One book that has influenced the writer very strongly is Winwood Reade's Martyrdom of Man...It is still an extraordinarily inspiring presentation of… — William Winwood Reade Copy Share Image
On the whole, and this comment can get me in a lot of trouble, I find that retailers in the comic book… — Rob Walton Copy Share Image
I spent many hours ensconced in the local library, reading - nay, devouring - book after book after book. Books were my… — Nikki Grimes Copy Share Image
“To read books seriously is to be staggered by the knowledge of how many more books will remain beyond your ken. It’s… — James Falllows Copy Share Image
God bless Interlibrary Loan. I pay a lot of library fines. In the case of 'A Single Shard,' I was using books… — Linda Sue Park Copy Share Image
You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
She closed the book and put her cheek against it. There was still an odor of a library on it, of dust,… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
Everybody in Washington wants one of these jobs studies this book. It's called the Plum Book because the people in Washington turn… — Lawrence O'Donnell Copy Share Image
You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“In times of struggle, there are as many reasons not to read as there are to breathe. Don’t you have bigger things… — Erin Blakemore Copy Share Image
"Ageism" or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other… — Paul Weller Copy Share Image
There are some people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The books I love most are the ones that combine some sort of gripping story with really beautiful or stylish writing. Some… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I am a reader. I am a writer. People assume I do these things to escape. You couldn't be more right. I'm… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
He held the book up to his nose. It smelled like Old Spice talcum powder. Books that smelled that way were usually… — John Bellairs Copy Share Image
Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
My father brought me a box of books once when I was about three and a half or four. I remember the… — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
Derek Bok's most recent book, Our Underachieving Colleges, is worth scrutinizing. . . . Bok is . . . on solid ground… — George Leef Copy Share Image
When all your favorite preachers are gone, and all their books forgotten, you will have your Bible. Master it. MASTER IT! — John Piper Copy Share Image
About 75 percent of the crude oil marketed here is sold off the books, and they are doing trades that would be… — Peter DeFazio Copy Share Image
Write comic books if you love comic books so much that you want to write them. Don't write them like movies. Comics… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
I said once that if they gave me enough money to read the phone book, I'd do it. I live in a… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
“There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, becasuse you realize there is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius. Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.” — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
You know, a vampire book is not a book to be the vehicle for big themes and stuff, where sometimes when you're… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
A thriller needs to hold the interest of the reader from the very beginning. It needs to engage with them, hold them… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the… — Piers Anthony Copy Share Image
The first author I remember being obsessed by, actually realizing 'I like the way he writes and I like the way he… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
And every book, you find, has its own social group--friends of its own it wants to introduce you to, like a party… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
“Do not get glum when you are no longer understood, little book. Do not curse your fate. Do not reach up from… — Joanna Russ Copy Share Image
I'd love to have a 19th Century Russian book club where all the members had to act like the pretentious minor noblemen… — Gary Shteyngart Copy Share Image
Every TV show I've ever made, every game I've ever built, and every book I've ever published has had the common thread… — Elan Lee Copy Share Image
Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a… — Dylan Moran Copy Share Image
Take a newspaper account of Waterloo or Trafalgar, with all the small advertisements: it seems much more real than reading about it… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
I wish in my own mind I were more definite - that I was absolutely convinced I'd never direct someone else's script,… — Paul Mazursky Copy Share Image
“When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and,… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
