The very cheapness of literature is making even wise people forget that if a book is worth reading, it is worth buying.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
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My daughter is reading various Young Adult vampire stuff, and I ask her, "Is there even a bad vampire in the story?"… — Mike Mignola Copy Share Image
“What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I have always been a reader; I have read at every stage of my life and there has never been a time… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
Written on the body is a secret code only visible in certain lights: the accumulations of a lifetime gather there. In places… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I think that Oprah's on a mission to improve the lives of the average American in various ways. And one of them… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
We started out on the Internet, so I've been reading what people had to say about stuff since we were getting mean… — Andy Samberg Copy Share Image
When I was done reading the poem, everyone was quiet. A very sad quiet. But the amazing thing was that it wasn’t… — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
“...begged them as we read our literary texts, only to listen. To wrench open - it takes an effort of will -… — Rick Gekoski Copy Share Image
We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God, who will thwart our plans and frustrate our ways time… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Reading about people who were so truly voiceless and powerless - Liberian child soldiers, Sudanese refugees, and, especially, Kashmiri women whose husbands… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
“Many scholars forget, it seems to me, that our enjoyment of the great works of literature depends more upon the depth of… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Miss Butterworth and the Mad Baron,” Sebastian said approvingly. “Excellent choice.” “You have read this?” Alexei asked. “It’s not as good as… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
My readers often say to me, 'If we lived next door to each other, we'd be best friends.' That is precisely what… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The more readings a novel has, even contradictory, the better. In journalism, you talk about what you know; you have provided yourself… — Rosa Montero Copy Share Image
In New York I'd go to the movies three or four times a week. Here I've upped it to six or seven,… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
When Wikileaks came out... never heard of Wikileaks, never heard of it. When Wikileaks came out, all I was just saying is,… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
“My parents weren't interested in recommending books to me. Reading was an act of revolution, therefore I was expected to find my… — Ianthe Brautigan Copy Share Image
The term 'epitaph' itself means 'something to be spoken at a burial or engraved upon a tomb.' When an epitaph is a… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
I'm sure we would not have had men on the Moon if it had not been for Wells and Verne and the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
As an author, I don't really think too much about being a celebrity. It's not like being a movie star or a… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
It came to my mind that in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, in Indian spiritual literature, and in the Bhagavad Gita, and… — Fred Alan Wolf Copy Share Image
“A deaf composer's like a cook who's lost his sense of taste. A frog that's lost its webbed feet. A truck driver… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
We wanted to hear from viewers about why they watch or participate in call-ins on C-SPAN, ... Viewers of all ages and… — Brian Lamb Copy Share Image
You don’t want a general houseworker, do you? Or a traveling companion, quiet, refined, speaks fluent French entirely in the present tense?… — Dorothy Parker Copy Share Image
One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are… — Matthew Tobin Anderson Copy Share Image
I can't imagine a home without an overflow of books. The point of books is to have way too many but to… — Louise Erdrich 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
I seemed to have spent the whole time either reading, which I loved, or laughing, which I love, or fooling about, which… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
Whenever you write music, you want it to touch people on a certain level. I mean, I've been reading tweets about 'Troublemaker'… — Olly Murs Copy Share Image
There are times it's the only thing I want and I wonder how I'll ever go back to the world of noise… — Eric Lange Copy Share Image
“I used to be afraid about what people might say or think after reading what I had written. I am not afraid… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
There was a moment when I was getting death threats and bullshit via the Internet, so I was being a little more… — Jay Reatard Copy Share Image
“When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic yearning for the lost pleasure… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
I didn't care for most of the books I was being asked to read in school. I started reading like crazy right… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
It is one thing to be a man's wife - quite another to be the mother of his children. In fact, once… — Kelly Corrigan Copy Share Image
One of the commonest mistakes and one of the costliest is thinking that success is due to some genius, some magic -… — Maltbie Davenport Babcock Copy Share Image
