I'm not a great reader, believe it or not. It's not the vocabulary - my father made me read the dictionary when… — David Robinson Copy Share Image
Seth's quote from his book: "And if I only could I'd make a deal with God and I'd get Him to swap… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
I was never a great reader, but there were two stories I loved best: Kipling's The Elephant's Child and The Jungle Book.… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
“and he glanced at the backs of the books, with an awakened curiosity that went below the binding. No one who can… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I am never indifferent, and never pretend to be, to what people say or think of my books. They are my children,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The power of the human spirit inspires me. Movies, books, stories, people, anything that reminds us that we are more than just… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
“had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, ‘and what is the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
This one is from the immortals series i cant remember what book. Damen to Ever While we may judge things as good… — Alyson Noel Copy Share Image
Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer's work is only a kind of optical instrument he… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
I believe in the magic of books. I believe that during certain periods in our lives we are drawn to particular books--whether… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
Raven-haired writer Emer Martin is giving a lunchtime reading from her fabulous new novel, Baby Zero. Emer Martin is a brilliant writer,… — Olaf Tyaransen Copy Share Image
History shows us a lot of things. It shows why the Lord's Prayer includes the supplication: "And lead us not into temptation."… — Wolfgang Schauble Copy Share Image
The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or sectarian beliefs. Inferring that biochemical systems were… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“gazing down at the black water remembering all the stories of women who had thrown themselves into it. They'd done it for… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“…one of those long, romantic novels, six hundred and fifty pages of small print, translated from French or German or Hungarian or… — Jean Rhys Copy Share Image
“If I have not read a book before, it is for all intents and purposes new to me whether it was printed… — William Haizlett Copy Share Image
To read a book, to think it over, and to write out notes is a useful exercise; a book which will not… — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
I fell in love with the book [ Brief Interviews with Hideous Men] and always wanted to do something with and fought… — John Krasinski Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You" — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
It's always a challenge to discover the most effective first sentence, and the most effective final sentence, in a chapter for instance,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Books have always a secret influence on the understanding; we cannot at pleasure obliterate ideas; he that reads books of science, thogh… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I was reading 'The Mystic Eye' by Sadhguru of Isha Yoga Centre. I couldn't keep the book down and finished it in… — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
Luckily for you, you can close the book The Postman Always Rings Twice and break out of it, and James M. Cain… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
I don't think any of my books tell the reader anything new. But they do remind, in a time that is strident… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the… — Charlie Rowe Copy Share Image
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back.… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
Prayer is always in danger of degenerating into a glorified gold rush. How to get things from God occupies most [books]. — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
In a world that holds books and babies and canyon trails, why should one condemn oneself to live day-in, day-out with people… — Ruth Benedict Copy Share Image
The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history,… — Tommy Lapid Copy Share Image