Books and music saved me as a teenager because it was through them that I realized that I wasn't alone in my… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Suppose you were to read an entire book each week for the next seventy years. You would read 3,640 books.” — Joe J. Christensen Copy Share Image
The fans of 'The Hunger Games,' of the book, are very passionate. It's funny: Even at my concerts there are people holding… — Lenny Kravitz Copy Share Image
When I was young, I kept a book about my performances. It was easier then, because I was not so very busy. — Mirella Freni Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I ate sports books up, like "Winners Never Quit" by Phil Pepe. That was like my bible. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Technological prescience in science fiction usually requires an author with luck. Societal prescience requires a poet. — Heidi Hammel Copy Share Image
I've always thought that a good book should be either the entry point inward, to learn about yourself, or a door outward,… — Taylor Jenkins Reid Copy Share Image
“I had been opposed to the practice of dedicating books; I had held that a book is addressed to any reader who… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“When Molly O'Toole was looking at the colored pictures in Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's big dictionary and just happened to be eating a candy… — Betty MacDonald Copy Share Image
Over the past fifty years or so, scientists have allowed the conventions of expression available to them to become entirely too confining,… — David Mermin Copy Share Image
Once upon a time, there was a boy who learned to read at the age of 5. This changed his life. Owing… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Yoga is the rule book for playing the game of Life, but in this game no one needs to lose. It is… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Restoration I did because I really loved e novel and I like Michael Hoffman, who directed it, but it wasn't a really… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
Your life is like a book. The title page is your name, the preface your introductions to the world. The pages are… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
All summer, I read fiction because you must read for the pleasure and beauty of it, and not only for research. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“To unlock the heavy outer door and to walk into the hushed interior, with the morning light spilling from the high windows… — Sue Townsend Copy Share Image
“Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Life is too difficult to make me bear with it all, I prefer mostly to stay in the books.” — Roab Woody Copy Share Image
Read Churchill, he tells you how crucial was the Greek role in your decisive desert victory over Rommel. — Melina Mercouri Copy Share Image
People who read are people who dream, and we connect through the stories we live and tell and read. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
I like books. I've always got a literature book going. I'd be in there reading, in my off time. — Samuel L. Jackson Copy Share Image
You may not control life's circumstances, but getting to be the author of your life means getting to control what you do… — Atul Gawande Copy Share Image
As I've gotten older I've become a devotee of 19th-century authors, such as Charles Dickens and George Eliot. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
“My experience with public libraries is that the first volume of the book I inquire for is out, unless I happen to… — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr Copy Share Image
I've written only two novels, but they're both long ones, and they each took a decade to write. — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
It is no use describing a house; the reader will fix the scene in some spot he knows himself. — J. Milton Hayes Copy Share Image
If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
The Book of Revelation is a description of one path to the New Jerusalem, but this scenario is not inevitable. — Barbara Marx Hubbard Copy Share Image
A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It’s a fair-sized job to write a book that people can be bothered just to read; when they begin to steal copies,… — Ruth Stout Copy Share Image
I'm hoping the reader can see that artificial intelligence is better understood as a belief system instead of a technology. — Jaron Lanier Copy Share Image
Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Here we are in the century of information, that is to say the unformed. Every kind of literature will be journalistic, with… — Julien Torma Copy Share Image
Books are only the shadow and life the real thing. I believe this as strongly as any belief I hold. — Esther Forbes Copy Share Image
I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A book may be very amusing with numerous errors, or it may be very dull without a single absurdity. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“She dreamed of a world where books did not rot or give way to green blot, where words and ideas were not… — Frances Hardinge Copy Share Image
