“A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The difference between the world of pictures and the world of printed matter is extraordinary and hard to define. A picture is… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
It's in the history books, the Holocaust. It's just a phrase. And the truth is it happened yesterday. It happened to my… — Gene Simmons Copy Share Image
I've been surprised by how little criticism I've got. Harry Potter's been taking all the flak. I'm a great fan of J.K.… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
There are some books and characters so pleasant, or rather which contain so much that is pleasant, that criticism is perplexed or… — John Frederick Boyes Copy Share Image
I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
One of the books that has guided me in the last ten years of my life to help me to be that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
It's actually as simple as this. New authors, building their customer base, need physical bookshops. Physical bookshops are lovely tactile, friendly, expert,… — Tim Waterstone Copy Share Image
The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of “eternity”;… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When you make a book or you make a movie, it is almost like hitting on somebody. It's not because you want… — Marjane Satrapi Copy Share Image
We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
How well I know what I mean to do When the long dark Autumn evenings come, And where, my soul, is thy… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters, are gonna… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
No matter how much people want to pretend that they're embarrassed by it, that they don't watch it, everybody knows about it.… — CM Punk Copy Share Image
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Theodore Dalrymple is a brilliant observer of both medicine and society, and his book wittily engages with two versions of the current… — Kenneth Minogue Copy Share Image
Since a calorie is a measure of food energy, you may understandably assume that the more calories you consume, the more energy… — Brendan Brazier Copy Share Image
“I didn’t have anyone, but every time I walked through those doors I felt like each of those authors was my family… — J.L. Mac Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it is only in childhood that books have any deep influence on our lives. In later life we admire, we are… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“I suppose it was the worst book any man has ever written. It was a colossal tome and faulty from start to… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The process of reading a book takes a while to get used to (in this future society). It's so slow and laborious.… — Mike A. Lancaster Copy Share Image
When my father passed, I was still an unsuccessful cook with a drug problem. I was in my mid-thirties, standing behind an… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Every concerned citizen and policy maker should read this book. The environmentalists will hate it. The world's destitute masses will love it.… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
Who cares what the color means? How do you know what he meant to say? I mean, did he leave another book… — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“But suddenly, Pentunia spied the Book. The firecrackers had blown it open so that the pages showed. She had never seen them… — Roger Duvoisin Copy Share Image
I was big into mythology when I was a kid - Arthurian legends and Greek mythology, that was kind of my passion.… — Steve Valentine Copy Share Image
The Spirit of Cities presents a new approach to the study of cities in which the focus is placed on a city's… — Nathan Glazer Copy Share Image
That was my experience with everybody in the book. That was what was so cool. It's just an excuse to hang out… — Jeff Vespa Copy Share Image
No, books. She would have maybe twenty going at a time, lying all over our house--on the kitchen table, by her bed,… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
When I enter a library, when I enter the world of books, I feel the ghosts of the past on my shoulders… — Sara Paretsky Copy Share Image
In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest,… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Some of the things I love the most are when a writer or a visionary takes on sort of an iconic character… — Damon Lindelof Copy Share Image
After 19 years of experimenting, a thousand mistakes, over 400 books, at least 200 bad diets... and a partridge in a pear… — Marilu Henner Copy Share Image
Yes. To write a novel is to risk my sanity. The deeper I get into the suffering and conflict of the characters,… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
Zombie books were going to be my passion projects, but certainly not pay the bills. I thought I was going to have… — Max Brooks Copy Share Image
I was 12 or 13, and I had seen a demo about origami at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. My dad, my step-mom,… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
Not counting 'Small Steps,' I think 'Holes' is my best book, in terms of plot, and setting, and the way the story… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without… — Barbara Tuchman Copy Share Image
