Half the time I pick up a book, that's what I'm trying to…

Whenever I pick up a book I think, "Tell me something I don't know."

— Stef Penney

“some quality time with a good book. Trying to”

— Susan Mallery

That was my fear, which is why when I was took over a book, I was always trying to tweak it a little bit…

— Todd McFarlane

I don't necessarily read everything. I read what I need to read to inspire the book I'm trying to finish.

— Erica Jong

I remember as a young child, during one of my frequent trips to the local library, spending hours looking at book after book trying…

— Daniel Tammet

In my book, I was trying to get into my own soul.

— Claire Bloom

“Meantime do you see me as still working on the book, still trying to answer such questions as: Is there any ultimate reality, external,…

— Malcolm Lowry

“It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying…

— Paul Acampora

“As regards any specific book, I'm trying primarily to tell a story, in the most effective way I can think of, the most moving,…

— William Faulkner

With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Sometimes when I pick up a book off the shelf, when I'm buying a new book to read, I'll look at all of them…

— Jennifer Carpenter

Everybody can't be Lil Wayne. Some of us have to pick up a book.

— Tyrann Mathieu

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

— Anonymous

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that…

— Ahmet Zappa

If you're going to pick a book and you want to base a system of government around it, why not 'Harry Potter?'

— Lewis Black