Every book takes you to the terror, that terrible place of possible failure. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out. — Norman MacCaig Copy Share Image
“Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been." _Mark Twain (Author)” — Kat Kaelin Copy Share Image
Children read books, not reviews. They don't give a hoot about critics. — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
“In nature, the bird who gets up earliest catches the most worms, but in book collecting the prizes fall to birds who… — Michael Sadleir Copy Share Image
No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader. — Adam Carolla Copy Share Image
It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not,… — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
I want literature to open all the doors that I can't open by myself, and to allow me to see things that… — Martha Ronk Copy Share Image
The cover, thickness and knowledge in a book often has little value, the secret is to know when to turn the page. — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
If you have a question about anything, the answer can be found in a book somewhere in the library. — Bill Cosby Copy Share Image
The Bible is not for the people; whosoever will be saved must renounce it. It is a forbidden book. Bible societies are… — Pope Pius IV Copy Share Image
“All these things Alanna knew from her father's books and maps, but the reality took her breath away as a paragraph written… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
I think the book [Straight to the Heart: Political Cantos] has meaning for any large city with urban problems. There are political… — Angela Alioto Copy Share Image
What I'm constantly striving for in my prose is clarity. So that, ideally, the writing will become so transparent that the reader… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
“After Bailey came Samuel Johnson, His Cantankerousness. Son of a London bookseller, a university dropout, afflicted with depression and what modern doctors… — Kory Stamper Copy Share Image
“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading… — Steve Kendall Copy Share Image
My first novel - the novel I wrote before 'Midnight's Children' - feels, to me, now, very - I mean, I get… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
When you're somebody who has the pretension to make art, it's completely different from when someone else says I want to make… — Luis Gonzalez Copy Share Image
I've always written in first person. It gives the readers more insight. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
All the books I have written have been one book, from the beginning. — Marguerite Young Copy Share Image
The worth of a book is to be measured by what you can carry away from it. — James Bryce Copy Share Image
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Sometimes I forget when I read a book that it didn't exist in English first. — Ali Liebegott Copy Share Image
It's always a challenge to adapt a novel for screen, a visual medium. — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
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