While a book has got to be worthwhile from the point of view of the reader it's got to be worthwhile from… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Childrens books change lives. Stories pour into the hearts of children and help make them what they become. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than your own. — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“I am failed for some subject in exam But my friend passed in all , Now he is a college students And… — Meet Chauhan Copy Share Image
In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar. — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
The more you read, the more you want to know, and so the more questions you have. — Xinran Copy Share Image
In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
I do readings at the public library. I just did a benefit scene night for my old acting teacher. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
“Equiano, one of the luckiest among them, acquired an education, freed himself, and wrote a book in 1789: The Interesting Narrative of… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Focus on the mind and the soul. Read. Study. Enrol in a course of lectures. Pray. Become a member of a religious… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“I looked over Emma’s shoulder. I recognized the girls in the photos. I understood we used to be close. But they were… — Sarah Shepard Copy Share Image
“And all the while I have people telling me, at least you still have something of your husband . Do they mean… — Marie Brennan Copy Share Image
“this art wasn’t exactly a novelty for him, and he shyly observed that, having nowhere to go and nothing to do, nor… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I make up the characters in my books, but of course my consciousness is filled with every child I've ever known, including… — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
“If a book cover has raised lettering, metallic lettering, or raised metallic lettering, then it is telling the reader: Hello. I am… — Paul Collins Copy Share Image
When a book is alive, really alive, you feel it. You put it to your ear here, and you feel it breathe,… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Psychologists and psychiatrists send me cards and say, 'Hey, I love your books.' — Joe R. Lansdale Copy Share Image
Each piece of jewellery tells a story of my life. Picking one particular piece as a favorite would be like taking a… — Erin Wasson Copy Share Image
“I have to agree that most people in America read a kind of a fiction which is not of a high literary… — Walter Mosley Copy Share Image
Only another writer can know how much damage writing a novel can do to you. It's an unnatural activity to sit at… — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
The first sentence of every novel should be: Trust me, this will take time but there is order here, very faint, very… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
The human race doesn't need more books telling them what to do. They need the power to do what they already know. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Of all people in the world the English have the least sense of the beauty of literature.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn… — John Donne Copy Share Image
They offered me millions and millions and millions of dollars to write books about Cary. That was between us. That was private.… — Dyan Cannon Copy Share Image
I detest literature. I abominate the theatre. I have a horror of culture. I am only interested in magic! — John Lahr Copy Share Image
“Speed Reader: Nothing more than… "Getting knowledge in a fast way". (Note: What's that?)” — Deyth Banger Copy Share Image
When I was about ten, I discovered evolution by reading a book by Wilhelm Boelsche and seeing a picture of Archaeopteryx. — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“We can ignore reality, but we cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“Books, I read them for one reason and one reason only so that I can appear more educated than I actually am.” — Ken Scott Copy Share Image
“There are only one or two repeats in the whole book. So that got me thinking polyalphabetic substitution.” — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
A book… it’s a world all on its own too. A world made of words, where you live for a while. — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“When people read his books they have an uncontrollable desire to hang the author in the town square. I can‚Äôt think of… — Roberto Bola√±o Copy Share Image
I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
Our life is a book to which we add daily, until suddenly we are finished, and then the manuscript is burned. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only when a book is written out of passion is there much hope of its being read with passion.” — Jean Fritz Copy Share Image
What we need in literature today are vast philosophic horizons... we need the most ultimate, the most fearsome, the most fearless "Why?"… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class - contemporary literature is what's most… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
I'm not into older guys. To tell you the truth, Richard Gere is not the sexiest man alive, in my book. — Winona Ryder Copy Share Image
