Even in an advanced stage of civilization, there is always a tendency to prefer those parts of literature which favor ancient prejudices,… — Henry Thomas Buckle Copy Share Image
'Celebrate' is meant to be a guide to party planning and, as such, it has to cover the basics. If I were… — Pippa Middleton Copy Share Image
Alister McGrath has now written two books with my name in the title. The poet W. B. Yeats, when asked to say… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“To publish besides the results the way (and the order!) in which they were reached, to mention the blind alleys as well,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once I got into college, I discovered literature - in particular, multicultural literature. I just started to understand the power of story… — Matt de la Pena Copy Share Image
America is the only nation in the world that is founded on creed. That creed is set forth with dogmatic and even… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Genealogy of ideas. You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
“Sex appeal was the “spoonful of sugar” that helped the “medicine” of feminism go down. A liberated heroine who still looked sexy… — Mike Madrid Copy Share Image
As a writer, I never want to have an author's message. I really want to present a situation with it in as… — Stephen Schwartz Copy Share Image
I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“The most important thing we've learned, So far as children are concerned, Is never, NEVER, NEVER let Them near your television set… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“And I tell you what, this whole let me read to you thing is just about the most tender expression I've ever… — J.A. Huss Copy Share Image
“Books are to be call’d for, and supplied, on the assumption that the process of reading is nor a half-sleep, but, in… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
If I'd learnt one thing from travelling, it was that the way to get things done was to go ahead and do… — Alex Garland Copy Share Image
“Mikazuki Publishing House What our Friends Think We Do: Advertising, Marketing, Selling, Promotion. What Authors Think We Do: Cut checks and hand… — kambiz mostofizadeh Copy Share Image
So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to… — Lee Child Copy Share Image
Hard-covered books break up friendships. You loan a hard covered book to a friend and when he doesn’t return it you get… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I only read magazines when I travel, which tend to be a combination of lads' mags, which keep me entertained, and publications… — Colin Jackson Copy Share Image
I start with theory rather than people. I don't like novels which have no theoretical or philosophical underpinning. I hate the contemporary… — Neel Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“I am trying to come up with some "adult" reads, but I mostly read young adult fiction (my job), which, by the… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
If you take a big epic novel and you shoot it, when you get to the editing room you notice that it… — Pirjo Honkasalo Copy Share Image
I'm a failed poet. Reading poetry helps me to see the world differently, and I try to infuse my prose with figurative… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
All three of my books, "Perfume Dreams: Reflections on the Vietnamese Diaspora," "East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres," and "Birds of… — Andrew Lam Copy Share Image
“Rough week, right? Listen, every book in your home is one of us saying to you, please hold on until the end.… — Warren Ellis Copy Share Image
“Your mail could've waited." Daemon followed me into the kitchen. "What is it? Just books?" Grabbing the OJ from the fridge, I… — Jennifer L. Armentrout Copy Share Image
You ever talk about a movie with someone that read the book? They're always so condescending. 'Ah, the book was much better… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians… — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala Copy Share Image
No refining of one's taste in matters of art or literature, no sharpening of one's powers of insight in matters of science… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“Worldview" is not based on books; it is an internal form, which at times in a person with little education is expressed… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
I haven't read for pleasure in 35 years. I mean, I get a lot of pleasure from what I read... For me,… — Michael Dirda Copy Share Image
A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The way I found time to write 'The Imperfectionists' was that I took work as a copy editor at the 'International Herald… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I have 7,000 DVDs and Blu-rays. I have thousands of books - thousands - and roughly 15,000 comic books or something like… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches,… — Charles V. Chapin Copy Share Image
We have published about 800,000 documents of various kinds that relate to Russia. Most of those are critical; and a great many… — Julian Assange Copy Share Image
My belief of book writing is much the same as my belief as to shoemaking. The man who will work the hardest… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
If you take out of your statutes, your constitution, your family life all that is taken from the Sacred Book, what would… — Benjamin Harrison Copy Share Image
“-and finally, to all of you who've come here tonight to celebrate children's books: every time you find the right, the necessary… — Katherine Applegate Copy Share Image
“The silence was a comfortable one, as if they had known each other for a long time. This was a feeling about… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
