Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Speaking of love, one problem that recurs more and more frequently these days, in books and plays and movies, is the inability… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos, And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us.… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
My advice to aspiring writers of fantasy trilogies or series is that each book needs two main plots. There's the 'big story',… — Juliet Marillier Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A lot of readers ask me, "Do you ever get emotional while writing the book?" or "Did you cry when you killed… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
You learn so much with each book, but it's what you teach yourself by writing your own books and by reading good… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
Certain readers will read my book not because they are interested in Iraq, but because they read crime fiction. I did want… — Elliott Colla Copy Share Image
“The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as equality for some. Equality must be for all. That is what freedom is. That is what… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
Death is the gate of life. Ingratitude is the soul's enemy... Ingratitude is a burning wind that dries up the source of… — Bernard of Clairvaux Copy Share Image
Some people are happy when they are at the sea; I'm happy when I'm standing in front of a shelf of books.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Any student of the New Testament eager to understand its Greco-Roman setting will profit greatly from this excellent book. I commend it… — Craig S. Keener Copy Share Image
“«A book can't take the place of a man!» «I disagree. A book can give you most things a relationship can. It… — Sarah Morgan Copy Share Image
Being in front of an audience makes me feel alive. Being with friends makes me feel alive. I’ve done some crazy stuff… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
If you feel . . . that well-read people are less likely to be evil, and a world full of people sitting… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America,… — William Powell Copy Share Image
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The cliché I tried to avoid was I hated "teenage sidekicks." I always figured if I were a superhero, there's no way… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Actually, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
There is a new book out about Hillary Clinton that claims Bill is still having affairs but Hillary continues to look the… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
I testify that one cannot come to full faith in this latter-day work—and thereby find the fullest measure of peace and comfort… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
For a stalk to grow or a flower to open there must be time that cannot be forced; nine months must go… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
... a phallocentric culture is more likely to begin its censorship purges with books on pelvic self-examination for women or bookscontaining lyrical… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
The Hawley Book of the Dead had me completely spellbound from beginning to end. A storytelling virtuosa, Chrysler Szarlan has woven a… — Anne Fortier Copy Share Image
I took six months to rehearse how I'd ask Shah Rukh Khan if he would launch my debut novel. I thought of… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
This book is intended for use in English courses in which the practice of composition is combined with the study of literature.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As it now stands, I Enoch appears to consist of the following five major divisions: (1) The Book of the Watchers (chaps.… — Craig A. Evans Copy Share Image
He wanted nothing, for the time being, except to understand … Without advice, assistance or plan, he began reading an incongruous assortment… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I opposed the Fatwa against Salman Rushdie. I read the book and took a critical distance. I did not think The Satanic… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
For a long time, I thought you could remain isolated and survive, and I didn't want to change that. But over the… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
She never managed to find herself in these books no matter how hard she tried, exhuming traits from between the pages and… — Eleanor Brown Copy Share Image
Reasons are the spoils of victory. When you've destroyed the enemy, then your leaders write down the reasons in books, and give… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
