“My book isn't meant to be read all at once, but rather all in good time” — Justin Bienvenue Copy Share Image
First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life. — Hortense Calisher Copy Share Image
“Bullets aren't going to better the world, but books can, and will.” — Matshona Dhliwayo Copy Share Image
A book is really like a lover. It arranges itself in your life in a way that is beautiful. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Hell, I'm going to play pro basketball. I'm going to maybe be famous. I'm going to write books. — John Edgar Wideman Copy Share Image
You've got to do something with all the books you've read, so you might as well imagine you've optioned them. — Natasha Lyonne Copy Share Image
“A book always tells more about the author than the protagonist himself.” — Sneha Mehta Copy Share Image
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They have this big book called the 'DSM-IV,' you know, that is supposedly written about crazy people, but I think it is… — William Glasser Copy Share Image
A lot of the time with jobs that I've booked, immediately I'll read the breakdown, or I'll read the script, and I'm… — India Eisley Copy Share Image
At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line… — John Piper Copy Share Image
Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after the first light as possible.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“But this book does not offer a single page of original and unpublished work. What then is the need, now, for such… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Brian Turner has given us not so much a memoir as a mediation, rendered with grace and wit and wisdom. If you… — Larry Heinemann Copy Share Image
As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are… — Brian J. White Copy Share Image
Others, again, give us the mere carcass of another man’s thoughts, but deprived of all their life and spirit, and this is… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressionism - Couture advocates it in… — John Singer Sargent Copy Share Image
There is a truth in Schopenhauer’s view that philosophy is an organism, and that a book on philosophy, with a beginning and… — Ludwig Wittgenstein Copy Share Image
The reason for writing that essay was less a personal agenda than an attempt to explain my unease with the general label… — Sasa Stanisic Copy Share Image
The expectation was that 'True Confessions' would be my first published book, but that didn't happen. After it was rejected by every… — Rachel Gibson Copy Share Image
A good book deserves an active reading. The activity of reading does not stop with the work of understanding what a book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you collect marine animals there are certain flat worms so delicate that they are almost impossible to catch whole for they… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
