Gandhi seldom taught with the help of books. He did not want to paralyse the pupils' intellect by loading it with book… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great dividing line between books that are made to be read and books that are made to be bought is not… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Younger than Morini and Pelletier, Espinoza studied Spanish literature, not German literature, at least for the first two years of his university… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
Back in '86, '87, Steve Williams and Paul Davis and me were reading a book by Robert Hess called 'Eat to Win,'… — Tony Adams Copy Share Image
I can understand pulling a book whose contents have been questioned - after all, false information has a way of sticking in… — Maria Konnikova Copy Share Image
Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father… — Dick Bruna Copy Share Image
I knew that, when writing a book, you're not constrained by a budget. You're not constrained by what you can do, in… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Days in the past cover up little by little those that preceded them and are themselves buried beneath those that follow them.… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Steiner has here transformed the vaporous conceptions of his life, the vapors of what never was and never will be, from their… — Nick Tosches Copy Share Image
“It was terrifying, liberating, and risky. But one day I woke up and decided to try it." (On writing her first novel,… — Amy Hill Hearth Copy Share Image
“There is also a context constituted by the formation of the literature into a larger whole, a context that is literary and/or… — R.W.L. Moberly Copy Share Image
Black children need to see their lives reflected in the books they read. If they don't, they won't feel welcome in the… — Valerie Wilson Wesley Copy Share Image
In the university library my father helped lead, as the Associate Director of Libraries from '60 to '82, I spent hours and… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
“I will remember your small room, the feel of you, the light in the window, your records, your books, our morning coffee,… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Libraries for me have always had a cathedral-like ambiance, a hushed sanctuary where learning is revered, where we the people elevate books… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
The problem of knowledge is that there are many more books on birds written by ornithologists than books on birds written by… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
If I had my way books would not be written in English, but in an exceedingly difficult secret language that only skilled… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
There is nothing more dreadful to an author than neglect; compared with which reproach, hatred, and opposition are names of happiness; yet… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Scooping up the dress, I slip it over my head, and as it cascades to the floor. I suck my stomach for… — Alexandra Potter Copy Share Image
“I got wiring loose inside my head I got books that I never ever read I got secrets in my garden shed… — Steven Wilson Copy Share Image
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The digital age is for me in many ways about temporal wounding. It's really messed up our ontological clocks. In the digital… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
“So…you're not going to tell me what they mean? C'mon. What's the Hob? Why Forks?” When I stand, I switch to my… — Anne Eliot Copy Share Image
“And then—the languid hands dropped the uncut book. War, revolution, an absurd marriage, being chosen as the “dictator of his home town,”… — Teffi Copy Share Image
“If you take one thing from this book let it be this: even the dying are alive. If you're a reader with… — Hannah Hodgson Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I lived in this small town way out in the country. We had three TV channels and… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
It doesn't make sense to call ourselves ugly, because we don't really see ourselves. We don't watch ourselves sleeping in bed, curled… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Tears upon tears splat on to the lined pages in my hands as I read about a nightmare come true. Quickly, I… — Cat Patrick Copy Share Image
“- Do you have books? - Books on what? - any thing, comets, gravity, black holes ... - Yeah, I've got Shakespeare,… — Conversation Copy Share Image
Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will… — Marc Andreessen Copy Share Image
I would like to carve my novel in a piece of wood. My characters—I would like to have them heavier, more three-dimensional… — Georges Simenon Copy Share Image
“~I gripped the knife even tighter. Far off in the distance, I could still hear them speaking, but only one thing was… — Jennifer Malone Wright Copy Share Image
I know I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
Reading is important. Books are important. Librarians are important. (Also, libraries are not child-care facilities, but sometimes feral children raise themselves among… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I'm done with books for a while. They take a lot of time, and they take a lot out of you. Maybe… — Brian Welch Copy Share Image
I think readers are always patient. Look at the 'Harry Potter' series. Some have given up on this generation of kids as… — Dave Gibbons Copy Share Image
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
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