“His reading has done him no harm, for he has fought as well as read.” — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever.” — Martin Farquhar Tupper Copy Share Image
“The brain is like a muscle; books are the diet and writing is the workout.” — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
I find life a mix of humor and pathos, and all my books reflect that to one degree or another. — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
There's something about each of my books that I'm really proud of, and there's something about each of my books that I… — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
The value of many men and books rests solely on their faculty for compelling all to speak out the most hidden and… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
“To take each day as a separate page, to be read carefully, savoring all of the details, this is best for me,… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
October is crisp days and cool nights, a time to curl up around the dancing flames and sink into a good book. — James Taylor Copy Share Image
I look at my first appointment book from 1965 and I get dizzy. I was constantly in a phone booth calling photographers. — Lauren Hutton Copy Share Image
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need… — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The world is your exercise book, the pages on which you do your sums. It is not reality, though you may express… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Intensely moving but never sentimental, Academy Street is a profound meditation on what Faulkner called 'the human heart in conflict with itself'.… — Ron Rash Copy Share Image
“Everyone thought she was so confident and together, but that was really a mask she wore to protect herself. The old adage… — Hope Worthington Copy Share Image
“You could use a moth like that as a symbol in a novel, but it was trite, wasn’t it? The old moth-to-the-flame… — L.L. Barkat Copy Share Image
Whenever a text-book is written of real educational worth, you may be quite certain that some reviewer will say that it will… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I wasn't seeing black girls in the books I was assigned to read at my school. I was tired of only reading… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
“They were doing their best to live like people invented in story books. This was the reason Americans shot each other so… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Movies are definitely more fun because there are so many different seasons in a movie. It is exciting to be drafting together.… — Stephen Kendrick Copy Share Image
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I used to read a lot of Steinbeck, and I admired Roger Miller and Bob Dylan. — John Prine Copy Share Image
All novels are about certain minorities: the individual is a minority. — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“... to lend a book is an incitement to theft." A Reader on Reading p. 281” — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
My dad's passion was to teach adults to read so they could read to their kids. — Jennie Garth Copy Share Image
To be worthy of assassination takes more than some crappy little book. — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
“Does world seem black and white to you? Read books. You will see color.” — Ksenia Anske Copy Share Image
“Never mind reading between the lines, try reading what's on them first.” — Teri Louise Kelly Copy Share Image
