“A person who reads lives more than one life, but that means that they die more than once as well.” — Deanna Vasquez Copy Share Image
The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The masses are still ungrateful or ignorant. They prefer murder, poisonings, and crimes generally to a literature possessed of style and feeling. — George Sand Copy Share Image
“I’m thirty-four years old and prefer to sit at home with a good book than go out and party.” — Susan Stoker Copy Share Image
A leader is a good reader of lifes experience as a better student to be the best teacher to others through live… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
In business, you can write your own book. The more unique it is from anything written before, the more likely it is… — Kenneth Cole Copy Share Image
I don't read loads of books, but I talk to and learn a lot from many different people I encounter and that's… — Ben Francis Copy Share Image
“This approach is refreshing because most of the programming books I've read are drier than a camel's fart.” — Alan Dipert Copy Share Image
“In this book, you’ll naturally look for common habits and recommendations, and you should. Here are a few patterns, some odder than… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“What they'd got was a fat, balding academic who bandied about the phrase "family annihilation", especially when there were cameras pointed at… — Sophie Hannah Copy Share Image
Literature is my calling To hold up the mirror to my countrymen comes natural to me; and in the open field of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For many children, the library represents their only access to books, reading, and the Internet outside of their home. If you think… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
Every author that creates is a liar;literature is a lie,but from that lie, a recreation of reality is born. Therefore, recreating reality… — Juan Rulfo Copy Share Image
“I only had two real tasks [while in Norway]: gathering dead trees to burn from the surrounding small forest and getting water… — Phil Elverum Copy Share Image
A life that partakes even a little of friendship, love, irony, humor, parenthood, literature, and music, and the chance to take part… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
Literature stands related to Man as Science stands to Nature; it is his history. — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
“I know she is coming I know she will look And that is the longing And this is the book.” — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
I found that inevitably you cannot fit everything that is in that book into what is inevitably going to go on screen. — Mike Vogel Copy Share Image
The best book on programming for the layman is 'Alice in Wonderland'; but that's because it's the best book on anything for… — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
The truly great books are the few books that are over everybody's head all of the time. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The first step in liquidating a people is to erase its memory. Destroy its books, its culture, its history. — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, when you look at the amount of comic book heroes out there, minority heroes are few and far between. — Cress Williams Copy Share Image
The first book that really knocked me out was the 'Brothers Karamazov.' I read it when I was a senior in high… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
Bumble-Ardy looks like a happy book. That's the funniest thing about it. But this was survival. I was working very hard to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“I love buying and collecting good books: I am passionate reader. This is my sacred life.” — Lailah Gifty Akita Copy Share Image
I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock. — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
Piece by piece I sent my first book of poems to American Poetry Review and was rejected one by one. — David Berman Copy Share Image
I had been attempting novels since I was 14 but always ran out of steam. High hopes, poor craftsmanship. — Michel Faber Copy Share Image
Reading some books isn't enough for you to get what the meaning of life is. You need to explore yourself, cause life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who actually tell stories, meaning people who write novels and make feature films, don't see themselves as storytellers. — Stefan Sagmeister Copy Share Image
To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
IRS all in my books getting they Matlock on. All this capitol it's like I left the caps lock on. — Drake Copy Share Image
In a social studies class I did a paper on the history of Attica, which ended up being a little book that… — Paul Smith Copy Share Image
Someone ought to publish a book about the doomsayers who keep publishing books about the end of publishing. — Evgeny Morozov Copy Share Image
“The average novel invariably reads like a detective's report. It is drab and tedious because it is never objective.” — Natsume Soseki Copy Share Image
There is no book in the world that is so thrilling, stirring and inspiring as the Upanishads. — Max Muller Copy Share Image
“What use is a good book...if you cannot share your pleasure in it with another?” — Manu Herbstein Copy Share Image
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image