Whoever lacks the initiative to read books stifles his own selfhood, — Carl F. H. Henry Copy Share Image
A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man. — Carl Sandburg Copy Share Image
Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had to find my way of translating the excitement you get when you're reading comic books to the big screen. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
Old reference books are like tree rings. Without them, there'd be no way to know what a tree had lived through. — Jill Lepore Copy Share Image
You can't develop character by reading books. You develop it from conflict. — Leonard Ravenhill Copy Share Image
This is the first teaching of the Knights: You will erase everything you had written in the book of your life up… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Nothing, it appears to me, is of greater value in a man than the power of judgment; and the man who has… — Pietro Aretino Copy Share Image
I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about?… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
Every one of my books is written from the viewpoint of cops, with the exception of my book Killer on the Road,… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings. — Jan Tschichold Copy Share Image
Ten years from now, no one is going to care how quickly the books came out. The only thing that will matter,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
It is one of the strongest bonds, I think, that can spring up between people: sharing a passion for certain books and… — Alice Steinbach Copy Share Image
My judgement is not good when I am on a book tour. I am not thinking about it that much. What happens… — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
The little dog-eared books in the meeting-house proved poor reading ... So many of them were about unnaturally good children who never… — Annie Fellows Johnston Copy Share Image
The Big L was cold crazy, A top-notch crook snatchin' pocket books from old ladies I told him, "Give up the dough,… — Big L Copy Share Image
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
“My sort wants the book in its entirety. We need to touch it, to examine the weight of its paper and the… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
I'm not really into comfort books. There are too many of those as it is. Just sort of narcotic books, like my… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Everything Brecht wrote—plays, dialogues, and poetry—was his attempt to clarify the inner contradictions not only of the capitalism and fascism of his… — Richard Foreman Copy Share Image
It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that… — Stuart Dodgson Collingwood Copy Share Image
