“I went into Grace’s den and picked up a book I’d bought from Amazon, Man’s Search for Meaning. It had been written… — Scott Pratt Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say design has become strictly functional. A lot of cars these days look downright comic book to me, and the… — Scott Westerfeld Copy Share Image
“What is more important to a library than anything else -- than everything else -- is the fact that it exists." [… — Archibald MacLeish Copy Share Image
As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who… — John Millington Synge Copy Share Image
There are things the story must have or else look incomplete. And these will almost automatically present themselves. When they don't, you… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
Movies are not scripts - movies are films; they're not books, they're not the theatre. It's a completely different discipline, it exists… — Nicolas Roeg Copy Share Image
Here, then, is the point at which I see the new mission of the librarian rise up incomparably higher than all those… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
A comic will always be more 'personal' than a DVD or CD, both of which require electronic 'players' to decode their content.… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“Choosing a book is so gratifying, it’s worth dragging out the process, starting even before finishing the current one. As the final… — Pamela Paul Copy Share Image
I had - and continued to have - great fun exploring the Revelation Space universe, but it was always clear to me… — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“I judge the quality of my work by the quality of the people that follow it. If my readers are the most… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
You may rely on it that you have the best of me in my books, and that I am not worth seeing… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A blessed companion is a book! A book that, fitly chosen, is a life-long friend. A book — the unfailing Damon to… — Douglas William Jerrold Copy Share Image
“In books there were people who were always agreeable or tender, and delighted to do things that made one happy, and who… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
There are people who lie like a great painter painting a masterpiece or a great author writing his or her greatest novel.… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
It may come as a surprise to people, but I'm actually quite boring and normal. What do I do? I read books.… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
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“There is an impression abroad that literary folk are fast readers. Wine tasters are not heavy drinkers. Literary people read slowly because… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
He that loves a book will never want a [close] friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study,… — Isaac Barrow Copy Share Image
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“She loved books. She loved them with her senses and her intellect. They way they looked and smelled; the way they felt… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“You look like you belong in a bad comic book,” I told him cheerfully. ---------------------- “What did the Drakes do that’s got… — Alyxandra Harvey Copy Share Image
“where antichrist is, there is tyrannical government, imposing laws upon the consciences of God's people; where antichrist is, there is idolatry, superstition… — Various Copy Share Image
“More, much more, will happen after this. Things involving maps and books and true love and tragedy, tragedy like you wouldn't believe.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Get Up is basically the book I wanted to have my first year of sobriety. I wish someone had given me this… — Bucky Sinister Copy Share Image
Mistresses are like books; if you pore upon them too much, they doze you and make you unfit for company; but if… — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
“A nice thing about children's books, though I'm probably alone in this opinion among other people who write and publish them, is… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
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“Vic smelled the vast vault filled with books before she saw it, because her eyes required time to adjust to the cavernous… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of… — Zia Haider Rahman Copy Share Image
“Part of what makes the book bizzare is that Whitman, because he wants to stand for everyone, because he wants to be… — Ben Lerner Copy Share Image
In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none… — Roger Ascham Copy Share Image
“The first duty of an Author is --- I conceive --- a faithful allegiance to Truth and Nature; his second, such a… — Juliet Barker Copy Share Image
I think that the mark of a great book is that it will meet you wherever you're at and you'll feel and… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
“Breath (from the book Blue Bridge) Whispering to myself With every step I take, Trying out names, for I know There is… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
We live through books; we have adventures in them, we lead alternative lives through them. We expand our memories through them. And… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Remember that the truth within yourself will always be greater than the truth found in these pages. These stories are here to… — Andrew Kaufman Copy Share Image
As I stood with her on the platform - she impatient, tapping her foot, leaning forward to look down the tracks -… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
'The Giver' by Lois Lowry - I had to read this in school, and I fell in love with it. It was… — Anna Todd Copy Share Image
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