I am impressed when I go on the internet and see a lot of young people who've been influenced by the books,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
I think James Bond is a spy. He's not superhuman. Calling him a superhero is like calling James Bond movies "comic-book movies." — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
Writing books is fun because after I do a show for a couple hours, I'm in a bus for 22 hours. It's… — Willie Nelson Copy Share Image
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In every age in which books have been produced, the governing class, the respectable, have been opposed to the works of real… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I grew up a fan of comics and hanging out in local comic book stores, talking to the store manager and seeing… — Aidan Gallagher Copy Share Image
I leaned right over to kiss your stoney book A little jealous of the ships with whom you flirt A billion lovers… — Andy Partridge Copy Share Image
I have Black guys who tell me they put my books on their bed stands to read at night like something for… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
O my darling books! A day will come when you will be laid out on the salesroom table, and others will buy… — Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy Copy Share Image
Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we… — Maureen Howard Copy Share Image
I went off and read the books after the audition and I read all four books in one sitting - you know… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
If you agree with me that a poem can be as bountiful as a rich Victorian narrative, and as wise... then you'll… — Albert Goldbarth Copy Share Image
“Children need to see themselves in books. They need to see their gender. They need to see their color, hair texture, their… — Christian Robinson Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
But it's never just been the journals that have made the difference, I don't think. It's also the way the students are… — Meg Wolitzer Copy Share Image
There are two angels that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. He… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I am proud, and more than a little excited, to be asked to work with Faber in an editorial capacity. It is… — Jarvis Cocker Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Some people say, ‘Do not judge the book by its cover!’ Well, I say not to judge at all. People can say… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. — Thomas Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll get a premise, you know, for a book. In fact, I get those quite often. And I don't commit to… — Kimberly Willis Holt Copy Share Image
A lot of the time with jobs that I've booked, immediately I'll read the breakdown, or I'll read the script, and I'm… — India Eisley Copy Share Image
“Starting the day - Another chance to be new again. How many of us still wish for that? To be your own… — Carew Papritz Copy Share Image
The most important question for me when I begin working on a film is where to start. For a book, what makes… — Wim Wenders Copy Share Image
Probably every book I read influenced me in some small way. Authors like Jan Westcott, Kathleen Winsor, Catherine Cookson, Georgette Heyer, and… — Virginia Henley Copy Share Image
I know I never work in whatever gets called an office, e.g., a school office I use only for meeting students and… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“Stories are not chapters of novels. They should not be read one after another, as if they were meant to follow along.… — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
I think each book has its own way of accommodating my concerns, whether it's about race, America, technology, the city. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
I have been illustrating Tolkien's books ever since I first read them, long before illustration became my profession. — John Howe Copy Share Image
My lack of access to the real world has been replaced completely by books, and it can’t be healthy to live in… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
You can't have a favourite meal, like you can't have a favourite movie or a favourite book or a favourite child. — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
I take my books everywhere. Plane journeys are a good opportunity to study, or also when I'm having my hair done. — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
