“He’d read once that the measure of an idea was how relative it was not only to its time, but beyond. His” — Steve Berry Copy Share Image
I just got a fortune cookie that says "Turn off your computer and read a book" which is odd because I'm WRITING… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
I thoroughly believe that reading and literature can help a society to better understand itself. — Emmanuel Macron Copy Share Image
That's what I want as a reader - I want to be confident that the book will do its job. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
The power of literature does not lie in resonance with the particular but the way that the particular speaks to a broader,… — Clint Smith Copy Share Image
“Give up your holy books, and remember the Lord, you fool, and stop oppressing others so badly.” — Bhagat Kabir Copy Share Image
“Like something out of one of those special forces books, only the one he’s in is called Bravo Too Stupid.” — Mark Sennen Copy Share Image
When you get that email that says: FX show, political-oriented, starring Cate Blanchett, you're more inclined to take a quick read than… — Ryan Fleck Copy Share Image
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart; We may live without friends;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A journalist who says, 'Well, I pissed off both sides--I must be doing something right,' is probably fooling himself and, worse, he… — Joe Sacco Copy Share Image
A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime… — John Cusack Copy Share Image
[A novel by Henry James] is like a church lit but without a congregation to distract you, with every light and line… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
We share our lives with others who may be in our lives for a moment, an episode, a chapter, or for the… — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book - When you grow up and have children of your own, do please… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“[about a book lent by a crush] Last night I read into the wee small hours. Fell asleep with my face in… — Bob Condron Copy Share Image
“I say, ‘Why don’t you write an anti-glacier book instead?’” What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It was a great place to write a novel about book burning, in the library basement. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The books that I wrote in my late teens and 20s, the little love stories, they were right from the heart. — Ruskin Bond Copy Share Image
I am convinced that the minimum-wage law is the most anti-Negro law on our statute books in its effect, not its intent. — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship. — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
At the age of 9, I read David Copperfield by Dickens. At 14, I read War and Peace by Tolstoy. They're both… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
If God himself has waited six thousand years for someone to contemplate his works, my book can wait for a hundred. — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Poetry should begin with emotion in the poet, and end with the same emotion in the reader. The poem is simply the… — Philip Larkin Copy Share Image
What's the matter, you never do blow before? Sometimes your heart stop, it start up again. Read a book. -Mr. Chow — The Hangover 2 Copy Share Image
I did a book event with a former colleague, Bob Bauer, and was so relieved that he said I got all the… — Valerie Plame Copy Share Image
“The creeping sense that he might have seen him reading the book came up from the ground, but that was more anxiety… — Natasha Pulley Copy Share Image
“He passed the time reading books on Zen Buddhism and playing basketball, where his ball-hogging style of play earned him the nickname… — Joshua Green Copy Share Image
The man who doctors himself with the aid of medical books, runs the risk of dying of a typographical error. — Evan Esar Copy Share Image
Somebody threw a book at President Obama. If you're trying to scare a president by throwing a book at him, you're one… — David Letterman Copy Share Image
According to a Wall Street Journal article some 59 percent of Americans don t own a single book. Not a cookbook or… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Many a preacher misses the mark because, though he knows books, he does not know men. — James Stalker Copy Share Image
I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me. — Vin Scully Copy Share Image
Writing a book isn’t an easy process nor is it always enjoyable, but it is one of life’s most satisfying achievements. — Guy Kawasaki Copy Share Image
One of the best things about summer is that it's the only time of year I don't have crazy amounts of studying… — Kelly Gale Copy Share Image
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
If I read a book that impresses me, I have to take myself firmly in hand before I mix with other people;… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
For me, the whole process involves envisioning this Ghost World comic book in my head as I'm working. — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
Every day, I read books on philosophy and science fiction and human consciousness. — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
“Of course his life could be found in the pages of a book; I had just begun to notice that the lives… — Jamaica Kincaid Copy Share Image
There are lots of authentic, moving characters in so-called systems novels, just as there are certainly deep structural ideas in some character-driven… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
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