“Don Vicente, a monk of the Convent of Pobla in Aragon, murdered several collectors in order to get their best books;” — Harold Rabinowitz Copy Share Image
“Some of the best books published every year are penned by talented writers whose identity the public will never know.” — Richard Castle Copy Share Image
I don't think I compete with myself by trying to make a better book. I don't know that that's possible. I mean,… — Jon J Muth Copy Share Image
People don't really talk about falling in love anymore. And yet falling in love is the great engine that drives all the… — Joanna Coles Copy Share Image
It is true that the discerning intellect of the world is always much in advance of the creative, so that there are… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a… — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
It's the same with this idea of a literate public, and also of a democracy in which people have access to and… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self-… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“The best part of books was that, at the end, everything made sense. No matter what happened in between the front and… — Sinead MacDughlas Copy Share Image
I say that glorious prose is a fine and laudable thing, but without an enthralling story, it's just so much verbal tapioca.… — Jean Hanff Korelitz Copy Share Image
“You can possess a book without really owning it, though. Beyond ownership in a commercial or legal sense, there’s ownership of an… — Blake Morrison Copy Share Image
The best books, they don’t talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you’d always thought about, but… — Tommy Wallach Copy Share Image
Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants,… — William Ellery Channing Copy Share Image
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
At the close of my visit, my Hawaiian friends urged me strongly to publish my impressions and experiences, on the ground that… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
I did an audiobook for 'Rough Crossings,' which I thought was one of the best books I had published. But it was… — Simon Schama 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
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it.… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Create a personal learning agenda. Identify important skills and areas of expertise for your success and go to school: get the best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
