“Knowledge, you may get from books but wisdom is trapped within you, release it.” — Ismat Ahmed Shaikh Copy Share Image
Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live it. — John Hersey Copy Share Image
“You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly---Sam Keen, Author” — Sam Keen Copy Share Image
It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by… — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms… — Phillips Brooks Copy Share Image
My greatest influence has been the blues. And that's a literary influence, because I think the blues is the best literature that… — August Wilson Copy Share Image
A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
If a book really wants the patronage of a great name, it is a bad book; and if it be a good… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Readers no longer need novelists to tell us what it's like to cross the world on a ship or fight a war.… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
“Your taste in books says more about you than any other single object in your house. It reflects your interest, your intelligence,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
“It is a place of fine weather, and this is a book of fine weather, a book written in Spring. I will… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
“Here, reader, thou must pardon us if we stop a while to lament the capriciousness of Nature in forming this charming part… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
“The Paradox of Choice has a simple yet profoundly life-altering message for all Americans. Schwartz’s eleven practical, simple steps to becoming less… — Barry Schwartz Copy Share Image
Whenever I was encouraged by my elders to pick up a book, I was often told, 'Read so as to know the… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
When you write a book, people legitimise it by actually reading the book and so it's almost okay to write another one. — Eoin Macken Copy Share Image
Read books, listen to tapes, attend seminars-they are decades of wisdom reduced to invaluable hours. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
At 'GQ,' there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the… — John Jeremiah Sullivan Copy Share Image
I was in three academic clubs, a huge book worm and the teacher's pet. I was kind of an easy target for… — Nicole Anderson Copy Share Image
“You are your greatest product and behind every book lies an author who wrote it.” — Geraldine Solon Copy Share Image
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and… — Van Wyck Brooks Copy Share Image
The novel since its origins has been the privatization of history... the history of private life ... and in that sense every… — Jose Emilio Pacheco Copy Share Image
“He believed books had an aura that protected him, that without one beside him he would die. He happily slept without women.… — Richard Flanagan Copy Share Image
“Why are you doing this?” One of his hands caressed the books. “Because books are made to be read,” I told him.… — Katherine Allred Copy Share Image
To me, reading a fashion magazine is the last thing I need to do. I've got books I need to read. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women. — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
She said writting novels was like childbirth: if you truly remembered how awful it got, you'd never do it again. — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
When I travel, I can leave everything at home apart from books. I curate my holiday reading rigorously and would be devastated… — Lisa Jewell Copy Share Image
Never settle for being a character in someone else's story when you are meant to be the author of your own. — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so… — David Nicholls Copy Share Image
“Mm, Willa Cather. A brilliant author. And this is her best, hands down. It's the one she was meant to write.” — M. Pierce Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as a good book or a bad book. There's a book that matters to a reader. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
I've been involved in lots of comic book stuff; I've done numerous films based on comic books and TV shows. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan Copy Share Image
England has two books, one which she has made and one which has made her: Shakespeare and the Bible. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The investors who generate big returns over five years, the guys they write books about, are supposed to keep winning, right? Well,… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
To distract myself from tiresome thoughts, I have only to resort to books; they easily draw my mind to themselves and away… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption… — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I'm 100% against abortion unless you were raped or you can die from giving birth. The only two exceptions in my book. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
