“A history of literature, unlike history as such, ought to list only victories, for its defeats are no victory for anyone.” — Julien Gracq Copy Share Image
“When it comes to improving your life, reading the right book has an incalculable influence.” — DaManIAm Copy Share Image
“My favorite smells are freshly baked bread, the pages of an old book, and they way my boss’ ass smells when he’s… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students… — Frances Osborne Copy Share Image
Moreover, a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“All world believers of righteousness are required to pladge allegiance to Allah!” — Compton Gage Copy Share Image
I aspired from early on to write a novel, to be in the 'New Yorker,' to be on Broadway, and at least… — Mark O'Donnell Copy Share Image
Like books you will never have the chance to read, there are languages you do not know, and you're not going to… — James Salter Copy Share Image
“I write because it’s a way of puzzling out answers to situations in the world that I don’t understand. The act of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I know perfectly well that it is impossible, according to arithmetic and scholarly books, to live in a far valley off a… — Halldór Laxness Copy Share Image
“Do you know why books such as this are so important? Because they have quality. And what does the word quality mean?… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Denis Waitley, the author of The Psychology of Winning and The Joy of Working, who defines procrastination as “a neurotic form of… — Neil A. Fiore Copy Share Image
I began this book with the intention of concealing nothing, that those who liked might have the benefit of perusing a fellow… — Anne Bronte Copy Share Image
“The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the… — David Lodge Copy Share Image
“The yoga system described in the books of Patañjali is authoritative, and the modern so-called yogīs who have manufactured their own ways,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I… — Leonard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Happy be the reader plunged into her book who forgot the world and whom world forgot.” — Gabrielle Dubois Copy Share Image
I have done what people do, my life makes a reasonable showing. Can I go back to my books now? — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
I never talk about books in progress. I could decide to change it to a series of seafood recipes, after all. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“No book worth reading ever fails to be steeped with the spirit of the person who wrote it.” — Paul Leicester Ford Copy Share Image
When you start reading nonfiction books about piracy, you realize that it's actually just a history of desperate people. — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
To have her meals, and her daily walk, and her fill of novels, and to be left alone, was all that she… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
“Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream” — LaQuita Cameron Copy Share Image
“At least in a book I am away from my body for a while. But I want to do things, not just… — Jackie French Copy Share Image
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Be yourself and your readers will follow you anywhere. Try to commit an act of writing and they will jump overboard to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before. — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
As a man may be eating all day, and for want of digestion is never nourished, so these endless readers may cram… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The book and the film [This Changes Everything] fed into each other in ways that were compounding and very exciting. The pain… — Avi Lewis Copy Share Image
“It seemed to me then that to have published a book - any kind of book - would be the greatest possible… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
I just know I'm too much of a wuss for Stephen King's books. I'm way too chicken to read horror. — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“To me it was the ultimate book: once you read it, neither your own life nor the world you lived in would… — Dai Sijie Copy Share Image
After a while, you start to realize that you should write a book you would want to read. I try to write… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“By reading holy literature as if it were a dream, we gain access to a primary mode of our collective unconscious.” — Lawrence Kushner Copy Share Image
I'm so glad that social media gives me a chance to do that, to celebrate books I love and help proselytize for… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“loathe collectible books anyway. People getting all moony over particular paper carcasses. It’s the ideas that matter, man.” — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
The press is the exclusive literature of the million; to them it is literature, church, and college. — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
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