Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I feel like I need to give people a note with the book that says, 'I'm OK, no worries!' — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I've always liked libraries. They're quiet and full of books and full of knowledge. — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
I wouldn't write a book, because saying the word I over and over again would nauseate me. — John Kluge Copy Share Image
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The Compassionate Classroom is a fabulous book! If teachers will read it, they can transform their classrooms. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Only in the most unusual cases is it useful to determine whether a book is good or bad; for it is just… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Everything has the potential to be extraordinary, whether an old photograph, a book or a life. If you find it ordinary, you… — Claire Cameron Copy Share Image
Faces are as legible as books, only with these circumstances to recommend them to our perusal, that they are read in much… — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I find I clash sometimes with people who like to plan things and book you in for lunch. I'd rather someone call… — Rosamund Pike Copy Share Image
When self-interest inclines a man to print, he should consider that the purchaser expects a pennyworth for his penny, and has reason… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
“A piece of writing is a trap,” he said cheerily, “and the best kind. A book, you see, is the only kind… — Tad Williams Copy Share Image
“When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
A broad margin of leisure is as beautiful in a man's life as in a book. Haste makes waste, no less in… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
There was no Marshall Plan for Harry Potter, no International Financing Facility for books about underage wizards. It is heartbreaking that global… — William Easterly Copy Share Image
I can't imagine myself outside any kind of social or political involvement. Yes, I'm a writer, but I live in this world,… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
When I began to read as an adult, I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Every time you hear someone read your book and liked your book, you're never sure whether that's going to follow with a… — Joshua Ferris Copy Share Image
“You turn the book over in your hands, you scan the sentences on the back of the jacket, generic phrases that don't… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial… — Galt Niederhoffer Copy Share Image
