How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Your skin isn't paper, so dont cut it. Your size isn't a book, so dont judge it. Your life isn't a film,… — Idk Copy Share Image
My father gave me free run of his library. When I think of my boyhood, I think in terms of the books… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about… — Howard Gordon Copy Share Image
The 'open text' often emphasizes or foregrounds process, either the process of the original composition or of subsequent compositions by readers. — Lyn Hejinian Copy Share Image
I don't see how anybody starts a novel without knowing how it's going to end. I usually make detailed outlines: how many… — John Barth Copy Share Image
“Edgar Schein has untangled the paradox of being helpful in his excellent book Helping.” — Michael Bungay Stanier Copy Share Image
I was raised on the good book Jesus Till I read between the lines Now I don't believe I ever wanna see… — Laura Nyro Copy Share Image
“Austin cleared his throat. Given the choice between being with books or people, he'd always choose books. You could always tell what… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
“No one stepping for the first time into a room made of books can know instinctively how to behave, what is expected,… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“For his book Willpower, psychologist Roy Baumeister analyzed findings from hundreds of experiments to determine why some people can retain focus for… — Jocelyn K. Glei Copy Share Image
Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The theme that runs through all my books is connection. Connection - physical and non-physical - with other humans, and connection with… — Mary Alice Monroe Copy Share Image
“But see, that's the thing about movies. Nothing is left to the imagination. You read a book, and you see a picture… — Laurie Viera Rigler Copy Share Image
“After travelling a few miles, he fell asleep; and Emily, who had put two or three books into the carriage, on leaving… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
“We did photograph albums, best dresses, favourite novels, and once someone's own novel. It was about a week in a telephone box… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I could appear in this million-word book [Larry Kramer] are working on. Nobody would even notice me. — Kevin Sessums Copy Share Image
I am almost six-novels-old. It took me until the third novel to call myself a writer. — Manju Kapur Copy Share Image
It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I learned to read at two. I was in a Montessori school and they teach you to read really, really young. — Dakota Fanning Copy Share Image
“Any writer who waits for inspiration to strike will never finish a book. Inspiration is all very well but it will never… — Barbara Michaels Copy Share Image
“The sharing of a book is a statement—a message of affection that is also an act of self-revelation. Join my club, it… — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
I am not a book collector, and I am not fussy about particular editions. As long as the words are there I… — Adam Foulds Copy Share Image
“All events/actions create a potential energy that rotate around the doer until releases or neutralized. (From Circles of Reasoning book)” — Reza Assadi Copy Share Image
All readers come to fiction as willing accomplices to your lies. Such is the basic goodwill contract made the moment we pick… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
The Internet is the world's largest library. It's just that all the books are on the floor. — John Allen Paulos Copy Share Image
“If I had a book like "How to Talk to Anyone" this one... with the (Junior Talker) series... my life could have… — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
“Although the Bible is a living book, it will not jump into your palms pleading, "Read me please". You've to make a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
His eyes gravitated towards the wall-to-wall bookshelf at one end of the room. 'You folks like books, I see. — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
I really began to love to read while in high school, and my favorite authors were my heroes: J.D. Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut. — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
“If a boy can manage to have coffee with me during the apocalypse, I know he cares. There’s not a speck of… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
Goodnight world. While I sleep, I hope you'll all continue to do whatever it is you do. Unless you murder sleeping authors.… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Teacher : Please go to page 364 in your text book. Random kid in the back : OMG I JUST FLIPPED RIGHT… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I read a bit of Ray Bradbury when I was a younger man. I don't read a lot of fiction anymore... like,… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
A bibliomaniac is one to whom books are like bottles of whiskey to the inebriate, to whom anything that is between covers… — Hugh Walpole Copy Share Image
I think I've finally learned to stop worrying about how big the gaps are between my novels' publication. — Justine Larbalestier Copy Share Image
The same is true of ranking him thus against any work of literature. [Bob Dylan] has been made, through no fault of… — David Bennun Copy Share Image
“Literature has been our salvation, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.” — John Cheever Copy Share Image
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“A good reader should always have two books with him: one to read, the other one to lend.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image