We should be as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
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Your response to literature is to do with maturity; if you don't respond to a book or a poem when you are… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books. — Alan King Copy Share Image
I started out as a poet. I've always been a poet since I was 7 or 8. And so I feel myself… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Most of you didn't think that helping people share books would be a subversive act...Yet the fact is that you have chosen… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
“Renee: "You know what I did when I finished Moby Dick?" David: "You harpooned the guy that sold you the book?” — John C. Stipa Copy Share Image
I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“In one of the books he learned that the most important text in the literature of alchemy contained only a few lines,… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“When I first went to Rwanda, I was reading a book called Civil War, which had been receiving great critical acclaim. Writing… — Philip Gourevitch Copy Share Image
This book is pointing the way into it for people that see it as daunting or a mystery. Some people just do… — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
Any historian of the literature of the modern age will take virtually for granted the adversary intention, the actually subversive intention, that… — Lionel Trilling Copy Share Image
Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only… — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
The 'inquests' which resulted in the compilation of the Domesday Book made a vivid and unfavorable impression on the country. A similar… — Edward Jenks Copy Share Image
The unique, compelling, and earnest voice that characterizes Jedediah’s weekly columns comes alive with increased vitality in OUTNUMBERED. She shatters leftist stereotypes… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to… — Holbrook Jackson Copy Share Image
The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more. — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
“There was an odd rule throughout the College that no girl might buy a book.” — Jane Ellen Harrison Copy Share Image
“a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.” — Tobias Wolff Copy Share Image
“Books are road map to your destination called success. Refer to good ones.” — Vikrmn Copy Share Image
“Why bother with other people's worlds made of words? was his philosophy.” — Sara Nelson Copy Share Image
A book begins with an image or character or situation that I care about deeply. — Danielle Steel Copy Share Image
