“Burn the book. It serves you once. Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime. Lend the book. It serves for generations… — Kowtham Kumar K Copy Share Image
I don't plan ahead; each book finds me. History itself, the resonance of the past with the present, is the common denominator… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
Obscenity is not a quality inherent in a book or picture, but is solely and exclusively a contribution of the reading mind,… — Theodore Schroeder Copy Share Image
Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from, and how they're made, they never seem quite… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
I'm usually working either on a picture book and a young adult book, or a middle grade book and a young adult… — Jacqueline Woodson Copy Share Image
When I do research, I cast my net very widely and then snatch what feels right out of that. Occasionally I'll read… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
All morning I struggled with the sensation of stray wisps of one world seeping through the cracks of another. Do you know… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Through reading, I escaped the bad parts of my life in the South Bronx. And, through books, I got to travel the… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The Bible is and should be an appropriate course of study in our public schools. Because it is the most widely read,… — Mike Johnson Copy Share Image
For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I became a writer through drawing first and then a comic book obsession - Marvel Comics, in particular. I invented a world… — Adam Ross Copy Share Image
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
One book at a time... though I'm usually doing the research for others while I'm writing, but that sort of research is… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Dolly Parton and I were the first female headliners, where we would book our own opening acts. Before… — Barbara Mandrell Copy Share Image
At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I’m a huge fan of the books myself, so to know that I got to play Clary – who’s a literary heroine… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“No serious book lover will ever die having read every book he has managed to collect. This is not a sign of… — James V. Schall Copy Share Image
'Faith and Will' is aimed at the same readership as 'The Artist's Way.' The book is for spiritual seekers in all walks… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
People are not in good shape to where they have to question their own belief system because of a book or a… — Tom Araya Copy Share Image
I love it when I start a book that is so good that all I want to do is get back to… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
I remain a fan of my friend Bret Easton Ellis's 'American Psycho.' I think as a book about New York in the… — Jay McInerney Copy Share Image
These weren't cheap modern books; these were books bound in leather, and not just leather, but leather from clever cows who had… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I'm not funny. People assume that because my books are funny, I'll be funny in real life. It's the inevitable disappointment of… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about the real world, not… — Joe Rohde Copy Share Image
I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“I don't have a ready-made formula to apply when I embark on a new book, but my guiding principles are discipline, compassion… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I want to write such things as compel the admiring acclamation of the world at large, such things as are written but… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
Geek and Sundry has an eclectic line-up of shows all targeted around things I love: Comics, Tabletop Games, Books and more. — Felicia Day Copy Share Image
Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Writing for children is bloody difficult; books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts, and they should therefore be accorded… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“don't start talkin about books or quotin poems at them. these is good folks but they ain't real crazy about readin books.… — William Gay Copy Share Image
I’ve always found that the better the book I’m reading, the smarter I feel, or, at least, the more able I am… — Francine Prose Copy Share Image
“Literature suffers because writers give their books to colleagues who will then write glowing reviews or saccharine introductions.” — F. Sionil José Copy Share Image
I've never really thought in terms of taboos. I think that books can really help parents and kids talk together about difficult… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
I love to read. I remember hearing that the average author takes two years to write a book. So when I read… — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
The camera is an eye that sees and records the lives of filthy people. Its pictures are hung in museums and published… — David Shrigley Copy Share Image
I told the brethren that the Book of Mormon was the most correct of any book on earth, and the keystone of… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
