The first book I fell in love with was 'Little Toot,' the story of an adorable tugboat operating out of New York… — Edward St Aubyn Copy Share Image
Writing a book is the most terrifying thing that I've ever done. It's so much harder than writing for television because it… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
He who loveth a book will never want a faithful friend, a wholesome counsellor, a cheerful companion, or an effectual comforter. — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
If you are anything like me --- Clever, fond of goat cheese, and devilishly handsome --- then you have undoubtedly read many… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
“(in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We will put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough… — Charles Guggenheim Copy Share Image
It's much more difficult to make an unbound book than a bound book, because the factories aren't set up to make an… — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of… — Lydia Millet Copy Share Image
Today we hear a great deal about Organizational Men, Mass Culture, Conformity, the Lonely Crowd, the Power Elite and its Conspiracy of… — Kenneth Rexroth Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
“There is nothing more wonderful than a book. It may be a message to us from the dead, from human souls we… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Books, gentlemen, are a species of men, and introduced to them you circulate in the "very best society" that this world can… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
My fear is you have to be careful as a writer to not get caught up in social media and blogging, because… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord, That would reduce these bloody days again And make poor England weep in streams of… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
That world beyond is a world of sanctity and radiance; therefore, it is necessary that in this world he should acquire these… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“You can tell I don't like this book, because I drew in it. And that's better than anything else that's in this… — Dan Bergstein Copy Share Image
I wasn't really a big comic book guy, growing up. I watched cartoons, but the choices were a whole heck of a… — Adrian Pasdar Copy Share Image
God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Sport...teaches life's lessons. But there's no substitute, in my book, for education, because that gives you choice. — Fiona Wood Copy Share Image
Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that… — Leonora Carrington Copy Share Image
In the swirling rain that came at dusk the broad avenue glistened with that deep bluish tint which is so widely condemned… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
“This is where it starts. When they write the legend, this will be the first page. Some old monk will go blind… — Mark Lawrence Copy Share Image
I started re-reading 'Harry Potter' just to throw myself back into my childhood. I forgot how awesome the books are. — Sam Mikulak Copy Share Image
It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
I wrote my book 'The Amorous Busboy Of Decatur Avenue' completely like a writer does, writing it down, re-writing everything. But in… — Robert Klein Copy Share Image
The gaslight of the film [The Girl On The Train] became something that really needed to be dramatized more than the book… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book which will break your heart." [on… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She read books quickly and compulsively, paperback after paperback, as if she might drift away without the anchor of the printed page. — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that… — Mark Mothersbaugh Copy Share Image
Most of us... are simply just trying to get through the day. And wait for those times in their life that are… — Campbell Scott Copy Share Image
Games are not about being told things. If you want to tell people things, write a book or make a movie. Games… — Warren Spector Copy Share Image
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull. — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
Don't write the book you think publishers want to commission. Plenty of other writers will be doing the same thing. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
For a dyed-in-the-wool author, nothing is as dead as a book once it is written. She is rather like a cat whose… — Rumer Godden Copy Share Image
Writing: I certainly do rewrite my central myth in every book, and would never read or trust any writer who did not… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
I'm very comfortable with myself and my sexuality, but it doesn't define me. I also read books believe it or not. — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined… — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
The premise of my book is that everyone is a bit ideological to some extent. Everyone comes from a ideological perspective. — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
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