“What a book the Bible is, what a miracle, what strength is given with it to man. It s like a mould… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
In the account book of the Great War the page recording the Russian losses has been ripped out. The figures are unknown.… — Paul von Hindenburg Copy Share Image
“You can't murder a book. Even I know that. But you know what you can do with a book, what you can… — Lady Jaida Copy Share Image
In our time, we have become too interested in the artist and his or her character and experience as a way of… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I was enjoying myself writing, because I don't know what's going to happen when I take a ride around that corner. You… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“Larry (Summers - director of the National Economic Council) taught me two very important lessons. The first: Never judge a book by… — Alyssa Mastromonaco Copy Share Image
People have to have the desire within themselves to find out who they are. Who am I and what am I doing… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
My book review site and first blog, which I started in 2003. I started it because I was lamenting that while I… — Debra Hamel Copy Share Image
My British publisher has this independent press. It's pretty small; they actually won last year. And she's got this great energy, and… — Paul Beatty Copy Share Image
I had a perfect confidence, still unshaken, in books. If you read enough you would reach the point of no return. You… — Helen Bevington Copy Share Image
People book me because of the songs I write, not because of the sets that I play, per se... I'm sure I'm… — Kaskade Copy Share Image
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Frank Moore Cross is also a leading Dead Sea Scrolls scholar, which he's been since they were discovered more than 50 years… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even… — Linwood Barclay Copy Share Image
Interference is a terrific page-turner, but it's also a haunting, powerful look at the way families and friendships entangle us all. Berry… — Rebecca Godfrey Copy Share Image
Negro writers, just by being black, have been on the blacklist all our lives. Do you know that there are libraries in… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I had always turned to books, to knowledge, to help me get through everything in my life—and, sometimes, to escape it. But… — Michele Bardsley Copy Share Image
If you must die a little to become immortal, then both Ali and Frazier died a bit that night in their third… — Teddy Atlas Copy Share Image
I wanted to create a heroine that was flawed. I wanted her to be a real person. She's selfish, she's childish, she's… — Amber Benson Copy Share Image
“When I was a kid, I just read and read. We were lucky enough to have gone to England and had a… — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
I hear some guy teaches a course in diagrammatic thinking now; he's written books on it and stuff like that, and so… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
When Emily Dickinson's poems were published in the 1890s, they were a best-seller; the first book of her poems went through eleven… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
I don't think I would ever write a book with what anybody could call pornography in it, because I feel that pornography… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
We're in a strange situation where people either don't read at all or they read a lot. There's a huge gap in… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I… — Robert Redford Copy Share Image
“The imagination circuit is taught to respond to the most minimal of cues. A book is an arrangement of 26 phonetic symbols,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
A lot of people say I tried to emulate Tupac, but when I look back at my career, we're very different artists.… — Ja Rule Copy Share Image
'Out of Africa,' Dinesen's second book, is a love story, though not the one portrayed by Streep and Redford in the film.… — Joanna Scott Copy Share Image
When I read Jerome D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye" that was the first time I felt my mind blow open.… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“The Black Book of Economic Development - The Clandestine Art and Practical Science of Building Local Economies” is a must-read for everyone… — Don Holbrook Copy Share Image
Invitations to speak upon public occasions are among my most grievous embarrassments. Why is it inferred that one is or can be… — Corra May Harris Copy Share Image
“So why a book? Well, since you’ve come into my life, you’ve been a constant source of entertainment while simultaneously driving me… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
It's true that I wouldn't have written the first book had my sister and mother been alive. It was my way of… — Nigella Lawson Copy Share Image
[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
. . . [Y]ou must understand that we have always considered the writing of books a hindrance to our work, and that… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
That underscored this idea that when we're reading a book or writing a book, you're in an act of co-creation. The reader… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Success is just hanging out with my kids. I mean, I always say if you have options, you're rich. To me, success… — Chris Rock Copy Share Image
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