Publishers, naturally, loathe used books and have developed strategies to depress the secondhand market. They bring out new, even more expensive editions… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
To learn a piece on the piano - even a simple one - has proved every bit as agonizing as writing a… — Ben Dolnick Copy Share Image
Every book I write is filled with ideas to open people's minds. And many of my books are intended for the lay… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
Of tobacco and its consequences, I will say nothing but that the practice is at too bad a pass to leave hope… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Set we forward; let A Roman and a British ensign wave Friendly together. So through Lud's town march, And in the temple… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, (And what he brings what need… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Many European countries, as well as Australia, Canada, Israel, and New Zealand, have adopted legislation that creates a 'public lending right', where… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Spoilers are cowardly. They're just people who want to anesthetize themselves against the tension and the experience that the director and the… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
People need to get involved in their neighborhood groups and the many housing reform groups that are out there. We need to… — Solly Granatstein Copy Share Image
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don't belong to Him. You… — Kenneth Copeland Copy Share Image
The Treatise of the Three Impostors is a book that enjoyed centuries of notorious nonexistence until (as Voltaire would say) it became… — Joscelyn Godwin Copy Share Image
“Books were my hobby, even as a child,' he told me. 'I read about every book in Milkwaukee Public Library before I… — Ruth Brandon Copy Share Image
When I had the idea for 'Shopaholic', it was as though a light switched on. I realised I actually wanted to write… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
The short story is so much about inevitability and this feeling that things always had to be this one way, and I… — Lucy Corin Copy Share Image
(in response to the question: what do you think of e-books and Amazon’s Kindle?) Those aren’t books. You can’t hold a computer… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I like living in the city where I have all my books and music and can go out to buy that night's… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Book critics certainly are judges who wield a tremendous amount of power in terms of whether or not a book will reach… — Daniel Olivas Copy Share Image
This thought-provoking novel portrays the absurdity of our overbearing government bureaucracy with a story that is entertaining and fast-paced. The Taxman Cometh… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
For many years I was trying to find answers only through books but then I realized that basically, life is about experience… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“My mother says that reading is thinking,’ Sofia said. ‘Not that we read and then we think, but rather that we think… — Ricardo Piglia Copy Share Image
A friend of mine who writes history books said to me that he thought that the two creatures most to be pitied… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Nothing could be slow enough, nothing lasts too long. No pleasure could equal, she thought, straightening the chairs, pushing in one book… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I wanted to know what it was like to be a drug addict, and have an eating disorder, and have a loved… — Jackson Pearce Copy Share Image
When I take up a book I have read before, I know what to expect; the satisfaction is not lessened by being… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
I mean somebody could write another book and say Brad's idea about Buddhism and sex is wrong, and here's mine, and that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
I was never confident about finishing a book, but friends encouraged me. When I finished my first book, it was accepted by… — Jackie Collins Copy Share Image
If you miss the bus, miss the train, you’d be left behind. So everyone says, let’s get on the train, let’s get… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest… — Josh Hutcherson Copy Share Image
When you are out of favor, so to speak, it's not just the reviewers. It's the editors, the publishers, they don't want… — Frederic Tuten Copy Share Image
"March" was inspired by "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story." I actually first heard about that comic from John Lewis, who… — Andrew Aydin Copy Share Image
Identity is a bag and a gag. Yet it exists for me with all the force of a fatal disease. Obviously I… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
For the growing number of people seeking to approach the ideas of Gurdjieff, Toward Awakening by Jean Vaysse offers reliable guidance, as… — Jacob Needleman Copy Share Image
One of the few things I know about writing is this: spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
He loved a book because it was a book; he loved its odor, its form, its title. What he loved in a… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Suzanne Collins, it was such a big thing for me to make the handshake with her and to say, 'You can trust… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I… — Judy Blume Copy Share Image
We understand a person with problems, someone who is wrong about a lot of things in his or her life, who makes… — Tod Goldberg Copy Share Image
![“God's on the outside looking in. He doesn't have any legal entree into the earth. The thing don't belong to Him. You see how sassy the Devil was in the presence of God in the book of Job? God said, 'Where have you been?' Wasn't any of God's business. He [Satan] didn't even have to answer if he…” quote by Kenneth Copeland](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8a0/kenneth-copeland-7959_answers_god-s-on-the-outside-looking-in-he-doesn_2519167.jpg)
![“I thought [books ban] was crazy. Really my thoughts were "This is America, we don't do this here" but of course I know a lot better now. And I wasn't the only one. Norma Klein was writing at the same time. Her books were going. So many of us. When you say to me, no you can't do this I say, oh yes…” quote by Judy Blume](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/e83/judy-blume-2002_america_i-thought-books-ban-was-crazy-really-my_2458765.png)
