The truth is that even big collections of ordinary books distort space, as can readily be proved by anyone who has been… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Books have been vastly important in my life - as both a reader and a writer. I've learned that the great gift… — Bob Smith Copy Share Image
People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there… — John Polkinghorne Copy Share Image
“We’re all living in the shadow of that infamous icon, “The Proverbs 31 Woman,” whose life is so busy I wonder, when… — John Eldredge Copy Share Image
“In the library I search for a good book. We have many books, says Mrs. Rose, the librarian, and ALL of them… — Sally Murphy Copy Share Image
I think of tomorrow going shopping, hanging out with good friends and family and then I thought to myself if people find… — Maureen Renfro Copy Share Image
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Too many writers think that all you need to do is write well-but that's only part of what a good book is.… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“So,” he said after a minute. “I was thinking that afterward if you’re up for it, we could check out the post… — Miyoko Hikiji Copy Share Image
I'll always be reading a good book. I don't have, like, specific genre tastes or anything or things that I kind of… — Dylan O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Loving Sarah was like reading a particularly good book. That pressing and overwhelming need to just devour it as fast as possible… — Nadine Rose Larter Copy Share Image
“An awfulness was deep inside me, and I couldn't fight it; forced into submission and taken hostage by it, I could only… — Nick Miller Copy Share Image
“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember,… — Susan Allen Toth Copy Share Image
“Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient… — Multiple Copy Share Image
However much of time, labor, or other means it takes to establish a reputation, it frequently happens that it requires nearly as… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Well, you know what's wrong with the world today? People done gone and put their Bible's away. They're living by the law… — Charlie Daniels Copy Share Image
Thinking, not for the first time, that life should come with a trapdoor. Just a little exit hatch you could disappear through… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
If you want to write something completely unique, you will probably fail or at best write something without redeeming value. The mind… — Janet Morris Copy Share Image
“If a person reads a good book—they become permanently changed. They can’t even help it. They can’t unlearn what they’ve learned. It… — Loretta Lost Copy Share Image
Oh for a book and a shady nook, Either indoors or out, with the green leaves whispering overhead, or the street cries… — John Wilson Copy Share Image
“We would be worse than we are without the good books we have read, more conformist, not as restless, more submissive, and… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
“When we think of the masterpieces that nobody praised and nobody read, back there in the past, we feel an impatient superiority… — Randall Jarrell Copy Share Image
“This consists in not taking a book into one’s hand merely because it is interesting the great public at the time —… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
It doesn't matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The TV Junkie lives his life for television. Like a religious nut, he follows everything that is going on in the media… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life," said Simone de Beauvoir. "I want to be a woman and to be… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Ever since I was young, 14 or 15, I wondered if you could write a book that combined the visceral thrill of… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
I haven't had a chance to pick up a good book in a long time, because I've been either reading scripts or… — Justin Theroux Copy Share Image
“It has been said that when we pray, we speak to God; when we read, He speaks to us. Keeping this in… — William A. Carroll Copy Share Image
I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“If I can't read, if I can't make a simple Indian pudding, then I don't see the point in living much more,… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
One can never read too little of bad, or too much of good books: bad books are intellectual poison; they destroy the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I didn’t actually have to write a thing because the act of reading was my writing. I thought of myself as a… — E.L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
...so now, Mrs. Ramsay thought, she could return to that dream land, that unreal but fascinating place, the Manning's drawing-room at Marlow… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I'm no crazier than anyone else. I love life the same as most people - what else have we got that's real?… — Michael Jarvis Copy Share Image
“The pleasures of my life here are simple – simple, inexpensive and democratic. A warm hill of Marmande tomatoes on a roadside… — William Boyd Copy Share Image
I Need a Good Book I need a good story. I need a good book. The kind that explodes Off the shelf.… — John Lithgow Copy Share Image
“I live to enjoy life by the littlest things, feeling the grass between my toes, breathing fresh air, watching the wind sway… — Marigold Wellington Copy Share Image
The best books are not read even by those who are called good readers. What does our Concord culture amount to? There… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
