“Books are like batteries, he says. And you grow a little stronger by reading them, surrounding yourself with them.” — Benjamin Percy Copy Share Image
Successful salesmen, authors, executives and workmen of every sort need patience. The great liability of youth is not inexperience but impatience. — William Feather Copy Share Image
My confidence in the future of literature consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can give us, by… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
With relatively few exceptions, the novel sacrifices too much, for me, on the altar of plot. — David Shields Copy Share Image
I encourage a lot of young women to read. I tell them that it will change their lives. — Lara Dutta Copy Share Image
Among non-fiction authors I like Richard Bach, Nichiren Daishonin, Burton Watson, Deepak Chopra and MJ Akbar. — Mukul Dev Copy Share Image
In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern. — Amy Lowell Copy Share Image
Life is like a book.. It takes months or maybe years to print.. but just a second to burn in a fire.. — Kand3n Copy Share Image
The question I am most often asked is how do I find my ideas? The answer is I don't. Ideas find me.… — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
“My purpose in writing this book is that you would not be surprised when suffering comes into your life. I want you… — R.C. Sproul Copy Share Image
The difficulty with film is you always have to consign a story to being a certain length, whereas with a book you… — Emilia Fox Copy Share Image
I know I'm a grumpy old man, but I'm always more delighted by readers talking about the actual comics than people talking… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
“I propitiated the knife-wielding deities with presents of books. The gifts to them and the head of nursing were also meant to… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
The new book is a result of my well-documented... absorption in Samurai movie culture. It's called 'The 47th Samurai: A Bob Lee… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's… — Sean O'Casey Copy Share Image
The book is true, and if evidence seems to condtradict it, it is the evidence that must be thrown out not the… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
If you're a voracious reader and you write something that you want to read, odds are other people will want to read… — Tim Maleeny Copy Share Image
“Readers of my online journal - I refuse to use the word blog because it sounds like something that lives on a… — Yahtzee Croshaw Copy Share Image
The first thing I did when I sold my book was buy a new wedding ring for my wife and asked her… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
But in all things whether we shall make only a due use of the liberties we have asked, is left entirely to… — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
“I was always reading books when I should have been doing math and the rest of it.” — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
“I remember the hours I had spent in Father's library, drugging myself with books so I could forget my doom for an… — Rosamund Hodge Copy Share Image
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic. — Stephen Cole Kleene Copy Share Image
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
A Diogenesian search for an honest person would rarely lead to the author of a memoir. — Tony Blankley Copy Share Image
The fact that a book or publication is popular does not necessarily make it of value. — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
When it comes to creating graphic novels I always deliberately work on something completely different to the previous one. — Bryan Talbot Copy Share Image
I loved the theatre-my dad gave me many plays and books to read. The dramatic form just spoke to me. — Danny Burstein Copy Share Image
But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the… — Fay Godwin Copy Share Image
Comic books are a big thing. I looked at them when I was a kid. I'm not a kid anymore, so I… — Scott Steiner Copy Share Image
“She had a grocer's faith in books; they can be handed out like Green Stamps and were redeemable for a variety of… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers. — Brian Lumley Copy Share Image
A poem is a private story, after all, no matter how apparently public. The reader is always overhearing a confession. — Jorie Graham Copy Share Image
To be quite honest, the joyful relief of the publication of my book was short-lived. — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
I was a big fan of Kurt Angle when I was growing up. Actually, his book is a big part of the… — Cesaro Copy Share Image
