“Many of the greatest books are like a forest. “The best way to get to know them is to wander right into… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
My publicist actually told me about the book. She's half-Indian, half-Dutch, and she was like, 'You've got to do this book. It's… — Jimmy O. Yang Copy Share Image
“I stared into her cold, blue eyes and knew I'd just met the kind of girl books are written about. There was… — Tarryn Fisher Copy Share Image
Do not, under any circumstances, put this book down and turn on the teevee. The teevee debilitates our culture. — Inga Muscio Copy Share Image
I think reading has got so many more enemies now that graphic novels have kind of flipped over to that side. — Gene Luen Yang Copy Share Image
“Around nine thirty, but Natalie was still reading a book on her Kindle when I fell asleep thirty minutes later.” — T.R. Ragan Copy Share Image
One of the great upsides to a national book tour is the chance to break out of television's cocoon and interact directly… — Oliver North Copy Share Image
It wasn't a good idea to work on 'Naked' in the first months of a marriage. I was living apart from my… — David Thewlis Copy Share Image
In a sense I am able to interrogate myself, address myself from that slight distance and enter a kind of dialogical relationship… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Of all the things that the digital revolution has produced, once of the coolest, simplest ones is you can now contact people… — Stephen J. Dubner Copy Share Image
The book is called 'Thanks for Nothing' and it's really the story of how I got into comedy and traces back every… — Jack Dee Copy Share Image
Not only do I recommend Wendell Berry to anyone who will talk to me for more than seven seconds, but I buy… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
The true poem is not that which the public read. There is always a poem not printed on paper,... in the poet's… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The more messy women that we put on screen, that we put in books, the more women can feel represented and seen,… — Krysten Ritter Copy Share Image
If conversation be an art, like painting, sculpture, and literature, it owes its most power charm to nature; and the least shade… — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
Literature is an investment of genius which pays dividends to all subsequent times. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
I got a dog and am trying to elevate. I'm working out, eating healthier, reading books. Making 'Make it Out Alive' is… — Brent Faiyaz Copy Share Image
We men of study, whose heads are in our books, have need to be straightly looked after! We dream in our waking… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“But books feel real. Surely they must seem more real to you than anyone. They can hurt you. They can break your… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
All of my books deal in a very rough, rude fashion with subjects about which there are great conflicts of opinion. — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
“Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'd rather read than watch a movie. It gives me new ways to approach my delivery, gives me a new vocabulary. — Rich Homie Quan Copy Share Image
“As soon as I take down her book and open it...My skies rise higher and hang younger stars.” — Eavan Boland Copy Share Image
In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me! — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
This was but a prelude; where books are burnt human-beings will be burnt in the end — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
BTW A 24 week old embryo is not a human being. You're not a human being until you're in my phone book. — Bill Hicks Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, it will help ensure that more of what you like to read will be written. Thank you.” — Dana Stabenow Copy Share Image
“True life life at last discovered and illuminated the only life therefore really lived that life is literature.” — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Books are better friends than people at times. They do not threaten you, unless that feeling means you're anticipating the next event. — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
I like detective stories and spy novels, but I also like nonfiction, and of course cookbooks. — Paul Wahlberg Copy Share Image
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
“Grabbed my duffel, my toothbrush, and a signed copy of my favorite book. Just the essentials.” — C.M. Stunich Copy Share Image
“Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is… — Edmond Jabes Copy Share Image
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I have been writing for 50 years and readers still read my first book from when I was in the Marine Corps. — Leon Uris Copy Share Image
Literature wasn't intended to be about perfect people, it was about flaws, very real and very deep human flaws. — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
Readers regularly ask what can go wrong but almost never what could positively surprise. — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
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