“A book of verses underneath the bough A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou Beside me singing in the… — Omar Khayyám Copy Share Image
We worked with David Thibodeau, who wrote a book about Waco, on which the series is based. He's one of the nine… — Andrea Riseborough Copy Share Image
“You are not permitted to live and die as a non-entity because you have encountered the greatness that is associated with Christ.” — Jaachynma N.E. Agu Copy Share Image
Success is deeply rooted in time and place. You may have the drive to read tons of books on biology. But if… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
One rainy Sunday when I was in the third grade, I picked up a book to look at the pictures and discovered… — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
Do you know a book that you are willing to put under your head for a pillow when you lie dying? Very… — Joseph Cook Copy Share Image
Yeah, when you're making a film, the book is a good tool, but once you have the script and you're making a… — Jennifer Lawrence Copy Share Image
A lot of guys in the prison think they're bad. Some of them are, but when it comes to being bad in… — Tex Watson Copy Share Image
Personally, I never understood the power of having books written about your experience - whatever that experience may be - until I… — Jay Asher Copy Share Image
That afternoon he told me that the difference between human beings and animals was that human beings were able to dream while… — Steven Millhauser Copy Share Image
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons.… — Charles Frazier Copy Share Image
Conversationis like the table of contents of a dull book… All the greatest subjects of human thought are proudly displayedin it. Listen… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
Oddly enough, my favorite genre is not fiction. I'm attracted by primary sources that are relevant to historical questions of interest to… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Whenever I start a new book, I think, 'This is the most interesting subject of all time. It's sad, I'll never enjoy… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
A fantastic, gleeful, chrome-plated-slick debut of a novel. In Jonathan Chase, Markham has created the perfect cliche-shattering super spy while honoring the… — Greg Rucka Copy Share Image
How a big majority of book critics and authors have come to believe and to teach that no book is true to… — Gene Stratton-Porter Copy Share Image
“To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be… — Claude Adrien Helvetius Copy Share Image
“I think my mother's and Granny's storytelling had had the same effect upon me when a child, as the reading of books:… — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
I always dread the process of writing because I'm not a writer. I'm an audible guy, I'm a verbal guy. I love… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Read an hour every day in your chosen field. This works out to about one book per week, fifty books per year,… — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
Five minutes in an old book quickly reveals that most of what is being sold today as new insights into human behavior… — Roy H. Williams Copy Share Image
The Chicago Way is a wonderful first novel. Michael Harvey has studied the masters and put his own unique touch on the… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
It is better to study the books of world instead of dealing with the books of your own mind as it is… — Fadi Copy Share Image
I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
A journalist also needs to be disciplined, and so do I. I am, essentially, lazy. Without discipline I'd be just a mass… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
I have spent 20 years writing these books. Had I wanted to say men are beasts and scream, that takes 30 seconds. — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
A good book is the precious life-blood of a master-spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life, and… — Penelope Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“The cover or jacket protects the book, identifies the author and title, and carries the blurb. The ISBN and bar code enable… — Giles Clark Copy Share Image
I don't get into the book-telling business of conversations I have with the president. That's not my style, and I don't think… — Chuck Hagel Copy Share Image
It reminds me how funny living in LA can be; You go to a friend's barbecue and you leave the face of… — Alice Greczyn Copy Share Image
It has always been a happy thought to me that the creek runs on all night, new every minute, whether I wish… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I would have liked to see where we would have the authority to arrest illegal aliens just by being here illegally and… — Joe Arpaio Copy Share Image
I don't even care what Bill Bryson writes about because he will make it interesting. I love "A Walk in the Woods,"… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
The first person you should think of pleasing, in writing a book, is yourself. If you can amuse yourself for the length… — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Life is like a book. Some chapters are sad, some are happy, and some are exciting, but if you never turn the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The man who reads everything is like the man who eats everything: he can digest nothing, and the penalty of crowding one's… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
I want a book to contain a world - indeed the world. Writing is my main means of engagement with the world… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image