dewey Copy Share Image
I get most of my reading done whenever I'm in the airport waiting on a flight, have some time to kill, and… — Mannie Fresh Copy Share Image
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Meadowlark Lemon's book Trust Your Next Shot is written by a remarkable person. I have had the pleasure of knowing Meadowlark for… — Lenny Wilkens Copy Share Image
“You don’t know that my books do good?’ ‘No, I don’t know. I know that men are already getting past “novels” without… — M.P. Shiel Copy Share Image
Daniel Handler's a writer, musician and the author of, among other things, the "Series Of Unfortunate Events" books. He also wrote the… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Born originals, how comes it to pass that we die copies? That meddling ape imitation, as soon as we come to years… — Edward Young Copy Share Image
The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters… — Randy Pausch Copy Share Image
I imagine a child. That child is me. I can reconstruct and vividly remember portions of my own childhood. I can see,… — Daniel Pinkwater Copy Share Image
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up… — Garrett Hedlund Copy Share Image
With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch,… — Ibrahim Babangida Copy Share Image
I just believe in the movie. I don't care what the book was like. I don't care what the previous film was… — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
“ The soap in the bathroom, the flowers in the garden, the book on the bedside table are all strong symbols of… — Charlotte Moss Copy Share Image
If I were a maker of books I should compile a register, with comments, of different deaths. He who should teach people… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
...what will we someday do, I always wonder, without the pleasures of turning through books and stumbling on things we never meant… — Elizabeth Kostova Copy Share Image
Some read to think, these are rare; some to write, these are common; and some read to talk, and these form the… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Some books are like an hors d'oeuvre - light, tasty and leaving you longing for the main course which is never going… — Ann Widdecombe Copy Share Image
People who've read my reviews know my tastes, know how I approach a book, know my background. I can write with believable… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
“Where's your common sense? None of those books agree with each other. You've been locked up here for years with a regular… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The Book of Mormon offers so much that broadens our understandings of the doctrines of salvation. Without it, much of what is… — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“The 1976 album, Rising, is a fucking classic and you should put this book down, fire up the internet and listen to it.” — Andrew O'Neill Copy Share Image
. . . finally, I couldn't imagine how I could live without books, and I stopped dreaming about marrying that Chinese prince. . . . — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
I did not intend to write a funny book, at first. I did not know I was a humorist. I have never… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Shakespeare to be the world's greatest dramatic poet, but regret that no parent could place the uncorrected book in the… — Thomas Bowdler Copy Share Image
Leaving behind the babble of the plaza, I enter the Library. I feel, almost physically, the gravitation of the books, the enveloping… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I wanted each of my books to be very different from the others, each to be special and uncategorizable, and I knew… — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
In school I was painfully shy. But as soon as I had to get up in front of the class and give… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
Religion, it stops people from thinking because they think all the answers are in that one book; it impedes progress; it justifies… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“Every book is a time machine, a flying carpet, a passport to the most powerful nation in the world… your imagi-nation!” — Mike Thaler Copy Share Image
Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
When I'm not writing or tweaking my computer, I do embroidery. When I'm not plunging into the past, tweaking, or embroidering, I'm… — Lynn Abbey Copy Share Image
REVIEW, v.t. To set your wisdom (holding not a doubt of it./ Although in truth there's neither bone nor skin to it)/… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I write abundantly. And then my next step is to struggle to reduce the ornament, to reduce the abundance-to prune the book,… — James Wright Copy Share Image
For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes. — Whitey Herzog Copy Share Image
I thought I would keep the first name Susan and change the last name but I picked up this book and as… — Morgan Brittany Copy Share Image
