Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C. — Hugh Nibley Copy Share Image
Our true birthplace is that in which we cast for the first time an intelligent eye on ourselves. My first homelands were… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
I write the kinds of novels I like to read, where the setting is rendered with love and care. — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
There can be no revival apart from the Holy Ghost; He is the author of every Heaven-sent movement. — James Alexander Stewart-Mackenzie Copy Share Image
All great books contain boring portions, and all great lives have contained uninteresting stretches. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I think once you sort of cross over and you realize what books can be - and if they mean something to… — Molly Ringwald Copy Share Image
“Liest man, was alle anderen auch lesen, kann man auch nur das denken, was alle anderen denken.” — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
You do a film and you have hopes for it, and you read it, and you see it one way in your… — Alan Tudyk Copy Share Image
To divert myself from a troublesome fancy, it is but to run to my books; they presently fix me to them, and… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“This is every reader's catch-22: the more you read, the more you realize you haven't read; the more you yearn to read… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
You really burden the reader if you put things in but, "Oh, it's not interesting, but I'll put it in anyway." Then… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
“I need fiction, I am an addict. This is not a figure of speech. I don’t quite read a novel a day,… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
“He wanted to run through the stacks, pick at the books, sample them one after the other, climb the stacks to their… — Lavie Tidhar Copy Share Image
In October 1920 I went to Leeds as Reader in English Language, with a free commission to develop the linguistic side of… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Children's books are often seen as the poor relation of literature. But children are just as demanding as adult readers, if not… — David Walliams Copy Share Image
“In his novels from beginning to end, Dickens is making the same point always: that to the English governing classes the people… — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
I'm obsessed with Nicholas Sparks. I've literally read every single book, because every time I travel, at the airport, I always buy… — Emma Roberts Copy Share Image
…She was, obviously, one of those women whose polished words may reflect a book club or bridge club, or any other deadly… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
On one occasion I went to Afghanistan to look at the borders and learn something about the situation there to see if… — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell...” — Victoria Schwab Copy Share Image
Don't try to anticipate an ideal reader - or any reader. He/she might exist - but is reading someone else. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“Strive to be beyond what others perceive you to be, by striving beyond the limits of yourself.” — Debbie Tosun Kilday Copy Share Image
Relatinships r like a book It taks a few seconds to burn But It takes years to write So write it carfuly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read. — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
Many Muslims may not seek to kill the infidel, but they don't want to condemn those carrying out the holy book command. — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
For me, every translation is a new book, with the translator inevitably broadening the meaning of the original book in any translation. — Agustin Fernandez Mallo Copy Share Image
“All I need to survive is the air in my lungs, my best friend in my left hand and a book in… — Jolien Goedleven Copy Share Image
“Isn't it what all librarians strive toward, at least in the movies and cliches? Silence, invisibility, nothing but a rambling cloud of… — Rebecca Makkai Copy Share Image
After these three novels I gave up writing novels for a time; I was dissatisfied with romantic doom, yet didn't see much… — Nicholas Mosley Copy Share Image
Novels, in my experience, are slow in coming, and once I've begun them I know I have years rather than months of… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
We are born to die tomorrow, and yet through books we are able to know events of thousands of years. — Yamaga Soko Copy Share Image
There is such a flood of TV shows, movies, video games, comics, and books, but somehow 'Avatar' is still being discovered by… — Bryan Konietzko Copy Share Image
I'm a big expert in boxing, but in politics I'm a beginner, so I try to use other people's experience. I read… — Vitali Klitschko Copy Share Image
“But here’s an ugly truth about typos and other small editing mistakes: They exist in traditional books, too.” — Sean Platt Copy Share Image
I like to blur the line between fact and fiction, but not to condescend to the reader by enmeshing her/him into some… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
“The world of books is a world of wonder. She's been out there a little bit. Into the world.” — Sally-Ann Murray Copy Share Image
A lot of the times you read something and you don't realize that you are going to have to do the things… — Will Ferrell Copy Share Image
Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr, and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad. — David Karp Copy Share Image
“I can no longer remember the books I have read than the meals I have eaten, but they have made me.” — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
