I do not so much write a book as sit up with it, as a dying friend. I hold its hand and… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Much of our adult morality, in books and out of them, has a stuffiness unworthy of childhood. Our grown-up conclusions often rest… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book. — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls do so boys can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm quite nosy. Somebody will be reading a book on a train, and I'll go: 'How is it? Is it any good?'… — Ophelia Lovibond Copy Share Image
Fifty years from now if an understanding of man's origins, his evolution, his history, his progress is not in the common place… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
I am writing to apply for the position of bookkeeper. Attached, you will find my list of qualifications. I have been keeping… — Joey Comeau Copy Share Image
“If books had not bound together the experiences of former generations, the shackles of later generations in their forgetfulness would not have… — Mahbud Copy Share Image
By the time I got to school, I had already read a couple hundred books. I knew in the first grade that… — Alan Kay Copy Share Image
Several weeks of summer vacation in the Thirties I spent working at $15 a week in the FORBES office… I worked in… — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
Turn off your radio. Put away your daily paper. Read one review of events a week and spend some time reading good… — Dorothy Day Copy Share Image
“Books were seen as a waste of time. What was the point, unless you were reading for information? To lose oneself in… — David Bergen Copy Share Image
Edwidge Danticat's prose has a Chekhovian simplicity--an ability to state the most urgent truths in a measured and patiently plain style that… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
“Bastian looked at the book. 'I wonder,' he said to himself, 'what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English but in an exceedingly difficult secret language… This plan would… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
...Holmes, who loathed every form of society with his whole Bohemian soul, remained in our lodgings in Baker Street, buried among his… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
“To be better equipped for the tests that the year will bring — read a textbook. To prepare for the tests that… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Blockbusting fiction is bought as furniture. Unread, it maintains its value. Read, it looks like money wasted. Cunningly, Americans know that books… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
I believe in any kid's ability to read any book and form their own judgements. It's the job of a parent to… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Making books has always felt very connected to my bookselling experience, that of wanting to draw people's attention to things that I… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
I think books are just a great ticket to get you outside of yourself. You can not be you for a second… — Dan Mangan Copy Share Image
I can’t explain how it is I keep having new ideas. But one book inevitably follows another. It is my way of… — Virginia Hamilton Copy Share Image
I'd like to read a book sometime. I've never read a book before. That'd be an adventure. I understand they have pages… — Frank Oz Copy Share Image
And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost… — Helene Hanff Copy Share Image
I have trouble with some books because I'm so much in agreement with them I'd rather just sit in the grass myself. — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
I never heard of anyone who was really literate or who ever really loved books who wanted to suppress any of them. — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I look at what's going on in our society and what's pissing me off at the moment and I just get my… — Larry Winget Copy Share Image
“Being as Communion is the final book in a trilogy. The two earlier books were The Design Inference and No Free Lunch.” — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Love, I wrote the book on it. Unfortunately, nobody would publish it, so I felt compelled to burn my manuscript.” — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
What on earth have you packed in here? Bricks?" asked Mo as he carried Meggie's book-box out of the house. You're the… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
We cannot give our children what we don't have. Where we are on our journey of living and loving with our whole… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
If I have something I want to say that is too difficult for adults to swallow, then I will write it in… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Stepping into the "shoes" of someone's life other than my own, great movies such as 'Cinema Paradiso,' scenic landscapes, the work of… — Reggie Lee Copy Share Image
You buy any book on color theory today, and it's just complete poppycock. Everybody comes out of school painting pink, purple and… — John Kricfalusi Copy Share Image
I've got lots of books sitting here that have never been published because nobody could make any marketing sense of them. — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
The more I do bookstores, the more people come up to me from church groups. I spoke at Pittsburg State College and… — Anita Diament Copy Share Image
In 2006, I published my first novel, 'In the Country of Men.' The publication of the book gave me a bigger platform… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
“There was a birthday present waiting to be read, a boxed set of the Narnia books, which I took upstairs. I lay… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Books transmit values. They explore our common humanity. What is the message when some children are not represented in those books? — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
