“If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for.” — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I grew up raiding my brother's comic book stash. I tried to lose myself in fiction. — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
The child lives in the book; but just as much the book lives in the child. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
The first book that they gave me was Jeannie, a young teenager. I went on with her maybe ten books. — Dan DeCarlo Copy Share Image
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My book should smell of pines and resound with the hum of insects. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've… — Jennifer Saunders Copy Share Image
Theres always an anxiety about playing literary characters because one of the great joys of reading books is that you can create… — Stephen Mangan Copy Share Image
A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
No matter how much time you spend reading books or following your intuition, you're gonna screw it up. Fifty times. You can't… — Alan Arkin Copy Share Image
The library furnished our dreams, helped us shape our ambitions, made up people of books and ideas and grand designs. — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a… — Todd McFarlane Copy Share Image
This life is an secret book,which time, what will happen no one knows and no one can predict but only on can… — Dolpalimala Copy Share Image
The beginning of a book is always the hardest part for me. I'm a Chapter 3 kind of writer, which means I… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
Joaquin Jackson's frank and colorful account of his long career as a modern-day Texas Ranger thrills like an action novel, yet the… — Elmer Kelton Copy Share Image
The whole thing that Dante [Alighieri] did was summed up in the medieval world. It's like St. Thomas Aquinas, the Summa Theologica.… — Paul Laffoley Copy Share Image
The reason I was successful in launching my first book with bloggers is this: I assumed that I should spend as much… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The great thing about books was the solidity of the written word. You might change and your reading might change as a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God is going to reveal to us things He never revealed before if we put our hands in His. No books ever… — George Washington Carver Copy Share Image
Maybe every other American movie shouldn't be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
In many ways we've become the Babylon of the modern era. We learned our lessons at the feet of Nebuchadnezzar himself. It's… — O. S. Hawkins Copy Share Image
It's funny what [producer Richard Zanuck said about even though you can't quite place when the book or the story came into… — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
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