i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by… — Robert Jordan Copy Share Image
In politics I am growing indifferent - I would like it, if I could now return to my planting and books at… — Ulysses S. Grant Copy Share Image
“If people would read more of these humor books, they wouldn’t need all those self-improvement books!” — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Who knows the flower best? - the one who reads about it in a book, or the one who finds it wild… — Alexandra David-Neel Copy Share Image
The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our… — Jan Karon Copy Share Image
I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I love to read. I'm still pen pals with my ninth-grade English teacher, Mr. Shanley. He tells me what books to read. — Rooney Mara Copy Share Image
“The attentive reading of a book is really a continuous commentary, a succession of notes that emanate from the inner voice.” — Paul Valéry Copy Share Image
“They say the dead can’t speak, but they can! The people in this book died over sixty years ago, in the middle… — Connie Willis Copy Share Image
I just hope that readers and publishers continue to appreciate good writing and good storytelling in all their various forms. And I… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write, but coming from a small-town background - I was born and brought up in Ludhiana - you… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
“The last time I read piles of erotica by choice, I was fourteen. At that stage, having no experience with men beyond… — Fiona Pitt-Kethley Copy Share Image
A lot of people love the idea of improvising but are terrified of it, so I tried to make a book that… — Sally Schneider Copy Share Image
My novels tend to take a long time to become exactly what they're going to be. They're fluid messes until I've done… — Dennis Cooper Copy Share Image
“He [Wordsworth] invited his readers to abandon their usual perspective and to consider for a time how the world might look through… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Certainly, I want to capture the reader's attention from the beginning and hold it until the end: that is half the purpose… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“I've read many more books than you. It doesn't matter how many you've read. I've read more. Believe me.” ― Nicola Yoon,… — Nicola Yoon Copy Share Image
Everyone knows robots write the best books and make the best music. Just look at Daft Punk. — Andy Dunn Copy Share Image
“I love the French edition with its uncut pages. I would not want a reader too lazy to use a knife on… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It would be hard to find a more influential book of Biblical studies than his Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic [1973]. — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
There are some careers where hands-on experience means so much more than the book work of it. — La La Anthony Copy Share Image
Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom — Robert S. Jepson, Jr Copy Share Image
After reading the Elon Musk book and getting a Tesla - he is at the top of my list of inspiring founders. — Michael Seibel Copy Share Image
I try to not read about myself. I think it's easier to have it out of sight and out of mind. — Vanessa Hudgens Copy Share Image
Through my writing Im gonna changing the world, just when I find special readers !! — Alyaa Copy Share Image
I'm not sure we're presenting ourselves as real role models. I don't think literature has ever been a real place for role… — Mac Barnett Copy Share Image
In my opinion, what makes a great book is something that is universally specific. — Anne Hathaway Copy Share Image
Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
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One of the author's most ancient roles is to call the community to account for its hypocrisies and bad faith. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
“Voracious reading was like an anesthesia, numbing me to the harsh life around me.” — Mark Mathabane Copy Share Image
I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book. — Gloria Swanson Copy Share Image
But all I could think of was taking some books to read in jail. I held everybody up, choosing which ones to… — John Clellon Holmes Copy Share Image
Few books today are forgivable. Black on canvas, silence on the screen, an empty white sheet of paper are perhaps feasible. — R. D. Laing Copy Share Image
“AUTHOR: Appealing to an emotion is rather irrational. THE ODIN BROTHERHOOD: True. But Odinists know the irrational can be a source of… — Mark Mirabello Copy Share Image
“It was wrong, but sometimes you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelette.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book. — Vicesimus Knox Copy Share Image
Book collecting is a largely solitary, mostly male, and completely absorbing activity. — Jacob Weisberg Copy Share Image
Literature is what you write when you think you should be saying something. Writing begins when you'd rather be doing anything else:… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
In a novel, I could submerge my ego in a characters and let his perceptions take over. — Elizabeth Moon Copy Share Image