People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
I do care about real life. It's just not as interesting as what's in my books. — Christina Dodd Copy Share Image
If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em! — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“And go we all must, with a healthy lust of books we trust.” — Love The Stacks Bookstore Copy Share Image
“In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
If I am feeling broken, I can pick up one of [Ivy Compton-Burnett] books and the next morning I can write again.… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“I do hope you'll forgive me if I overwhelm you with talk. When I meet somebody who's heard that books exist, I'm… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Read everything. If you haven't read everything, you'll never be able to write anything. — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Rennie didn't quite dare to answer back, but she looked a whole book and a couple of extra chapters. — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
“No matter how much wisdom is in a book, is it right to trade your life for it?” — Adam Gidwitz Copy Share Image
As a teenager, I read a lot of science-fiction, but then I read 'Catch-22' and 'The Catcher in the Rye' and started… — Jed Mercurio Copy Share Image
For me, it makes sense to address shocking experiences through poems because of the way poems also have that effect on the… — Dana Goodyear Copy Share Image
In Red Flags, Juris Jurjevics has brilliantly accomplished a feat that is becoming a major characteristic of 21st century literature: the seamless… — Robert Olen Butler Copy Share Image
The purpose of the E.U. Withdrawal Bill is in any event not to decide the terms of Brexit but to ensure that… — Dominic Grieve Copy Share Image
“One simple change – replacing news and mass media with books – can produce dramatic changes in your life. No matter what… — Martin Meadows Copy Share Image
“The disadvantage of reading aloud remained the fact that it took longer. But books read aloud also stayed long in my memory. عيب القراءة بصوتٍ عالٍ أنها تستغرق وقتاً أطول، لكن الكتب المقرؤة بصوتٍ عالٍ أيضًا تظلَّ فترة في ذاكراتي .” — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
My fellow believers, it is time to return to the Book. It is time to look to the one source that holds… — Tony Evans Copy Share Image
A hot bath, time with a book, or five minutes of meditation helps tremendously with recharging and grounding us so we are… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
“Bad things do happen to good people in this world, but it is not God who wills it. God would like people… — Harold S. Kushner Copy Share Image
I believe in three-act structure. When I say that to novel people, or people in the world of books, they go, 'Well,… — Stephen J. Cannell Copy Share Image
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