The ideas aren't that important. Really they aren't. Everyone's got an idea for a book, a movie, a story, a TV series. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The fullest instruction, and the fullest enjoyment are never derived from books, till we have ventilated the ideas thus obtained in free… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
And the world said, Child, you will not be missed. You are cheaper than a wrench, your back is a road; Your… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
I like stories about people. I like things that are human and different. I want to be as engaged in my work… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
'The Good Soldier' is an odd and maybe even unique book. That it is a masterpiece, almost a perfect novel, comes as… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
I had written a book that dealt with really serious issues. Was anybody going to want to read a Christmas love story… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
“I have come to judge a good story as one that makes me feel as if I'm losing a friend when I… — Tom Ryan Copy Share Image
“Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit,… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books… — Nancy Bird Walton Copy Share Image
Gary Burnetts office is shelved with theological books, guitars fill the floor, and the drawers are crammed with CDs. In The Gospel… — Steve Stockman Copy Share Image
A library is many things, but particularly it is a place where books live, and where you can get in touch with… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' is my first book, and it's the fulfillment of a life-long dream. I had always wanted to… — Jeff Kinney Copy Share Image
At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my… — Dave Grohl Copy Share Image
It is remarkable that, notwithstanding the universal favor with which the New Testament is outwardly received, and even the bigotry with which… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The implications are clear: Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and even browsing is… — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“This book, I believe, has turned out to be not quite fact and not quite fiction, but something in between. I wonder… — Kyung-Sook Shin Copy Share Image
There's a moment of recognition. It's that white-light kind of stuff that just 'works.' I love that. And you know it when… — Barbara Kruger Copy Share Image
There's a lot of sub-conscious stuff you may write but you don't then suddenly sit down and take out your analytical books… — Van Morrison Copy Share Image
I love teaching online at my website and soon I'll be writing a math book. I love to teach math. I just… — Danica McKellar Copy Share Image
It must be some book," she said as she knelt down next to the bed..."Did that boy give it to you?" She… — John Green Copy Share Image
Wherever you look there are inspirations, books, literature, paintings, landscapes, everything. Just living is an inspiration. — Gavin Rossdale Copy Share Image
“Books go out into the world, travel mysteriously from hand to hand, and somehow find their way to the people who need… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
I don't think I'm essentially interested in children's books. I'm interested in writing, and in pictures. I'm interested in people and in… — Margaret Wise Brown Copy Share Image
Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
Angela Carter's fiction blew me away and really instilled a passion for writing, bolstered by Vladimir Nabokov. But in general, I can't… — Jeff VanderMeer Copy Share Image
Don't know much about history, don't know much biology, don't know much about a science book, don't know much about the French… — Sam Cooke Copy Share Image
Great collections of books are subject to certain accidents besides the damp, the worms, and the rats; one not less common is… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
Seek ye diligently and teach one another words of wisdom; yea, seek ye out of the best books words of wisdom; seek… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
One can never have enough socks," said Dumbledore. "Another Christmas has come and gone and I didn't get a single pair. People… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So you need hardly spell me how every word will be bound over to carry three score and ten toptypsical readings throughout… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“Your decision not to join the crowd may be what God is waiting for to grant you revelation on how to deliver… — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
There's only one set of books I've written that I knew was going to be more than one book at the beginning,… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
When it's in a book I don't think it'll hurt any more ...exist any more. One of the things writing does is… — Marguerite Duras Copy Share Image
I never can understand how two men can write a book together; to me that's like three people getting together to have… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
He started to look at me in a manner I recognized: it was the way I looked at a new book, one… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The class went all right, and the ones after became easier. I was enthusiastic, naive and idealistic, and I was in love… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
...with each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
