Scarcity is a captivating book, overflowing with new ideas, fantastic stories, and simple suggestions that just might change the way you live. — Steven Levitt Copy Share Image
No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel… — Sylvia Brownrigg Copy Share Image
With books, as with companions, it is of more consequence to know which to avoid, than which to choose; for good books… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Something just happens when you read a part. You know, if you'd like to do it or if you don't believe it. — Sharon Gless Copy Share Image
Getting the book published and the movie made was not an easy task. But it helped. Because even though it's a difficult… — Molly Bloom Copy Share Image
“When you're in love, you want to tell the world. This book is a personal statement, reflecting my lifelong love affair with… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Religion is dogmatic. Politic is ideological. Reason must be logical, but literature has a privilege of being equivocal. — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me;… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
Talk about a woman of a certain age - Pearl Buck was a great prototype of continuing to work. She was in… — Valerie Harper Copy Share Image
My own novel, 'The Silver Bough,' about the inhabitants of a remote town at risk of being overwhelmed by Scotland's mythological past,… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
“And they didn't even read; depressed populations don't have the time or energy to spare. The affluent populations, which should have been… — James Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I always had to buy a book, even if I wasn't done with the one I was currently reading. I loved to… — Aaron Patterson Copy Share Image
“Even if you are not actively mourning a loved one right now, you bought my book for a reason, and I don’t… — Theresa Caputo Copy Share Image
The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
I like the idea of standalone novels. I always found with series of books, it's something that publishers love obviously because they… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
What excites me about picture books is the gap between pictures and words. Sometimes the pictures can tell a slightly different story… — Anthony Browne Copy Share Image
I really believe we read differently when we know even the most banal facts of an author's life. — Anne Michaels Copy Share Image
“What better place to kill time than a library? And for me, what better way to get to know someone than through… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
All the creativity books in the world aren’t going to help you if you’re unwilling to have lousy, lame, and even dangerously… — Seth Godin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the book’s greatest weakness is its romantic depiction of President Kennedy as a kind of knight in shining armor.” — Theodore H. White Copy Share Image
“What wild desires, what restless torments seize The hapless man, who feels the book-disease..." -” — John Ferriar Copy Share Image
“There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers - as many different responses as there are readers.” — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I want to see children curled up with books, finding an awareness of themselves as they discover other people's thoughts.” — Patricia Reilly Giff Copy Share Image
Humor is the oxygen of children's literature. There's a lot of competition for children's time, but even kids who hate to read… — Sid Fleischman Copy Share Image
“I recommend Richard Dawkins’s and E. O. Wilson’s books on evolution. If I had to pick just one, it would be Dawkins’s… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
Christianity is based on a book. It centers in a Person. It expresses itself in a message. It authenticates itself in an… — J. Sidlow Baxter Copy Share Image
I met Barack Obama, I read his book, I like him a great deal. I disagree with him on very fundamental issues. — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
In his 1930 book, Dirac took for granted that measurements could be made, but was very vague about what was actually involved. — Willis Lamb Copy Share Image
'The Turnaround' isn't even really a crime novel. But you need conflict to make a novel, any kind of novel, and I… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
I play basketball, I surf and swim and go to the cinema and listen to music and read. I like shopping. — Saoirse Ronan Copy Share Image
Some of us fall & some of us fly, but in the end of the book daddy all of us die. — Styles P Copy Share Image
You want to publish with a publisher because a publisher knows how to publish a book. And you don't. You really don't. — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Just the circumstances of being in D.C., people give you books, and there are issues you want to learn more about, so… — Mike Quigley Copy Share Image
For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire… — Betsy Byars Copy Share Image
Failure Is A Single Paper In A Part Of Life. But Success Is A Book Of Your Own Biography.. Don't Loose A… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Frazzled and delirious, as I've just finished a new book of stories. I feel like Moses staggering down the mountainside with the… — Kevin Barry Copy Share Image
I resisted children's writing for a long time. I saw myself as a writer of literary fiction. But I had so much… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law. — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
