The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out. — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
“If writing a book were easy everyone would be doing it. Oh, wait, everyone is.” — Simone Pond Copy Share Image
I know the Bible is inspired because it finds me at greater depths of my being than any other book. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Motherhood is like Albania- you can't trust the descriptions in the books, you have to go there. — Marni Jackson Copy Share Image
“This book will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book.” — William D. Hendricks Copy Share Image
I have a sort of Christmas-morning sense of the library as a big box full of beautiful books. — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
The most revealing books are the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible. The Bhagavad Gita is a great book as well, and… — RZA Copy Share Image
Books of apostates, heretics, schismatics, and all other writers defending heresy or schism or in any attacking the foundations of religion, are… — Pope Leo XIII Copy Share Image
I really love middle-grade. Middle-grade books have a little more of a magical, light-hearted feel. You can be a little bit more… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
A writer is a man like any other: he dreams. And my dream was to be able to say of this book,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has to the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
An unread book does nobody any good. Stories happen in the mind of a reader, not among symbols printed on a page. — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Sometimes you read a book so special that you want to carry it around with you for months after you've finished just… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“In our lives, we don’t always get what we deserve or what we want. But how we deal with those misfortunes mold… — Jeff Wheeler Copy Share Image
I keep a daily journal of whatever weird thought comes into my mind, like when I had a dream I was in… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one...… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
I think you keep two sets of books. In one set, you record the truth -- how well you are really doing.… — Helen Gurley Brown Copy Share Image
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The year before was my first collection for Emilio Pucci, and I was just starting the job and working in his Renaissance… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
The book was in her lap; she had read no further. The power to change one’s life comes from a paragraph, a… — James Salter Copy Share Image
These are the moments. These are the moments where you realize love is everywhere if you look closely. When you realize happiness… — Camila Cabello Copy Share Image
