“It is a very strange feeling when one is loving a clock that is to every one of your class of living… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
Reading develops cognitive skills. It trains our minds to think critically and to question what you are told. This is why dictators… — Karin Slaughter Copy Share Image
The new contract between writers and readers is one I'm prepared to sign up to. I've met some fascinating people at events… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Who can know when his world is going to change? . . . Who would suspect that in the morning a different… — William Goldman Copy Share Image
Matter of fact, I watch tons of tube, but I also read tons of books so I can figure out what's true… — Rodman Philbrick Copy Share Image
No strict schedule, but I write nearly daily in my journal. Sometimes I go back and pull out things to give to… — Marie Bradby Copy Share Image
I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
Religious law is like the grammar of language. Any language isgoverned by such rules; otherwise it ceases to be a language. But… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
“The book of Judges shows us that the Bible is not a “Book of Virtues”; it is not full of inspirational stories.… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
We live in an age of science and of abundance. The care and reverence for books as such, proper to an age… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
“So much we once coveted. So much That would have saved us, but lived, Instead, its own quick span, returning To uselessness… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
“The boy was in the Hitler Youth, he says, and he was reading a book one day, he was really enjoying it,… — Ali Smith Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of the Pixar movies, and Ed Catmull, who wrote a book about his experiences producing them, talks about… — David Copperfield Copy Share Image
I believe that by releasing "passing interest/low keepsake-value literature" from the burden of physicality, you are actually releasing the words from their… — John Hodgman Copy Share Image
“Realization: We render time by stitching together moments--flipping pages in the book of consciousness presents a continuous stream. Our senses too slow… — David David Katzman Copy Share Image
I hate to express political ideas directly in a book. I don't want my books to be seen as an expression of… — Abdellah Taia Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked to autograph a copy of 'Nudge,' the book I wrote with Cass Sunstein, the Harvard law professor, I sign… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
After writing 'The Omnivore's Dilemma,' I wanted to write a book that got past the choir, that got to people who didn't… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Do not accept anything simply because it has been said by your teacher, or because it has been written in your sacred… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“I studied Jax, becoming more intrigued by him every minute we spent together. He was like a book, where each chapter picks… — Katie Kacvinsky Copy Share Image
When a language begins to teem with books, it is tending to refinement; as those who undertake to teach others must have… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am aware there are books that instruct you on how to manipulate the market, stocks and people... they might even help… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“Literature was not promulgated by a pale and emasculated critical priesthood singing their litanies in empty churches - nor is it a… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for… — Jesse James Garrett Copy Share Image
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“She remained on the steps, waiting for Papa, watching the stray ash and the corpse of collected books. Everything was sad. Orange… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
The thing that I prefer, when I'm working on a book, is to do a seven-day week, because it's easy to lose… — Donald E. Westlake Copy Share Image
I suppose every old scholar has had the experience of reading something in a book which was significant to him, but which… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
If American literature has a few heroes, Miller is one of them. He refused to name names at the McCarthy hearings, and… — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
“And my own feelings? Shame. For I had lied. Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued Jane… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“The narrative fallacy, Bezos explained, was a term coined by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in his 2007 book The Black Swan to describe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What works in a story is very different than what works in cinema. For example, dialogue in books: If you translate it… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Always have a book to read, instead of indulging in vain conversation. Strive to learn English…Remember this, that you cannot commit some… — Christmas Evans Copy Share Image
Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie. I say this as someone who would… — Daniel Clowes Copy Share Image
“If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows and the… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
There are great science books that were conceived as books. Feynman's famous introductory lectures in physics, which have a beginning and an… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what… — Jimmy Carl Black Copy Share Image
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
