“He calls books freedoms. And homes too. They preserve all the good words that we so seldom use.” — Nina George Copy Share Image
“A book is a magical thing that lets you travel to far away places without ever leaving your chair.” — Katrina Mayer Copy Share Image
“The habit of questioning authority is one of the most valuable gifts that a book, or a teacher, can give a young… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There must be a secret hidden in this book or else you wouldn't bother to read it — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
“Individuals who frequently read fiction seem to be better able to understand other people, empathize with them and see the world from… — Annie Murphy Paul Copy Share Image
Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
No man living in a world as interesting as this ever writes a book if he can help it. — Gerald Stanley Lee Copy Share Image
Brexit was meant to be about taking back control, we are ceding control; it was meant to be about trade deals, we… — Jo Johnson Copy Share Image
[My first children's book] is very subliminal, let's put it that way. It even has a bit of a metaphysical little message… — Gloria Estefan Copy Share Image
John Green has written a powerful novel—one that plunges headlong into the labyrinth of life, love, and the mysteries of being human.… — KL Going Copy Share Image
“I had a queer time with Aunt today, and, as I got the best of it, I'll tell you about it," began… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Che was a revolutionary, doctor, author, leader and a global symbol. Growing up in the Sixties, his poster, alongside Jimi Hendrix, would… — David Essex Copy Share Image
Glen Hirshberg's stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content -- the stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they… — Aimee Bender Copy Share Image
“I felt overwhelmed. I didn’t expect a first kiss to be so…life altering. In a few brief moments, the rule book of… — Colleen Houck Copy Share Image
Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The book is a dialogue between The Dalai Lama and a group of scientists about how we can better handle our destructive… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Fresh than a motherfucker I knew what it took. The thing that I'm giving you couldn't get out a book. — Big Krit Copy Share Image
I was reading everything under the sun from music history to feminist literature to Shakespeare, which is why I'm not a complete… — Emilie Autumn Copy Share Image
Americans spend more on beer than they do on books. No wonder their stomachs are bigger than their brains. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
There is a technical term for someone who confuses the opinions of a character in a book with those of the author.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“expository writing, the goal of which is to persuade or provide information to the reader. A” — Charles M. Fox Copy Share Image
“You are the first of your kind. Books will be written about you. Be the legend you are meant to be. -… — Candace Knoebel Copy Share Image
Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
Liberals decided it's much better not to play outraged with me anymore. I sell lots of books that way. — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
“Cited by the author of 'Lucky Jim' as one of the most dismal depressing questions in the English language: "Shall we go… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Lectures were once useful; but now when all can read, and books are so numerous, lectures are unnecessary. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Isn't it true that many students do more of facebook than facing their book? You can never cook stones and expect meat. — Abegunde Sunday O Copy Share Image
It is written in the Jewish law book, the Talmud, that only the Jew is human, that Gentiles are only animals. — Julius Streicher Copy Share Image
“Do you read them? Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald?" "Only if I have to. I try to avoid old dead white men.” — John Grisham Copy Share Image
The most important function of a bibliographic entry is to help the reader obtain a copy of the cited work. — Daniel J. Bernstein Copy Share Image
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
There will be great books. There will be great films. Sometimes, if we are lucky, the two will intersect. — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Literature is that which denounces and slashes apart the repressing machine at the level of the signified. — Kathy Acker Copy Share Image
An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Every act of becoming conscious (it says here in this book) is an unnatural act” — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
If you read angry political blogs, substitute Obama with my daddy and you'll usually learn a lot about the author. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
“Songs are just novels that get to the point quicker. Though I don't imagine that Ke$ha's book would be clean YA...” — Inda Herwood Copy Share Image
I am very scared at the beginning of each book, because I've never written it before. I feel I have to teach… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and… — Swami Achuthananda Copy Share Image