Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
A good book holds you down. It’s an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic. — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Make thy books thy companions. Let thy cases and shelves be thy pleasure grounds and gardens. — Judah ben Saul ibn Tibbon Copy Share Image
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“I had books. Reading them is like travelling to other places. Being other people. Living other lives.” — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
I love books and going to bookstores. My favorite sound is the sound of the needle hitting the record. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
“Any self-help book in the world will tell you that you can’t just run your past away.” — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
“our backs tell stories no books have the spine to carry - women of color” — Rupi Kaur Copy Share Image
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves,… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“The books, always the books. And for themselves, not to become rich or famous like sensible people. Are we not foolish? But… — Ward Moore Copy Share Image
Out of respect to writers, you have to read the book in the way in which the author visualised it going out… — Joanna Trollope Copy Share Image
In my experience, it's not just that serious books get a hearing on comedy shows. But serious books get a serious hearing,… — Michael Mandelbaum Copy Share Image
Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
I'm a big 'Star Wars' fan and grew up watching the movies. I read all the books and have read 'Star Wars'… — Jared Padalecki Copy Share Image
There are many ways of discarding [books]. You can give them to friends,--or enemies,--or to associations or to poor Southern libraries. But… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
If I'm writing a story and you're reading it, or vice versa, you took time out of your day to pick up… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Unless there is a strong sense of place there is no travel writing, but it need not come from topographical description; dialogue… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
You don't hear TV cops griping because they have to enforce some Draconian law that shouldn't be on the books in the… — Tom Shales Copy Share Image
The term Big Brother is from George Orwell's book 1984 - where everyone's watched over by a network of cameras called Big… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
A man is known by the books he reads, by the company he keeps, by the praise he gives, by his dress,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One of the things that makes characters real is details. Life offers a lot of details. You just have to choose and… — Nick Earls Copy Share Image
What's your favorite book?' is a question that is usually only asked by children and banking identity-verification services--and favorite isn't, anyway, the… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
If I walk into a place, a party, say, and there's a bookshelf, I immediately gravitate toward it. Unless there's a bar.… — Jonathan Evison Copy Share Image
“There's a certain kind of conversation you have from time to time at parties in New York about a new book. The… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
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