“The first book to use the term ‘science fiction’ in the title was also a vintage paperback, an anthology called The Pocket… — Pradeep Sebastian Copy Share Image
Metaphor isn't just a fancy turn of speech. It shapes our thoughts and feelings, reaches out to grasp new experience, and even… — James Richardson Copy Share Image
This is the big reason most humorists fail. Drunks don't read books. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I spent three days a week for 10 years educating myself in the public library, and it's better than college. People should… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Strictly' is the most successful reality format in the world - it's in the 'Guinness Book of Records' - going to 38… — Craig Revel Horwood Copy Share Image
One June evening, when the orchards were pink-blossomed again, when the frogs were singing silverly sweet in the marshes about the head… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Books never cease to astonish me. When I was a child, I knew--in the incontestable way that children know things--that God was… — Martha Cooley Copy Share Image
In ordinary detective novels you never see the consequences of what happens in a story in the next book. That you do… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I made a wedding planning book and a whole double page is dedicated to the dogs. — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
I wasn't seeing black girls in the books I was assigned to read at my school. I was tired of only reading… — Marley Dias Copy Share Image
Sara Scherr and Jeff McNeely have given us a thoughtful, sensible book about a topic of great importance to the world. There… — Ismail Serageldin Copy Share Image
“What is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift, and why? Or what are one to three books that… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all. — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
I was impressed for the ten thousandth time by the fact that literature illuminates life only for those to whom books are… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
There are no books in this world that everybody must read, but only books that a person must read at a certain… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
About 120 million of us place the big bang 2,500 years after the Babylonians and Sumerians learned to brew beer. If our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I… — Carl Hiaasen Copy Share Image
And the Bible is not primarily a book of history. It is "His story," the story of God. — Adrian Rogers Copy Share Image
The book smelled dusty and old but also carried a sweet tang, a hint of something inviting. She opened to the first… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“When I saw "Ulysses" on Georgie's bedside table and Tom Finch's name written on it in a scrawl so like my old… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate… — Rebecca Stead Copy Share Image
When the 2008 victory of Barack Obama and the defeat of grumpy old John McCain began looking, um, inevitable, I started fielding… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
Let us read the Bible without the ill-fitting colored spectacles of theology, just as we read other books, using our judgment and… — Luther Burbank Copy Share Image
I loathe people who say, 'I always read the ending of the book first.' That really irritates me, It's like someone coming… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
