Jews, Germans, and Allies is an important historical document, especially in light of those revisionists who would impose a universal amnesia about… — Hilma Wolitzer Copy Share Image
I remember 'Roots' growing up and the cultural impact it had on the country. Watching 'Roots' was not the cool remove of… — John Ridley Copy Share Image
Some readers read a book as if it were an instruction manual, expecting to understand everything first time, but of course when… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
When I first moved up to San Francisco to write Where The Wild Things Are, I had a couple moments where I… — Spike Jonze Copy Share Image
There's a popular concept of 'intelligence' as book smarts, like calculus or chess, as opposed to, say, social skills. So people say… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is no more necessary that a man should remember the different dinners and suppers which have made him healthy, than the… — Sydney Smith Copy Share Image
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The Charge will change your life. Our brains are hard wired to meet specific human drives, and learning to harness and activate… — Daniel Amen Copy Share Image
With the enormous and steady increase in the volume of our literature, we must rely more and more upon sympathetic selection, judicious… — Rossiter Johnson Copy Share Image
People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
“She liked getting hold of some book... and keeping it to herself, and gnawing its contents in privacy, and pondering the meaning… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I missed the sound of her shuffling her homework while I listened to music on her bed. I missed the cold of… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
What are you reading?" Owen asks. "Charlotte's Web," Liz says. "It's really sad. One of the main characters just died." "You ought… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
There can be no real conflict between the two Books of the Great Author. Both are revelations made by Him to man,-the… — James Dwight Dana Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have any comic books, at all. But my friend had a trunk full of them, so comic books… — James Spader Copy Share Image
I learned to build bookshelves and brought books to my room, gathering them around me thickly. I read by day and into… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
We got quiet. The garden was combing her hair and putting on earrings. The house was full of dancing creatures, not male… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“What we all share in common - the real reason for this book - is a desire to love better. To love… — Megan Devine Copy Share Image
The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then… — Polly Berrien Berends Copy Share Image
The finest music in the room is that which streams out to the ear of the spirit in many an exquisite strain… — James Lane Allen Copy Share Image
I thought it might be fun to set my books in Nevada, which is in the West and still pretty Wild. You… — Caroline Lawrence Copy Share Image
When a reader falls in love with a book, it leaves its essence inside him, like radioactive fallout in an arable field,… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“I go downstairs and the books blink at me from the shelves. Or stare. In a trick of the light, a row… — Susan Hill Copy Share Image
The fact remains that books that really put gay people in the center, and especially books that do so in a way… — Garth Greenwell Copy Share Image
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
There were thousands of brown books in leather bindings, some chained to the book-shelves and others propped against each other as if… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The role you've been ascribed in childhood can twist or break apart or seem outgrown, especially when you have your own family… — Maggie O'Farrell Copy Share Image
I've spent my life living in rural America, some of it in blue state Vermont, some of it in red state upstate… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“I can’t pick a favorite book, explaining that it’s not about what or who is the best, but rather the story itself.… — Amanda Maxlyn Copy Share Image
I want to know one thing, the way to heaven; how to land safe on that happy shore. God Himself has condescended… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
There was an author who titled his books by days of the weeks and another one that used colors. Then there was… — Sue Grafton Copy Share Image
The whole history of these books (i.e. the Gospels) is so defective and doubtful that it seems vain to attempt minute enquiry… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I always said that I want to write a book about success and my story and my brand and everything that goes… — Reem Acra Copy Share Image
Writer's block is real. It happens. Some days you sit down at the old typewriter, put your fingers on the keys, and… — James N. Frey Copy Share Image
They didn’t have novels back then. (Tory) History says they didn’t have books, yet what’s this thing in my hand? It’s square,… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
So the difference between most books about love and Love For No Reason is that traditional love books focus on love as… — Marci Shimoff Copy Share Image
Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wonder, what's in a book while it's closed. Oh, I know it's full of letters printed on paper, but all the… — Michael Ende Copy Share Image
