The advice of a scholar, whose piles of learning were set on fire by imagination, is never to be forgotten. Proportion an… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I found Uriah reading a great fat book, with such demonstrative attention, that his lank forefinger followed up every line as he… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever. — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
“In every book she’d ever read, the heroine was subject to self-doubt and unjust criticism. And in every case, it only served… — Kathleen Tessaro Copy Share Image
Doctor Who: You want weapons? We're in a library. Books are the best weapon in the world. This room's the greatest arsenal… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
When I wrote my book I wanted to love someone. I wanted to be in love. Now I know that I shall… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
The mind reels at the multiplication of books intended to justify the author's promotion from assistant to associate professor. — C. Northcote Parkinson Copy Share Image
“Her book has perhaps been a good one; it has refreshed, refilled, rewarmed her heart; it has set her brain astir, furnished… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
I feel better in my mind because I'm doing what God made me to do. He said, 'Go write books, Steve, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Just like heaven. Ever’body wants a little piece of lan’. I read plenty of books out here. Nobody never gets to heaven,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
Very often, or perhaps more often, and even in very good collections - even in some of the best collections ever written,… — Roy Kesey Copy Share Image
For the surf idol Duke Kahanamoku portrait, which I created for the Surfrider Foundation, I took a photo from a book cover… — John Van Hamersveld Copy Share Image
The issue of the American justice system is so much broader than any one party, or any area of the country, or… — Chris Hayes Copy Share Image
What do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
When I was writing 'The White Tiger' I lived in a building pretty much exactly like the one I described in this… — Aravind Adiga Copy Share Image
The cure for false theology is motherwit. Forget your books and traditions, and obey your moral perceptions at this hour. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only the ship is made of books, its sails thousands of overlapping pages, and the sea it floats upon is dark black… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
You know, this technology that we have, and the Internet and Twitter and Facebook - I get so many of those emails… — Lauren Myracle Copy Share Image
The books, the authors who matter the most are those who speak to me and speak for me all those things about… — Aidan Chambers Copy Share Image
Writing is alone, but I don't think it's lonely. Ask any writer if they feel lonely when they're writing their book, and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
It's definitely scary to follow a book that's been turned into a Netflix series and found as much success as Girlboss did. — Sophia Amoruso Copy Share Image
At first, I spend about four hours a day writing. Toward the end of a book, I spend up to 16 hours… — Tracy Kidder Copy Share Image
I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often… — Bonnie Jo Campbell Copy Share Image
... the desert, where there is the communal book of moonlight. We were among the rumour of wells. In the palace of winds. — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
I am an author of Christian Fantasy. My first 7 books were Christian Romance, but I came over to the Dark Side… — Donita K. Paul Copy Share Image
When I'm sniffing around new territory, I often choose, rather randomly, one general book and then follow its bibliography and notes to… — Andrea Barrett Copy Share Image
There are many books in the library. Each book has a wonderful story that will never happen in reality. But as you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It took me 40 years to write my first book. When I was a child, I was encouraged to go to school.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Writing a book is like an unknown abyss, every time. Every book is different. Contrary to what unpublished writers think, it's horrible… — Ethan Canin Copy Share Image
That is why the center of our faith isn't just a book, but a history of Salvation, and above all, it's about… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
When I'm working on a book, I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
I did a book in 1996, an overview of black history. In that process I became more aware of a lot of… — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Copy Share Image
The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have… — Chris Evert Copy Share Image
Adapting a Judy Blume book is something I really wanted to do, and you couldn't grow up in the '90s without knowing… — Willa Holland Copy Share Image
If you think about writing a book, or when I did, it seems daunting, but when I began writing, it just started… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
That to me was one of the most exciting, and weird puzzles of this book: how are the most religious people and… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco's book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, where they visit what they… — Alexander Weinstein Copy Share Image
Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
