Norman Mailer decocts matters of the first philosophical magnitude from an examination of his own ordure, and I am not talking about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you're lucky enough to have 70 years of literate adulthood, and if you read one book every week, you're still only… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
I don't really read Stephen King - I just can't read scary things because it stays with me too long - but… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
There comes a moment which you must decide whether to skip the page or close the book, it's your decision. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole reason I like these virus movies is because I read 'The Stand' when I was in junior high and thought… — Julie Plec Copy Share Image
When I write a novel, every word is mine. I welcome suggestions from my editor, but in the end, I make all… — Louis Sachar Copy Share Image
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I was reading 'The Mystic Eye' by Sadhguru of Isha Yoga Centre. I couldn't keep the book down and finished it in… — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
It is quite too common a practice, both in readers and the more superficial class of critics, to judge a book by… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Having a sense of fun in books is a huge, huge deal, because a lot of times kids - even me when… — Dav Pilkey Copy Share Image
And sometimes then he sat with us for an hour or so, sharing our limbo, listening while I read. Books from any… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Early gay novels such as 'Giovanni's Room' and 'The City and the Pillar' were not nearly as important to me as Isherwood's… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
Regular readers will know that curries are my favourite thing, and I wanted to go back to the start and really research… — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
I already read everything. I read poems and plays and novels and newspapers and comic books and magazines. I read tins in… — Janice Galloway Copy Share Image
I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
One of the comments that we've heard that has really blessed us is people have been driven back to the book of… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
“Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Nice tights," I snorted. Or I tried to snort, anyway. I'm not exactly sure how, though people in books are always doing… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.” — Judith Schalansky Copy Share Image
“But Moby-Dick is the explanation of America. It’s not just a novel. It is a book of prophecy. It is the book.… — Robert Stone Copy Share Image
Mary Matalin and James Carville have given me more hope when it comes to love and relationships than any romance book or… — Meghan McCain Copy Share Image
Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
He's fiery, he's competitive, ... I think it was an unfair booking, and Wayne reacts like this against injustice. — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
When a woman gets dressed up to go out at night, she wants to give 50% away, and hold the rest back.… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
I think everyone is introduced to the Peter Pan story when they're very young. Everyone has read the book and watched the… — Charlie Rowe Copy Share Image
All "little" magazines have the luxury of thinking the reader is the same person as their editors. — William Whitworth Copy Share Image
Nothing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I have always wanted to be a published author. I write baseball books because I love the sport. — Jonathan Weeks Copy Share Image
They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas. — Emil Ruder Copy Share Image
Charles Darwin wrote a famous book in 18 gibberish. And that book was an interesting book, cuz it was called "Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-Monkey-You" — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
“We should definitely write a book – The Psychology of Presidents: A guide for dealing with the democratically elected and delusional.” — Paul Mathews Copy Share Image
Read all books in the world, it will not make you wise. Only wise ones are those who know, four letters that… — Kabir Copy Share Image
“She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.” — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
I blurbed a nice book, not at all like my book 'The Big Oyster,' called 'The Essential Oyster.' I blurbed a pretty… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I think the people who would be the least interested in my work would be people who read lots of comic books. — Harvey Pekar Copy Share Image
Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The books could be completely worthless, and things we don't even read now could be considered the most important books. — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Book tours are excellent things, and one is lucky to get to go on one, but they have a way of leeching… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
You learn how to be book smart in school, but you better not forget that you also need to be street smart. — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
