I choose Hosea. Oh, there's no book of the Bible which more beautifully and more painfully demonstrates how very much God loves… — Jennifer Rothschild Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror: If an ass peers into it, you can't expect an apostle to look out — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
When I love a novel I've read, I want to reread it - in part, to see how it was constructed. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“Books like The Lean Startup makes it sound easy to identify a problem, solve it, and build a valuable” — Mike Fishbein Copy Share Image
“There comes a time when you have to lay the book down, stop thinking, talking and planning, and start doing.” — Karl Vaters Copy Share Image
“I'll illustrate the cover of your book for a million dollars. Wait, just let me find my crayons.” — Ederyn Khushrenada Copy Share Image
[Literature is] a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“Every book has a skeleton hidden between its covers. Your job as an analytical reader is to find it.” — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
you can give it a long name if you like, but I'm an old-fashioned woman and I call it mother-wit, and it's… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
What writers of fantasy, science fiction, and much historical fiction do for a living is different from what writers of so-called literary… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
I wonder if Karl Ove Knausgård would've written the same books today had been using Twitter. It wasn't around when he was… — Kenneth Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“Literature is literature. Its purpose is to challenge and disorient us, to break us down a little bit so that we are… — Mark Slouka Copy Share Image
Part of writing a novel is being willing to leap into the blackness. You have very little idea, really, of what's going… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share Image
I don't have my novel outlined, and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
Books woke me up. Books are my favorite man-made objects. I fetishize their design, smell, feel. And that they can contain such… — Ken Baumann Copy Share Image
“When I was his age, and even today, when it comes to books and libraries, too much is never enough” — Josh Hanagarne Copy Share Image
Not reading a beautiful book again because you've already read it, that is, as if you were not visiting a dear friend… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
In my book, that's the most important thing: loving and taking care of your family. — Teresa Giudice Copy Share Image
Sometimes I look around cable news and it's like you wonder whether you're looking at anchors or authors. — Megyn Kelly Copy Share Image
There's the one thing no nation can ever accuse us of and that is secret diplomacy. Our foreign are an open book,… — Will Rogers Copy Share Image
I develop trust, and I think it's the most important to my growth. If my restaurants are always full and my books… — Lidia Bastianich Copy Share Image
“Makikilala rin tayo sa kinds of books and other reading materials that we read. Our reading is the outward expression of our… — Ronald Molmisa Copy Share Image
You searched through all my poets, From Sappho through to Auden, I saw the book fall from your hands, As you slowly… — Nick Cave Copy Share Image
My first published novel, 'American Rust,' took three and a half years of full-time work to write. But I wrote two apprentice… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Like works of literature, mathematical ideas help expand our circle of empathy, liberating us from the tyranny of a single, parochial point… — Daniel Tammet Thinking in Numbers How Maths Illuminates Our Lives Copy Share Image
“A company author bombs from the sky like the Air Force. A self-published author wins the battle by foot.” — Judah Lee Davis Copy Share Image
Writing this book I am like a man playing the piano with lead balls attached to his knuckles. — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Usually, you don't know where a book comes from ... it's just there, some kind of an itch that you can't quite scratch. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
I kinda wanna date John Mayer just 2 find out what the deal is with him and chicks and then write a… — Jenny McCarthy Copy Share Image
I just started to put texting and phones in my books. I want my books to be read 20 years from now;… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
One is always changing. I don't want to write the same book and I couldn't, because I'm a different person. — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books. — Margaret Haddix Copy Share Image
I compose songs with a lot of simplicity because my school has been the streets, and people have been my books. — Juan Gabriel Copy Share Image
“For solace at this time of sadness and confusion, Marguerite turned to a source that would remain a refuge to her throughout… — Nancy Goldstone Copy Share Image
Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had… — Steve Spurrier Copy Share Image
Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture. — Juan Ramon Jimenez Copy Share Image
People were always hungry, bullied, afraid, paranoid - so I just thought I'd show that in the novel in a kind of… — Fred D'Aguiar Copy Share Image