So then the year is repeating its old story again. We are come once more, thank God! to its most charming chapter.… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I do not know if Alice in Wonderland was an original story-I was, at least, no conscious imitator in writing it-but I… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Cacus.” I’d had years of practice looking dumb when people threw out Greek names I didn’t know. It’s a skill of mine.… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“The precise metaphysical procedures by which a book goes about writing another book need not concern us here. Suffice to say that… — James K. Morrow Copy Share Image
I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I… — Jackson Browne Copy Share Image
Usually I am not a conspiracy theorist. I don't believe in the Bilderbergers as a conspiracy or the Trilateralists. But I am… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
It's a weak faith that only serves God in times of blessing. The book of Job teaches us that true faith, genuine… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Of all the weapons discussed in this book, nothing is more important than your primary firearm. Keep it cleaned, keep it oiled,… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
The appeal of reading, she thought, lay in its indifference: there was something undeferring about literature. Books did not care who was… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Only think about the people you enjoy. Only read the books you enjoy, that make you happy to be human. Only go… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
I cannot sufficiently celebrate the glorious liberty that reigns in the public libraries of the twentieth century as compared with the intolerable… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
Buy ammunition! Remember that a man cannot have too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition. Our adversaries on the… — Jeff Cooper Copy Share Image
I am opposed to textbooks... I find it hateful to give a course where I have to plough my way through chapter… — Emil Artin Copy Share Image
People in show business who are interested in politics, like Ronald Reagan, fare so well because they do know the magic of… — Liberace Copy Share Image
One of the reasons that DC, Marvel, and other comic book companies have always asked me to do covers and variant covers… — Neal Adams Copy Share Image
The Amazons is a stupendous achievement--a long-anticipated centerpiece in the great puzzle of humankind. The story of these forbidden women, silenced for… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
The royalty any author gets is dependent on his track record and marketability and often on the price of his book, too.… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“See what happens to the souls and outcome of a molesting priest, suicide bomber, deadly gang leader, rapist serial killer in the… — William Depaol Copy Share Image
If I'm not writing a book, I'm doing promotion for a book. One thing I love to do is go off with… — Ruth Glick Copy Share Image
I knew what I wanted to do when I set out. I knew that I wanted to write a book that told… — Moshe Kasher Copy Share Image
A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants: demagogues… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I read the 'Twilight' books before the movie and the whole craze happened. And then I loved it. I was in love… — Nina Dobrev Copy Share Image
Every age requires a new approach to the Qur’an for the simple reason that the Quran is made for all ages. It… — Muhammad Asad Copy Share Image
There was romance in the unknown, but once a place had been discovered and cataloged and mapped, it was diminished, just another… — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
There really is no difference in the actual writing or plotting. I choose to tell different stories for the younger reader and,… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
When I was twenty-five, I went on exactly four dates with a much older guy whom I'll call Peter Parker. I'm calling… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
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Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the… — Sena Jeter Naslund Copy Share Image
I feel like what's most important for painting - which has been hierarchically on the top for a really long time in… — Laura Owens Copy Share Image
“Buying books in that 20 year period of my life in which the internet pervaded much of what I did, was quick… — Mark Boyle Copy Share Image
There's this quote by a writer, Emil Cioran, he's a Romanian writer. He says that you should only put things in books… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
Ruth Montgomery had a book I was reading called Aliens Among Us. She was an automatic writer. She used to go into… — Sammy Hagar Copy Share Image
If you want to pontificate, I'm certainly willing to pontificate. That's why Joely was laughing because you don't know what you asked… — Bruce Greenwood Copy Share Image
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Writing long books is a laborious and impoverishing act of foolishness: expanding in five hundred pages an idea that could be perfectly… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
Security can be found in renunciation of ownership over people, money, and real assets; to gain, keep or protect that which others… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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