The ideas get under your skin. I am honored and deeply excited by the thought that the next generation of writers, or… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Let none turn over books or scan the stars in quest of God who see Him not in man. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
I conclude now I have no inner resources, because I am heavy bored. Peoples bore me, literature bores me, especially great literature, — John Berryman Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I haven't told why I wrote the book, but I haven't told you why I sneeze, either. A book is a sneeze.” — E.B. White Copy Share Image
I wish you could read people's feelings as easily as you can read a book. then you know whether your wasting your… — Sarah Moores Copy Share Image
America is a great disappointment to me. As I said in one of my books, other societies create civilisations; we build shopping… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Kevin Nash came to me; he goes, 'Book, hey, Book, man, you know, this nWo thing is getting real hot, bro. And,… — Booker T Copy Share Image
I went through a phase in my 20s when I was overdosing on self-help books, so it was really refreshing to read… — Tamzin Outhwaite Copy Share Image
I'm far more often annoyed than delighted by previous readers' marks in used books, so I assume that my notations will be… — J. Robert Lennon Copy Share Image
writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“I walked around the library looking for books. I pulled them off the shelves, one by one. But they were all tricks.… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Choosing which book isn't difficult. The choice is typically the last one I brought home. I acquire books constantly and place them… — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
Are there books about us or something?” This makes Pressia angry - the idea that this world is a subject of study,… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
When I'm working on one book, part of my imagination is thinking ahead to the next one. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“I am quite happy for people to disagree with me on a book. If I say it is a 5 star read… — Michael Edwards Copy Share Image
I got expelled from the public library for putting all the 'Women's Rights' books in the fiction section. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books. — Edmund White Copy Share Image
With no reason to hide these words I feel, and no reason to talk about the books I read, but still, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a good collection of cookery books. This is not so much because I like cooking, but because I like eating. — Louise Brown Copy Share Image
The deepest quality of a work of art will always be the quality of the mind of the producer...No good novel will… — Henry James Copy Share Image
How in the name of Merlin's pants have you managed to get your hands on those Horcrux books? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“I want to buy me a hat with a golden feather & a book with the confessions of God in it” — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
If you want to help arm the schools, arm them with school supplies, books, therapists - things they actually need and can… — Emma Gonzalez Copy Share Image
Your vacation depends upon the book that tells you where to go, and it is called your cheque book. — Vikrant Parsai Copy Share Image
I like to read away as much of the afternoon as possible, until real life rears its ugly head. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
You will always see big, chunky bags around me. I have always been fond of bags. Bags are extremely essential because I… — Yami Gautam Copy Share Image
“What can a man read in a library of cannibals? Bloody books bound by bones in tissues’ paper.” — Stephan Attia Copy Share Image
We are now in want of an art to teach how books are to be read rather than to read them. Such… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I'd go somewhere where no one spoke. I would take a stack of books up to my hips, and I'd read nonstop.… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
“Chapter one is where you reach out your hand to the reader and say, "Come, let's have an adventure together.” — Tenaya Jayne Copy Share Image
“Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.” — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
As writers become more numerous, it is natural for readers to become more indolent. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
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“If you can't write a book, write a chapter. If you can't do that, write a page, a sentence or a word.… — Tarun Betala Copy Share Image
As we expand our knowledge of good books, we shrink the circle of men whose company we appreciate. — Ludwig Feuerbach Copy Share Image
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