“Love was merely a tool, smiles were another tool, they were both just tools for accomplishing certain ends. No magic, merely chemicals.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
But it doesn't stop at school. We can all enjoy books throughout our lives - as I certainly continue to do. — Charles Clarke Copy Share Image
Think books aren't scary? Well, think about this: You can't spell "Book" without "Boo! — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
“My bookcase is all yours." I walked to the door. "I've just decided that those are my favorite five words in the… — Kasie West Copy Share Image
Deconstruction glorifies the critic, humiliates the author, and makes the reader wonder why he bothered. — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I never read a book if I'm auditioning for a film based on it. I like to stick to the script only… — Sophie Nelisse Copy Share Image
I do have some theatrical background. I've written plays and seen plays and read plays. But I also read novels. One thing… — Charlie Kaufman Copy Share Image
“Book collecting is an obsession, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“It's often suggested that as a culture, we're only interested in immediate gratification. Fast food. Self-checkout. Downloadable music, movies, books. Instant coffee,… — Stephanie Perkins Copy Share Image
“(...) perfectly ordinary books, printed on commonplace paper in mundane ink. It would be a mistake to think that they weren't also… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry… — Brad Thor Copy Share Image
“The book is a rhetorical masterpiece of scientism, and it benefits from the particular kind of fear that numbers impose on nonprofessional… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I should like to freeze in time all those I do love, keep them somehow safe from the ravages of the passing… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
It used to be that readers were relegated because they considered themselves far above society, and so the metaphor of the ivory… — Alberto Manguel Copy Share Image
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking. That’s the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“They burn books now, mama.The monsters burn fucking books now, mama. They have eyes full of disappointing madness. Their tongues taste like… — Laura Gentile Copy Share Image
All of my books began as sermons, so really the heart of the message is still the same. — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
Gaylord Perry and Willie McCovey should know each other like a book. They've been ex-teammates for years now. — Jerry Coleman Copy Share Image
“Sulphurous wind gusted in his wake; the dust of the street swirled and the folds of his black coat flapped against his… — A.F. Stewart Copy Share Image
Men who tell you they read the Ann Summers catalogue for the articles are lying. — Rita Rudner Copy Share Image
When I began writing novels, I read Aristotle to learn how to perfect structure, Pearl Cleage to sustain tension, and Nora Roberts… — Stacey Abrams Copy Share Image
“A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. Samuel Clemens… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“Some things don't last forever, but some things do. Like a good song, or a good book, or a good memory you… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
“Always maintain a steady eye on what you know is yours for the taking, and plot with all the energy you can… — Chris Erzfeld Copy Share Image
“Books allow one to jump into another person's imagination while also exploring their own!” — Jen Selinsky Copy Share Image
“Did you ever wish you had a book that would explain the full meaning of life's random happenings to you?” — Mariko Tamaki Copy Share Image
Without the emotion of the beautiful, the sublime, the mysterious, there is no art, no religion, no literature. — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
The fall of the Berlin Wall did more for the progress of freedom than all of the books written by myself or… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them. — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Of all my Russian books, the defense contains and diffuses the greatest 'warmth' which may seem odd seeing how supremely abstract Chess… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I walked out of the movie "Lincoln" and bought the book [of Doris Kearns Goodwin] at the bookstore next door. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I was far away from Marathi literature, theatre, arts, everything. I was a late entrant to it. — Mahesh Manjrekar Copy Share Image
(about Kindles) I have one and I use it most nights. I always imagine the books staring and whispering, Traitor! — Robin Sloan Copy Share Image
“I have lived a thousand lives and I have loved a thousand loves. I've walked on distant worlds and seen the end… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
I used to read science fiction a lot, and I still like science fiction when it is a model of how we… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end. — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
When a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Books are great for if you want to work on the craft of writing for yourself, or, you know, to write novels… — Thomas Lennon Copy Share Image
Professed authors who overestimate their vocation are too full of themselves to be agreeable companions. The demands of their egotism are inveterate. — Henry Theodore Tuckerman Copy Share Image
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