I'm from a family of educators. I grew up with books in my house and in my hands and my parents in… — Vic Mensa Copy Share Image
There's so much stuff being written! Every year, how many books come out? I can't keep up, and I read a lot.… — Victoria Chang Copy Share Image
Meeting authors is kind of the death of the characters. That is always heartbreaking. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“See, that's the beauty of books. We get to take what we want out of them and it can be different for… — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“The lay reader only wanted to have the illusion of understanding and to catch a few buzzwords to throw around at cocktail… — Richard Feynman Copy Share Image
Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“First of all, ideas aren’t the hard part. Secondly, there are no new ideas, only the author’s unique execution.” — Josh Lanyon Copy Share Image
Make careful choice of the books which you read: let the holy Scriptures ever have the preeminence. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
The book the Ziff folks sent me as an example of their art was 'Late Night VRML 2.0 with Java,' 700 pages… — Philip Greenspun Copy Share Image
“I got no idea wht a writer of a book should have respect. Or even get the time of day, unless he's… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths… — Denzel Washington Copy Share Image
“The half-brained creature to whom books are other than living things may see with the eyes of a bat and draw with… — Algernon Charles Swinburne Copy Share Image
The Bible is a book that has shaped my life, my beliefs, my ethics, my moral concerns, my religious outlook. This is… — Hershel Shanks Copy Share Image
My next book is also set in the eighteenth century. Its about the Revolution, with the focus on the year 1776. Its… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
As far as I know, Clifford Pickover is the first mathematician to write a book about areas where math and theology overlap.… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
Reading is one of the most individual things that happens. So every reader is going to read a piece in a slightly… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Representative institutions are as much a part of the true Briton as his language and his literature. — Annie Besant Copy Share Image
“To stop us reading forbidden books they will have to burn every manuscript. But to stop us thinking forbidden thoughts they will… — Philippa Gregory Copy Share Image
I knew I'd have to go to work in real estate or something else or I could never finish my novel. — Judith Rossner Copy Share Image
We used to say a movie could never come close to a book, but no one reads books anymore. — Rose Troche Copy Share Image
I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
Just because you started off one way don't mean the ending of the book has to be the way you started. — Bernard Hopkins Copy Share Image
When I am so intensely involved with writing my books, I don't like to reread them. I feel like that story is… — Michael Connelly Copy Share Image
“It's red hot, mate. I hate to think of this sort of book getting in the wrong hands. As soon as I've… — Tony Hancock Copy Share Image
“When you let Soul drive the bus, life flows more effortlessly. -- From the book, Doing a 360, page 8” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Love's stories written in love's richest books. To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“I'm purely a popular writer, with no axe to grind apart from writing a good read' for entertainment and relaxation.” — Mary Howard Copy Share Image
As soon as I'm finished with it, it feels like an impersonal project. Like, "Well, I did another book." — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
But I've been at writing long enough now to know that every three or four books I have to start a new… — Daniel Woodrell Copy Share Image
'The Disaster Artist' book is the peak of my career in many ways, but there's something so rewarding about creating something from… — Greg Sestero Copy Share Image
I'm not the fastest reader or writer but occasionally I'll write things down just so I don't forget them. — Thighpaulsandra Copy Share Image
I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture,… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
Lazy poets try to elicit a reader's response with words designed to tug at the heart. — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
Nothing ought to be more weighed than the nature of books recommended by public authority. So recommended, they soon form the character… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
The hazard of confessional books is how fast the world moves on while they're written. — Tina Brown Copy Share Image
Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book. — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
“The lights burn bright for those who obey; the others will live in shadow all the days of their lives (The Book… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
I want to write a script, but before that, I am planning to compile a book of short stories. — Mouni Roy Copy Share Image
“Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.” — Nick Lake Copy Share Image
