Rule books are paper - they will not cushion a sudden meeting of stone and metal. — Ernest K. Gann Copy Share Image
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I'm inspired by nonmusical things a lot, whether it's a film or a book or whatever. — Julia Holter Copy Share Image
Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear. — Eric Burns Copy Share Image
“i'd hate to read all these books...that much reading could put your eyes out.” — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
'The Hobbit' by J. R. R. Tolkien was the first book I enjoyed. I was 14 and when I finished I started… — Nigel Lythgoe Copy Share Image
What makes a book unique isn't always about having one big grand new idea. It's about combining many different ideas in new… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
At age 19, I read a book [The Intelligent Investor] and what I'm doing today, at age 76, is running things through… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Replies began arriving seconds after he pressed send, and soon every single one of the warriors (besides William) had agreed to come… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
If you're, like, a PhD student in English, and you look at each instance that Richard Yates is mentioned in the book...it… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
“External motivation is usually the most important to establish early in the book. Internal motivation can take a bit longer to develop… — Debra Dixon Copy Share Image
We have never been so rich in books. But there has never been a generation when there is so much twaddle in… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
When I got the audition I looked up the Wheel of Time book series on Google and I saw that it has… — Madeleine Madden Copy Share Image
“The acquisition of a book signalled not just the potential acquisition of knowledge but also something like the property rights to a… — James Wood Copy Share Image
Often in the past, there have been authors that were deeply disappointed in their adaptation, but that's because they haven't accepted the… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
I follow my own nose. So I read things that are different. People will always say to me, "Have you read Robert… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
There is a great book out called 'Everything I Needed to Learn I Learned in Kindergarten,' and I believe that everything I… — Randy Bachman Copy Share Image
I suppose what's happened recently has confirmed suspicions I voiced in the book, and I think made clearer some of those things… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
I have written 5 books that address major figures in our culture: books on Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., Tupac Shakur,… — Michael Eric Dyson Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a girl named Grace Brisbane. There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I started by just sitting by the chessboard exploring things. I didn't even have books at first, and I just played by… — Magnus Carlsen Copy Share Image
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