Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Kids don't even read comic books anymore. They've got more important things to do - like video games. — Ang Lee Copy Share Image
“Life would be a lot easier if conversations were rewindable and erasable, like videos.” — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
I found d perfect example for Newton's3rd law. Every time I open my book My eyes close automatically. NEWTON IS Great. — Azgraybebly Joslan Copy Share Image
“You need not to burn copies of a book. Just make people feel indifferent to the book.” — Lara Biyuts Copy Share Image
I love surprises! That's what is great about reading. When you open a book, you never know what you'll find. — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea. — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
“Parental teaching is a natural duty--who so fit to look to the child's well being as those who are the authors of… — Charles H. Spurgeon Copy Share Image
“Writing your book is not the end all of your strategy. It is a powerful catalyst that will push you to the… — Kytka Hilmar-Jezek Copy Share Image
“background-research process, which combines exposure to potentially relevant material with free-form re-combination of ideas, comes straight out of Steven Johnson’s book, Where… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
“There is a class whose value I should designate as Favorites: such as Froissart's Chronicles; Southey's Chronicle of the Cid ; Cervantes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Gro Rollag was no beauty, but she was a strong capable young woman with a long face, prominent cheekbones, high forehead, and… — David Laskin Copy Share Image
I think all writers of my age who are brought up on films probably by the age of 16 have seen many… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The Bible became the book of books, but it is not one document. It is a mystical library of interwoven texts by… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every person in the world should have the right to learn to read and go to school. It's our responsibility, as global… — Marie Bradby Copy Share Image
I don't write toward a genre, and I try not to make claim to a genre after a book is published. That… — Sarah Manguso Copy Share Image
As a young girl, I was very proud at overcoming a reading handicap whilst other girls of my age read abundantly. — Coco Chanel Copy Share Image
I will literally read anything, regardless of genre, fiction or non-fiction, as long as it's well written. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“You know him reader, that refined monster, – Hypocritish reader, – my fellow, – my brother !” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held. — Richard Cohen Copy Share Image
“Each book was like an underwater cave, and when I rose again to the surface, I was pale and grumpy, resentful of… — Mary Stewart Atwell Copy Share Image
I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
What follows is more about books than it is about me, but nonetheless it is my inward autobiography, for the words we… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
I've got an original graphic novel called 'The Indian and the Bandit' that I'm writing with a childhood friend. — Michael McMillian Copy Share Image
The final and full revelation of God is not a book, it is a person. Jesus Christ. — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
You do not question an author who appears on the title page as "T.V.N. Persaud, M.D., Ph.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.Path. (Lond.), F.F.Path. (R.C.P.I.),… — Mary Roach Copy Share Image
Great books are weighed and measured by their style and matter and not by the trimmings and shadings of their grammer. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you want to communicate with the American public, the literature tells you you've got to be talking at about a sixth-grade,… — Richard Carmona Copy Share Image
“Libraries are always bigger on the inside because every book has an entire word inside of it.” — Robert Arger Copy Share Image
“Minimalism is like the prologue of a book; the stories to follow can only be created by the individual.” — Fumio Sasaki Copy Share Image
All my books come out of sermons, and I'm really a pastor who writes rather than a writer who pastors. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
I am an open book, literally. I don't mind if people know way too much about me. — Lisa Scottoline Copy Share Image
I'm a little bit of a news political junkie, a little bit of a reader of history. — David Mandel Copy Share Image
“What is meant to be heard is necessarily more direct in expression, and perhaps more boldly coloured, than what is meant for… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
If you carry a paperback book in your back pocket, but spend more time on your hair than you do reading it,… — Dov Davidoff Copy Share Image
Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between… — Leslie Fiedler Copy Share Image
The sight of parents, children and grandparents all descending on a tented field to enjoy the pleasure of ideas and books renews… — Mariella Frostrup Copy Share Image
I keep to a minimum dialect, in-jokes about football (soccer) teams and soap opera characters, so as not to lose North American… — Peter Robinson Copy Share Image
When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
