Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So here I sit in the early candle-light of old age-I and my book-casting backward glances over out travel'd road. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
During the Depression, or back when we were fighting Hitler, people didn't have time to sue a company if the coffee was… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
When someone thinks, "I liked his last book, I'll hope this new one is good" and shells out their hard-earned, I fervently… — Max Barry Copy Share Image
I feel sometimes like a book tour is a slow series of humiliations and that if you're strong you'll come out of… — Jennifer Gilmore Copy Share Image
I envy the people who say, 'oh, well, I've got my name in the golden book and I'm going to be entered… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Friends, books, a garden, and perhaps his pen, Delightful industry enjoy'd at home, An Nature, in her cultivated trim Dress'ed to his… — William Cowper Copy Share Image
I'm going to name a name: Janet Evanovich. She writes the same book over and over, and I read every single one… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
If I wake up in the morning and I don't want to get you a coffee or if I don't see you… — John Mayer Copy Share Image
I was writing a film criticism book on Sergio Corbucci, the director who did the original Django. So, I was kind of… — Quentin Tarantino Copy Share Image
Historian Larry Hise notes in his book Pro-Slavery that ministers 'wrote almost half of all defenses of slavery published in America.' He… — James A. Haught Copy Share Image
“After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A… — Robin Sloane Copy Share Image
I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
Alexis Coe rescues a buried but extraordinarily telling episode from the 1890s that resonates in all sorts of ways with today. That… — Peter Orner Copy Share Image
White America has seen to it that Black history has been suppressed in schools and in American history books. The bravery of… — Huey Newton Copy Share Image
At difficult times of my life, books have been an incredible comfort. When I was 12, I changed schools and my parents… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
I never write a book unless I can't help it. Something has to bother me, like a mosquito, until I have to… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is, to meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege I think. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we… — E. W. Howe Copy Share Image
Books will soon be obsolete in the schools... Our school system will be completely changed in the next ten years. — Thomas A. Edison Copy Share Image
“Elaine: They're good people. They do good things, they READ. Jerry: I READ. Elaine: Books, Jerry. Jerry: Oh. Big deal.” — Seinfeld Copy Share Image
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
This life is an secret book,which time, what will happen no one knows and no one can predict but only on can… — Dolpalimala Copy Share Image
That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“If you want to treat your book as a child, the finished book should be an adult, capable to stand on its… — Martyn V. Halm Copy Share Image
Between 1961 and 1982, 'The Catcher in the Rye' was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United… — Richard Grenell Copy Share Image
One of the most frequent responses I get from non-Christian readers is: 'I'm not sure I agree with all this, but I… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
What I think happens, and that you have to acknowledge though, is that a director uses a book as a launching pad… — Katherine Dunn Copy Share Image
There was a different ending to 'New Moon' originally. It was a much quieter book. It was very much all in Bella's… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“You never know if a book is going to succeed or fail, so what matters ultimately is how you feel about it… — Kristin Hannah Copy Share Image
I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
My book had a universal theme. It's not a "racial" novel. It portrays an aspect of civilization, not necessarily Southern civilization. — Harper Lee Copy Share Image
“You may receive a pie, eat it and forget. You may receive champagne, drink it and forget. But when you receive a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
It stinks of trains and that chili with the chocolate in it. Ooooh, books!" he exclaimed suddenly, making a beeline for the… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
