Books are meat and medicine and flame and flight and flower steel, stitch, cloud and clout, and drumbeats on the air. — Gwendolyn Brooks Copy Share Image
I, alone, could never have produced this book. I say this mainly in case there are lawsuits. — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
I finished all the math books by third grade and most of the reading books. So I was considered disruptive. — Tyrone Hayes Copy Share Image
Back at his chair he cannot remember what he was reading. He feels the books beside him to find the one that… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
The pleasures of writing correspond exactly to the pleasures of reading — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I go to books and to nature as the bee goes to a flower, for a nectar that I can make into… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“To her, writing is making stock and reading is sipping broth, but only the spoken word is the full roasted chicken.” — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
I loved reading and writing, and teaching was the most exalted profession I could imagine. — Frank McCourt Copy Share Image
“In order to pronounce a book bad it is not enough to discover that it elicits no good response from ourselves, for… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Computers allow us to squeeze the most out of everything, whether it's Google looking up things, so I guess that tends to… — Buzz Aldrin Copy Share Image
“The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of… — A.E. Housman Copy Share Image
Much depends upon when and where you read a book. In the five or six impatient minutes before the dinner is quite… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I've gotten to try on voices very different than my own, and I've become much more aware of structure than ever before.… — Achy Obejas Copy Share Image
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my… — Debra Messing Copy Share Image
Perhaps the greatest lesson [Huxley] learned from reading Carlyle was that real religion, that emotive feeling for Truth and Beauty, could flourish… — Adrian Desmond Copy Share Image
Early readers assumed the Book of Mormon people ranged up and down North and South America from upstate New York to Chili.… — Richard Bushman Copy Share Image
There's a culture war in this country. Americans in recent years, as you know, have become more secular. They don't go to… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
“Hear me now or regret it later: Everything you write must be read aloud. Once all the context items are in place,… — Jiro Adachi Copy Share Image
“But the thing that made it most interesting is what it had to say about books and religion. I love how Brooks… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
The Simpson's in Piccadilly has been turned into the largest bookstore in all of Europe! How can they fill it? All of… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
“Recognising such dimensions implicit to the reading experience can distract from the immediacy of our response; it can substitute literary archaeology for… — Ian Gregor Copy Share Image
Comic books are just a way to show a story. Then there are the movies, and television and exhibits like this that… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
I grew up in the spoken-word community. Before everybody had a home studio, or before we could get booked for shows, open… — Macklemore Copy Share Image
The fictional world seems larger, seems to have more dimension and richness when, for example, the protagonist from one novel you've read… — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image