In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
Nothing that readers say or do strikes me as a nuisance. Anyone who cracks open a book of mine is, to me,… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The first book advance I got was paid out in thirds. And over time, as I've had different deals, the advances get… — Franklin Foer Copy Share Image
Politics are vulgar when they are not liberalised by history, and history fades into mere literature when it loses sight of its… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
“It’s remarkable that a device, which fits in your pocket, can hold thousands of books. But a room full of books is… — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
...how odd to think of one's life not as chapters in a book but as complete volumes, separate and distinct. — Jim Fergus Copy Share Image
You should always have 2 books...the one you're reading and the one you're writing. — Sterling W Sill Copy Share Image
A book of poems doesn't just come out by chance, an editor has to select it, a publisher has to distribute it… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
“Personally, I like books that make you think – books you’re still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Philosophy is written in that great book which ever lies before our eyes — I mean the universe — but we cannot… — Galileo Galilei Copy Share Image
“Before I grad her book and mine, I go sit next to her on the organ bench and she gives me a… — Kirstin Cronn-Mills Copy Share Image
“I suspect that I’m not alone when it comes to altering my surroundings depending on how I feel at any particular moment:… — Barbara Brooke Copy Share Image
When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I'm the farthest thing from a bibliophile. I purge my collection regularly: If I haven't read a book in a couple of… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I think there are so many books out there written on relationships and romance that women are the authors of. How can… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
“How are you? Did you ever go to Brazil? What do you eat in a day? Are you off the pills? Did… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
You wanna fight you do it on your own time, in a parking lot somewhere, not in a school, surrounded by books. — Danny Mcbride Copy Share Image
In my early years I read very hard. It is a sad reflection, but a true one, that I knew almost as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Whatever truths or fables you may find in a thousand books, it is all a tower of Babel unless love holds it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I hope people who read my books feel empathy for us and really see us as complicated people. — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I know that it is not enough to be remembered for books and theories. One does not make a difference unless it… — Joseph A. Schumpeter Copy Share Image
Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how… — Lauren Willig Copy Share Image
“And then he did move, because my hardcover copy of Breaking Dawn whacked him full in the face, with all my vampiric… — Helen Keeble Copy Share Image
I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have written... have really in… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
For me, I just stuck to school. I thought you can't be bullied and dumb, so books and I will be friends. — Yvonne Orji Copy Share Image
Look, I like to fantasize that there's more to reality than what we have here, and that's why, from a young age,… — Don Coscarelli Copy Share Image
I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
We’re all in the end-of-our-life book club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last,… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
“A well-stocked, well-staffed library is like a gardener who plants books, knowledge, and dreams and grows readers, learners, and do-ers.” — Laura Purdie Salas Copy Share Image
It sounds boring, but anything is easy to start-starting a novel, starting a business ... it's keeping the thing going that is difficult. — Prue Leith Copy Share Image
“e-reader (i.e., a portable replacement for physical books), this is the go-to, standard-setting device." - Engadget” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting… — Peter Dinklage Copy Share Image
Robert Louis Stevenson... I'm focusing on the late short stories that I was ignorant of. I always thought he was a boys'… — Jane Birkin Copy Share Image
I was 16 when I started playing. I borrowed a friend's acoustic guitar, and I had a Beatles chord book. I just… — Britt Daniel Copy Share Image
The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer. — Vartan Gregorian Copy Share Image
The thing I like most about books is that anybody can afford them. They have an innate valuelessness. — Chris Ware Copy Share Image
I was a pretentious child. I grew up without a television. I read a lot of books and I loved Shakespeare. Still… — Emily Watson Copy Share Image
“In literature there is no such thing as a pure thought; in literature, thought is always the handmaid of emotion.” — John Middleton Murry Copy Share Image
It’s as much a writer’s concern, who is responsible to his readers for all the books written before him as well as… — Ilya Ehrenburg Copy Share Image
“Maybe Heaven will be a library and then I might get to finish my ‘to-read’ list.” — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
