Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet and a… — Mark Rubinstein Copy Share Image
No one would want to read a book in which I explain the science of cloning because it would be very dull… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
I am unpacking my library. Yes I am. The books are not yet on the shelves, not yet touched by the mild… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
I'm a bachelor in the old sense of the word, meaning I flirt, I have very many close relationships, but then I… — William Ivey Long Copy Share Image
This is the best book ever written by any man on the wrong side of a question of which he is profoundly… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
If I had to pick a single word to describe what my pictures are all about, I would say 'secrets.' As a… — Joyce Tenneson Copy Share Image
“I read all of those books I always wanted to read, or reread... And I feel full. Until I finish a book.… — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
Were it not for the amusement of our books, we should be moped to death for want of occupation. It rains incessantly.… — Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sevigne Copy Share Image
Those who have abandoned themselves to God always lead mysterious lives and receive from him exceptional and miraculous gifts by means of… — Jean-Pierre de Caussade Copy Share Image
In the stand-up comedy top, there's room for everyone - if you're good, there's room for everyone. You'll put on your own… — Jim Jefferies Copy Share Image
If you're having trouble finishing a book, it might be that you're trying to fix it as you go. Just finish the… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and… — Molly Ivins Copy Share Image
They will be given as gifts; books that are especially pretty or visual will be bought as hard copies; books that are… — Susan Orlean Copy Share Image
I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Question four: What book would you give to every child? Answer: I wouldn't give them a book. Books are part of the… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
It felt good to be surrounded by books, by all this solid knowledge, by these objects that could be ripped page by… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
“To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Books lined the shelves of bookstores like kids standing in a row to play baseball or soccer, and mine was the gangly,… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
“Addie believes in books. They are more interesting than real life and easier to understand. Sometimes you can guess the ending. Things… — Kim Church Copy Share Image
Every significant book at Marvel had its key antagonist. 'The Fantastic Four' had Doctor Doom; 'Spider-Man' had Doc Ock, among others; Thor… — Chris Claremont Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the Gothic novel because it's very much a woman's form. Why is there such a wide readership for books… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I like to listen to music that fits with what I'm writing. For each book, I've assembled a playlist, so readers can… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“A woman can tolerate delays knowing they are not denials; she is diligent, and composed. She is not easily irritated like love;… — Agu Jaachynma N.E Copy Share Image
Decorators never quite saw the point of massing books. Books brought colour to a room and filled it up, but shelves bearing… — Peter York Copy Share Image
Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
When you have so much history with someone you just can't close the book , you have too rip that page out… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I sometimes wonder what would have happened if the first book had not sold... doesn't bear thinking about, but I suppose we'd… — Bernard Cornwell Copy Share Image
I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing… — Neil Oliver Copy Share Image
Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you… — Tom Clancy Copy Share Image
“Of all those books you've read? There's got to be something, somewhere in them, to help us laugh at a situation like… — Carol Plum-Ucci Copy Share Image
I just increasingly enjoy the quiet moments when I can be on my own with my friends and family, or with a… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
You can read ten books and finally come across one detail, and it's like, "now everything else makes sense. Now I know… — John Guare Copy Share Image
“She quotes Robert Louis Stevenson about how young writers must read like predators. And she says that all of us, not just… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
That earns him a smack with my book bag. "Ow." He clutches his arm. "What do you have in there? Books?" A… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
When a newspaper columnist wants to write about a novel, the rule is that you're supposed to have a 'hook,' an excuse,… — Ross Douthat Copy Share Image
I believe in the absolute and unlimited liberty of reading. I believe in wandering through the stacks and picking out the first… — Rick Moody Copy Share Image
I feel like they are two different things, and when I write books, they're just books. If they can be movies that's… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
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